Comments | citizenfemme: Tits and Activism, One Night Only Folks

citizenfemme

Tits and Activism, One Night Only Folks

Jan 28, 2007 00:15

Now I think some pretty numerous things about PETA as an organization. Say, as a protest point group; as shit disturbers; as propaganda-by-deed artists; as animal rights artsy bourgeois whores; as beneficiaries of too many decent, hard-working people's money; as representatives of the stupidest "influence campains"; as loud mouthed masochists who ( Read more... )

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demention January 28 2007, 22:18:17 UTC

I wondered about this video on an associational level. There's nudity, then factory farming. Clearly, factory farming can't be all that bad, if there's nudity involved!

You think she's gaunt?

citizenfemme January 29 2007, 17:04:21 UTC

Nar. I don't think she is gaunt. I was making a broader, slightly exaggerated statement about values of female/feminine beauty.

Oh, and I think I may have a video for you that depicts nude! tonight! girls! kind of lesbian hotsexaction right next to some decaying human corpses.

littleminx January 28 2007, 23:49:11 UTC

I tried to watch that video, but i was bothered by the awkwardness of her taking her clothes off... i couldn't do it..

Not a huge fan of PETA, i must say.. sometimes i feel that educating people should feel less... righteous? aggressive? I'm not sure which adjective fits best.

Also, absurdity must often be embraced... or you'll go mental. Plus it makes everything bananas. Mmm, blue.

I'd hardly call her 'gaunt' or 'thin'... angel_thane January 29 2007, 13:09:15 UTC

Man, that was about the dumbest video I've ever seen. No redeeming features - it looked like a failed audition tape from Naked News, who at least do it with a bit of style. That was just both pointless and unsexy. *sigh*

The problem with PETA (other than them being wrong) is that far from shining a light on the issues, they detract from them. Their campaigns never end up having people talk about fur, meat, or etc... but rather have people talking about PETA - great if you're a company trying to increase awareness of yourself; not so much if you're an organisation claiming to be trying to increase awareness of an issue.

That said, naked people is a damn sight better than mocking the holocaust.

Re: I'd hardly call her 'gaunt' or 'thin'... citizenfemme January 29 2007, 16:45:21 UTC

Nod. But she totally is at least on the skinnier side of things, if not a bit thin.

In semi-defense of a highly questionable topical campain, they didn't mock the holocaust, they made a very potent emotional argument for animal consumption. In some eyes, where they may have a more personal attachment to that entire horror, I'm sure that comparing eating animals to the willful genocide of humans to be completely insulting and therefore a mockery. That said, I'm not justifying their horror tactics, but I must say that I *feel* what they were trying to portray regardless. I see mammal (if not all animal) life as deserving of respect, and I have no doubt that farm animals feel pain and can suffer (needlessly).

Then again, I'm sure their "holocaust on a plate" campain did wonders for notoriety. I'm sure the masochist planners got off the day that campain was launched.

Re: I'd hardly call her 'gaunt' or 'thin'... angel_thane January 29 2007, 17:07:29 UTC

She's certainly not overweight, I'll give you that.

Mock was perhaps a bad word, but 'belittle' or 'minimised' are, IMNAAHO, entirely appropriate words for what they were doing to the holocaust.

Don't get me wrong, I also understand what they were trying to portray, and I know that it was not their intention to minimise the Holocaust - and that in their eyes, they probably didn't.

That said, it still showed a revolting contempt for human life, suffering, and atrocities. It really was much worse than getting Pamela Anderson naked.

Re: I'd hardly call her 'gaunt' or 'thin'... citizenfemme January 29 2007, 17:17:38 UTC

I'm not sure I follow how using a horror in human history to illustrate the emotional, and life-related, magnitude of the consumption of other animals demonstrates contempt for human life and such.

I mean, I draw hilarious parallels between aborted fetuses and rejection and/or between abortions and stomach pain and/or other tragic hilarious bits all the time. That is, if I honour the sentiment of the original horror, how do I desecrate it if I use it as a simile or metaphor?

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