misogynistic bullshit from PETA

[noamnety]

I guess animal rights is a good excuse to be sexist asshats.

"Hairy Kate and Trashley"

http://www.peta2.com/trollsens/?c=p22675

WTF.

(I'm sorry, I can't even get a coherent post together on this.)

[ThomCat]

1. I usually support PETA.

I agree with their goals. But that is really horrible. :(

[noamnety]

2. I agree with their goals, too.

And I can appreciate some street theater as a means to achieve those goals. But they've been increasingly relying on the exploitation of women, and now just flat out promoting hatred of women, as a means to an end.

It makes me think whoever is in charge is completely missing the big picture when it comes to how and why our culture embraces oppression and conquest.

[ThomCat]

3. That's a good point.

They're trying to use one approved form of domination to oppose (use as a substitute?) for another.

[Marie26]

4. Wow, that's disturbing.

I bailed on the game - it requires you to pick up various dead animals & drag them over to "Trashley", dripping blood along the way. :shudder: And it does make me wonder a little about PETA's focus on fur coats. Yes, fur coats are a bad thing, but they're also usually worn by women.

[Tumbulu]

5. My reading of the "skit" is different

I am in my 50's and I have watched with increased horror the young silly sexy girlie airhead act stuff all over the media. This skit is a good take on this portrayal. I do not defend the spoiled brat girl act, my feminism does not include fighting on behalf of infantile Paris Hilton wannabees. My goodness, this is who PETA is dealing with. I say let them have it. They deserve to be ridiculed, I do not see it as sexist but as calling an airhead cruelly complicit. And trying to shock them into the realization that silly consumer choices do matter on some level.

[noamnety]

6. Marie brought up a good point.

There's a reason PETA is picking on these women for wearing fur, instead of motorcycle gangs wearing leather. It's because women are looked down on in our society. It's basic bully mentality - pick on the weakest, the ones that others will rush to mock, once one person starts.

It's anti-woman to mock women by calling them "hairy" - it's not any better than freepers photoshopping a beard onto some lefty woman they dislike. It attacks women by attacking their ability to fit corporate/porn defined beauty standards, and rather than critiquing that sexy girlie airhead act you dislike, they are reinforcing it by doing this.

It's also anti-woman to mock women by calling them "trashy" - here, we have an attack against women not for their consumer habits (buying fur), but rather for their sexuality.

I have no interest in defending those specific women. I do have an interest in speaking out against organizations exploiting and promoting systemic misogyny. It's not an excusable tactic.

[Ellen Forradalom]

7. There's an exploitation of class resentment, too

In our society, fur coats symbolize of the richer classes more than biker leather jackets.

[defendandprotect]

8. Leather --- ??? Look at furniture showrooms --- !!!

We're slaughtering 12 million animals and more every day ---
a lot of "leather" to get rid of --- !!!

[defendandprotect]

9. I'm mainly with you in your analysis of this ---

but I do think the "portrayal" of the Olsen Twins is a bit of a mistake, as well ---
Not well thought out --- solving one problem by creating another --- !!!

However, I did sign the petition --- evidently the Olsen Twins have a clothing line?

I don't like the portrayal of them as "witches" --- and I think we need to go to PETA and comment
on this campaign ---

I shop at a L&T store and I can tell you that the aisles over the past 5 years have been full of animal fur!!!

It's disgusting!! And, it is all targeting young girls --- !!!


Like "leather" they have to get rid of this stuff somehow --- !!