Joss Stone's new PETA ad is boring
If you haven't noticed, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has a thing for naked ladies. In fact, as far as I can tell, there's nothing they love better than championing vegetarianism via the bare backside of their favorite meat-free celebrity.
The latest public figure to hop on the PETA bandwagon is Joss Stone, the 20-year-old soul singer that's been nominated for like 8,000 Grammy Awards. She was voted World's Sexiest Vegetarian back in 2005, so you'd think it'd be a no-brainer to have her alluring figure adorning the latest effort in this now well-trodden series of animal-friendly advertisements.
But she's just sitting there. With clothes on. Yawn.
To be honest, I'm not sure how to take PETA's nudey ads, as saving cows and chickens -- while a noble cause -- doesn't really seem like a good reason to participate in the media's much-bemoaned representation of women as nothing more than super-skinny eye candy (or, in this case, super-skinny vegetarian eye candy).
On the other hand, at least those were interesting to look at.
So, sorry Joss. Your music great, but this one gets a C+. At best.
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11-07-2007 @ 12:31AM
ben said...
Yawn, PETA always goes with something anti-feminist or some kind of holocaust trivialization or whatever. Their advertising is tacky, but it is also perfectly consistent with the dubious morality of this organization. PETA gets tons of press and money, but the actual benefit to animals is very, very debatable. If you _really_ care about animals, please give money and/or support to real organizations like ASPCA, the local shelter, or WWF. They are out there doing lots of good without all the self-aggrandizing fanfare that PETA so desperately craves.
PETA is for wacko animal-rights fundamentalists and empty-headed celebrities. You aren't either one of those, right?
ps. Animals rule.
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