The Onion Accuses PETA of Misogyny and it's Halfway True
Advocacy Group Decries PETA's Inhumane Treatment Of Women
It's about time someone took on the woman-haters of PETA. I speak of course of The Onion's exposé of the extreme animal rights group's misogynistic attitudes and practices. In the video above, a spokeswoman for "Women Deserve Better" talks about PETA's cruel practices like making them hold live animals against their naked bodies or putting them in shackels and sticking them in cages.
It does sound bad when it put it like that!
In addition to these ugly acts, PETA also makes them sit through long photo shoots and feeds them nut dogs. High crimes indeed. "Women Deserve Better" hope to rescue these "hundreds" of women, and take them to a farm where they can live out their lives in peace. Presumably away from vegetarian protesters.
Even though this particular video is a joke (really, PETA doesn't make the women do sexual stuff with raw vegetables, they apparently like to do it) there are plenty of legitimate examples of PETA's exploitation of women, like:
- all those protests with half-naked pregnant women in cages
- the Milk Gone Wild campaign
- when they asked Ben and Jerry's to replace the milk in ice cream with breast milk
- Want more? Check out this long list of PETA's bad ads over at Feministe
Nudity gets attention and traffic, so PETA's not going to stop exploiting women in the service of animal rights any time soon. I guess we'll just have to keep pointing out what jerks they are, while agreeing that going meat-free (occasionally) does have some environmental benefits.
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