Posts Tagged ‘PETA’
Sexy Meat Faces Frying Pan
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals may have a monopoly on sexualizing cuts of meat, but it takes a Czech surrealist artist to really romanticize steak. Because I am who I am, I can’t help but analyze the traditional mating rituals (and the tragic ending) on display between two cuts of beef in Jan Švankmajer’s 1988 short, Zamilované Maso, or Meat Love (via Pukeimmediately).
A run-down of their brief (and ill-fated) courtship, after the jump.
Pam Anderson and PETA Release Another “Banned” Video
So, Pamela Anderson’s new commercial for PETA, which features the former pin-up screening airline passengers for “prohibited” leather, fur, and animal products, won’t be shown on the CNN’s Airport Network. According to the New York Post, “PETA planned to debut the spot tomorrow at all three Gotham-area airports, and later this fall in the other 45 major airports serviced by CNN. But the network wrote to PETA saying it’s ‘particularly sensitive because children make up part of the demographic in airports.’” PETA, banned? You don’t say.
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Sex Up Your PETA Sea Kitten
When I first learned of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals’ new “Save the Sea Kittens” ad campaign, I was confused—and not because re-branding one species of animal (fish) as another (kittens) doesn’t make any fucking sense. No, I was confused because PETA’s campaign just doesn’t seem overtly sexist enough! There are no Playboy models, lettuce bikinis, or shrink-wrapped naked ladies to objectify in this campaign—just some cute fish you can dress up in costumes in an attempt to humanize them.
I know. I was suspicious, too.
Thankfully, PETA supporters accustomed to sneaking a bit of lasciviousness into their animal rights advocacy can dress their cute fish in a variety of super sexy fish costumes. Ta-da:
Huffington Post Sexism Goes Green
Hey, this isn’t the exploitation I signed up for!
The Huffington Post has finally discovered the porthole through which its sexist entertainment content can jump off of the Entertainment page and onto more explicitly political verticals. What is this valuable new discovery which suddenly makes sexy naked women so politically relevant? It starts with a P, ends with an Eople For the Ethical Treatment of Animals, and it has been pulling this liberal sexist bullshit for years.
PETA Encourages Obamas to Neuter Neutered Dog
PETA has written a letter to the Obamas asking them to neuter “Bo,” Malia and Sasha’s new designer Portuguese water dog. A White House rep responded immediately, informing PETA that Bo has already been neutered, of course, because Barack Obama does not need a famed animal cruelty organization to school him in the conventional wisdom of dog ownership.
It’s clear that now that there’s an animal at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., PETA will be able to target all its campaigns specifically at the President, using Bo as a scapedog for whatever issue it would like to further at the moment. Hey—at least it’s better than using hot chicks.
Expect a lot more press releases that tangentially refer to Bo before launching into a thinly veiled press release as to why the White House needs to employ vegan mouse traps, or whatever. In this edition, Bo helps us understand that purebred dogs are “disquieting,” that the overpopulation problem won’t benefit from monetary donations “unless you pour in as much as the Iraq war has cost us,” and animals are just like humans, “except that they are in a different type of body and have a somewhat different culture.”
The full PETA letter is after the jump.
What Does Clooney Taste Like?
Who hasn’t wanted to sample the essence of manliness infused in an excellent source of non-animal protein? Everybody!
As it turns out, all you have to do to get George Clooney’s attention is steal one of his sweat-soaked gym towels and threaten to extract its flavor to market as a celeb-flavored vegetarian alternative. If you thought PETA’s oversexed ads were hard to stomach, consider CloFu: Tofu flavored by Clooney’s sweat glands that would “spare animals from being killed for the table.”
After some hippie recovered Clooney’s discarded towel and offered it up for a PETA fundraiser, PETA President Ingrid Newkirk “immediately thought of using his perspiration for bean curd.”
Is that vegan? Whatever. Newkirk actually wrote Cloon a letter asking for his permission to use his flavor, and Clooney actually replied.
He said no. “As a mammal, I’m offended,” he said.
