Nudity Rules: Opinions Vary on Naked PETA Ads
PETA’s on a mission to bring naked women (where is the male nudity?), who are anti-fur, to the masses. Dozens of female celebrities have posed nude for the animal organizations “I’d rather go naked than wear fur” campaign. We’ve seen the skin of girl group Danity Kane, Eva Mendes, Joanna Krupa, and, most recently, Khloe Kardashian, just to name a few.
With the promotion of this latest particularly in-your-face plump rump, opinions have been flying, debating the morals behind using sex to sell your idea. Here are the four different standpoints:
1. Extreme Feminist: This group is angry and outspokenly so. Read one such opinion in Feministing’s PETA: Cause Objectifying Women Never Gets Old.
2. Leaning Toward Feminist: These folk look more toward praising the positive alternatives. My co-worker, Karen, left such a comment yesterday on my post about fffashion.
3. Carefree: This is me. We don’t care enough either way to voice opinions. If women want to have creepy men drooling over their naked pictures, so be it.
4. Extreme Support of Nudity: Many people love these ads and swear by the “sex sells” mantra. Veggie blogger Elaine Vignault is a good example: read her post Feministing: Because Some Feminists Never Grow Up and check out one of her blogs - Naked PETA.
And to be fair I should point out that Dennis Rodman and Jackass’s Steve-O have also posed nude for this campaign … but is that the best we can get?
December 19th, 2008 at 4:41 pm
I’m leaning toward number 4. Those women had the choice to take their clothes off for these ads, but the animals didn’t have the choice to have their skin peeled off.
December 30th, 2008 at 12:15 pm
Feministing is hardly angry. Outspoken? Yes. Intelligent? Yes. It’s a bit cliche to call smart, outspoken feminists angry. It’s possible to be fiercely feminist, vegetarian and happy too.
I agree with Feministing on this one. This kind of advertising is so lazy + outdated. I agree with the mission of PETA, but I can’t support this type of advertising.
January 4th, 2009 at 3:57 pm
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