The Onion on PETA
I would never have really understood this if I had seen it with out spending the time I do here.
Advocacy Group Decries PETA's Inhumane Treatment Of Women
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Haha. I like "PETA'S" response. Pretty accurate.
I am appalled. This time they have taken it too far over the top. "I'd rather be raped then eat meat?" I don't think so. I mean it was bad enough that they would strip them naked to do photo shoots and that they would put them outside in bikinis to prove their point (never really understood the purpose of that they could dress then up as whatever animal instead they put them in bikinis?) anyways. Oh and "we won't stop until every animal is treated better than women?" WHAT THE FUCK? I'm sorry, I used to be a vegetarian but this is absolutely unacceptable. What can we do about this? Is there any way to stop this at all?
I'm pretty sure that those were jokes on behalf of The Onion. The Onion is making fun of how women's groups react to the "inhumane" treatment of women.
Actually, I thought it was making fun of the absurdity of PETA's marketing campaign...
I thought the same thing.
Yup. The Onion is satirical -- they're making fun of how PETA objectifies women and puts animal "rights" above all other priorities.
I'm a vegetarian, but PETA's sexist ads really drive me insane.
Both. It's The Onion.
They're making fun of PETA's sexist campaigning, and of anti-PETA groups for acting like PETA models are dumb animals who aren't choosing to be doing them.
I think The Onion is making fun of both sides here.
Oh I know that the onion is being satirical. I am appalled at PETA, especially with the new rape campaign, I thought I was going to blow a gasket when I saw one of the bilboards for it hanging over the interstate wnere I live. Anyways though, I still want it to stop, at least take down the damn bilboard.
Wait, are you saying that PETA actually has a campaign that says "I'd rather get raped than eat meat"...?
Because I think what everyone here was saying and thinking was that that was a made up ad campaign by The Onion people to highlight PETA's absurdity.
If they actually have a campaign like that...that's probably the worst one I've every heard of coming out of PETA, and that's saying a lot.
I haven't seen any PETA billboards, but Google doesn't bring anything up other than references to that Onion video.
I've heard other rumblings about it but I'm not 100% positive. I know that they have done campaigns claiming that women would rather be beaten than eat meat, it was around the superbowl a few years ago and it was only shown on ESPN. I only knew about it because I was doing a fundraiser on superbowl sunday and where we were hosting our fundraiser had the television turned onto the pre-game on ESPN and the add appeared on there. Which really, does it matter? I am appalled enough at the campaigns they do otherwise.
Unless it's just beginning right now (and probably even in that case) you'd have heard more than rumblings.
Didn't you say that you saw a billboard for it?
I am appalled at PETA, especially with the new rape campaign, I thought I was going to blow a gasket when I saw one of the bilboards for it hanging over the interstate wnere I live.
It definitely matters. It's the difference between using sex to sell your product/values and using rape. Using naked and consenting women to sell your products may perpetuate objectification, but it is not nearly on the same level as saying that the model wants to be raped.
And could you give me details on the "I'd rather be beaten" campaign?
It's called satire
The Onion is a satirical publication - they are satirizing PETA for it's sexist ad campaigns.
To be fair, as others said above, the Onion is making fun of both sides, as they usually do.
I think the best picture I ever saw was a guy who was with Friends Of Animals protesting a Lettuce Lady handing out veggie chicken burgers for KFC, his sign said "Lettuce Respect Women And Animals"
I'm pretty sure the main target of the satire here is the women's groups. It's the framing.
How so?