Teasing Out The Truth
September 5, 2008
Dear Vanessa,
Lemme guess, you got question number 9 wrong.
Kisses,
Elaine
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Dear Readers,
Non-vegans cannot be trusted when it comes to criticism of animal rights organizations. They are clearly biased. Vanessa and her crew at Feministing ban dissenting opinions like mine. They won’t even listen to the pro-animal, sex-pos feminists.
Moreover, they completely ignore the power they have and the role they play in sustaining a sexist society. There’s a point where reproducing sexist ads for the purpose of sharing, teaching, and analyzing them for feminist theory simply becomes marketing the ads themselves. For example, I guarantee more Feministing readers clicked the link and learned something from PETA than wrote PETA a letter asking them to use fewer nude or nearly nude campaigns. In fact, I bet if you did a poll of Feministing readers you’d find out that a large portion of them are sexist and/or misogynist men who simply use the site to help find materials they can get off on. They don’t read the analysis, they just look at the pictures. Blog posts like Vanessa’s merely perpetuate the problem: the fact that PETA’s nude campaigns get the most attention. If you want to smash the patriarchy, you’ve got to recognize the power you have and you’ve got to use it responsibly.
If you want to read real criticism of PETA, read it from someone who isn’t anti-animal. I have suggestions. Some throw out the baby with the bathwater and claim PETA is entirely bad (much like Vanessa and Jessica do):
But others have more reasoned approaches that criticize specific PETA campaigns, not the entire organization:
- http://vegansofcolor.wordpress.com/
- http://www.drstevebest.org/
- http://www.friendsofanimals.org/
- http://www.animalrightscommunity.com/abolitionists/index.php
- http://www.postpunkkitchen.com/forum/index.php
- Ryan McRenolds: How Animal Rights Advocates Should Handle PETA
- myself ;)
Obviously, PETA is not all bad. They produce and share things like this:
and this:
Love,
Elaine
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I agree. We may dislike some of the things various animal organizations do, but at the end of the day, we’re still all on the same side. And a Peta Web site is what got me to go vegetarian and start learning about animal rights, and I’m never going to forget that.