guardian: guardiancomment: Honestly, Peta’s ads make me so angry I could stamp on a kitten. While eating a Big Mac and wearing chinchilla. If this has offended you, then I should make clear that my tongue is very firmly in my cheek. Which, funnily enough, was precisely the excuse Peta’s associate director of campaigns and outreach proffered when confronted with the criticism that the organisation’s latest ad, Boyfriend went vegan, all but condones physical violence within a relationship. After all, if sex sells, hard sex sells harder, and the sort of sex that leaves you hospitalised sells hardest of all. • Arwa Mahdawi writes an hilarious piece on Peta - and why it has “tofu for brains” Brilliant piece. Here’s a quote: “Further, courting controversy for controversy’s sake has a troubling effect over time. While shock and gore still have the potential to be powerful, they have become so ubiquitous that we are gradually becoming desensitised to them. It makes no difference whether you’re promoting chocolate or charity: normalising violence can never be justified. We should cut Peta absolutely no slack for this latest ad just because, somewhere in the background, bunny rabbits are involved.” It’s ironic that in their attempt to protect animals from violece, they run ads that depict women as victims of violence. PETA emphatically sucks. I mean, don’t get me wrong, I have nothing against rough sex, but this is tacky and absolutely classless.

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Honestly, Peta’s ads make me so angry I could stamp on a kitten. While eating a Big Mac and wearing chinchilla. If this has offended you, then I should make clear that my tongue is very firmly in my cheek. Which, funnily enough, was precisely the excuse Peta’s associate director of campaigns and outreach proffered when confronted with the criticism that the organisation’s latest ad, Boyfriend went vegan, all but condones physical violence within a relationship. After all, if sex sells, hard sex sells harder, and the sort of sex that leaves you hospitalised sells hardest of all.

• Arwa Mahdawi writes an hilarious piece on Peta - and why it has “tofu for brains”

Brilliant piece. Here’s a quote:

“Further, courting controversy for controversy’s sake has a troubling effect over time. While shock and gore still have the potential to be powerful, they have become so ubiquitous that we are gradually becoming desensitised to them. It makes no difference whether you’re promoting chocolate or charity: normalising violence can never be justified. We should cut Peta absolutely no slack for this latest ad just because, somewhere in the background, bunny rabbits are involved.”

It’s ironic that in their attempt to protect animals from violece, they run ads that depict women as victims of violence. PETA emphatically sucks. I mean, don’t get me wrong, I have nothing against rough sex, but this is tacky and absolutely classless.

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    It’s disgusting. She looks like a rape victim, like she’s been abused, and doesn’t look happy about the sex at all. WTF?
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    I recently gave up my abstention from red meat. This nonsense won’t reconvince me to do otherwise.
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    agreed. this ad is awful. it ends with her walking back for more, presumably. all i can think of is the cycle in abusive...
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    It’s ironic that in their attempt to protect animals from violece, they run ads that depict women as victims of...
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    We’re taking this straight from the guardian because who isn’t enraged by peta’s continued crushing sexism?
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    I may be vegetarian, but Peta is fucking insane. They have such a warped sense of ethics and sense of elitism. Aside...
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