Guest guest Posted January 13, 2003 Report Share Posted January 13, 2003 to close the discussion the PETA's 2003 Pin-Up Calendar posted by dublin_pussy, here is PETA's response. > -----Forwarded Message----- > > Jennie Taylor Martin <Jenniet > jstockdi > RE: Human Body > 13 Jan 2003 14:26:01 -0500 > > Dear Jon, > > We appreciate your concern about PETA's 2003 Pin-Up > Calendar. For more > than a decade, PETA has been putting a light-hearted > spin on serious > animal issues through the use of provocative " sexy " > ads-highlighting > issues from fur to factory farms. The response from > the media has given > us an opportunity to talk about the serious issues > of animal abuse that > we might otherwise not have had the opportunity to > discuss. > > As an organization staffed largely by feminist > women, we would never do > something that we felt contributed to the very > serious problems that > women face. Unlike women who are paid to pose nude > or who are scantily > dressed to sell a product, our " naked " demonstrators > and billboard > models choose to participate in our actions > voluntarily, because they > want to do something to make people stop and pay > attention to animal > cruelty. > > Our purpose is to stop animal suffering, and we rely > on opportunities to > reach millions of people with powerful messages. > Frankly, people do pay > more attention to our racier actions, and we > consider the public's > attention to be extremely important. Sometimes this > requires > tactics-like naked marches and colorful ad > campaigns-that some people > find outrageous or even " rude " ; part of our job is > to shake people up > and, yes, shock them, in order to initiate > discussion, debate, > questioning of the status quo, and, of course, > action. The situation > for billions of animals is critical, and our goal is > to get the public > to think about the issues. > > PETA does make a point of having something for all > tastes, from the most > conservative to the most radical, from the most > tasteless to the most > refined, and this approach has proved amazingly > successful-in the two > decades since PETA was first founded, it has grown > into the largest > animal rights group in the world, with more than > 750,000 members > worldwide. > > We certainly respect your right to disagree with our > tactics, but we > hope you'll recognize that there is no one final > word on what offends > women and what doesn't. Many of the feminist women > here-and the women > who have written in telling us they love our > actions-have a different > view. It is just this reason that caused us to put a > collection of our > ads together in this calendar. You might be > interested to know that it > was a female staff member's idea to put the calendar > together. We had > originally planned to have a male calendar as well, > but that one was put > off for a year. It will most likely be a 2004 > calendar that we will > offer. > > Although we may disagree on this one issue, I hope > that we can continue > to count on your support, as we agree on so many > other issues with > regards to animal suffering. > > Sincerely, > > Jennie Taylor Martin > Customer Service Manager > > > info > Monday, January 13, 2003 11:14 AM > Jennie Taylor Martin > FW: Human Body > > > > > > Jon Stockdill [jstockdi] > Friday, January 10, 2003 2:25 PM > > Cc: MediaInfo; info > Re: Human Body > > > first, lets remember the purpose of peta: > http://www.peta.com/fp/veg.html > > next bring peta up to speed on the discussion. > > hopefully they will put more carrots and melons in > the calendars and > less tits and ass. > > > > On Fri, 2003-01-10 at 14:05, dublin_pussy wrote: > > How how you be so quick to judge that a " naked > body " means s*x? > > > > I for one do not associate the naked body with it, > as I go to the gym > > alot and see many naked bodies in the changing > room. Should I go up to > > > those women and tell them, not to be naked, > because it is related to > > s*x? > > > > > > contact owner: -owner > > Mail list: > > Delivered-mailing list > > > List-Un: > - > > > > no flaming arguing or denigration of others > allowed > > contact owner with complaints regarding > posting/list > > or anything else. Thank you. > > please share/comment/inform and mostly enjoy this > list > > > > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 13, 2003 Report Share Posted January 13, 2003 The response from > the media has given > us an opportunity to talk about the serious issues > of animal abuse that > we might otherwise not have had the opportunity to > discuss. They had to resort to nude women to get attention. because they > > want to do something to make people stop and pay > > attention to animal > > cruelty. Most of these people didn't stop and pay attention to animal cruelty. And granted these 'ladies' didn't get paid, they were still recongized...Isn't that more precious than $$? Thank you for posting their reply, it was very interesting. PETA means well, even if they have recently had tasteless ways of getting their point across. Warmly, Allison Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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