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jp11 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-17-10 06:53 AM
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12. I'm not seeing the sexism or violence towards women.
They aren't being any more sexist than just about any advertising you'd see in a newspaper, magazine, tv ad, hear on a radio commercial, internet ad etc because a topless or scantily clad attractive young women gets more attention than a topless or scantily clad man period. Toss in the way women are portrayed as weak or to be defended/upheld as our mothers/sisters/daughters you get an additional outrage factor from people.

Violence towards women, there isn't any, it is a comparison towards the meat we eat and the fact that we must kill animals to then carve them up and sell their flesh since very few of us ever think about how that cow turns into a hamburger or want to, the bloody women and packaged women put that question to your mind or so peta thinks.

PETA is about shock and outrage, pushing their beliefs in your face while claiming to be morally superior their hypocrisy is more disturbing to me than the sideshow they put on the sidewalks to make themselves feel good and coax ignorant good meaning people to hand over money to them. I'd add that in some places it is legal and permissible for a women to appear topless so we can't cower to what would the children think, if that bothers you then you'd need to work to reverse or enact laws that do not allow women to appear topless in public. I believe some feminists would argue that doing so goes against their rights but you can explain to them it is about the children or whatever you believe.


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