Comments on: ARA PSAs: Women, Men and Fur http://www.easyvegan.info/2009/03/12/ara-psas-women-men-and-fur/ Heathen. Vegan. Feminist. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:13:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: Kelly Garbato http://www.easyvegan.info/2009/03/12/ara-psas-women-men-and-fur/comment-page-1/#comment-929371 Kelly Garbato Sun, 11 Jul 2010 16:41:58 +0000 http://www.easyvegan.info/?p=3127#comment-929371 @ Kelly Wilson - If you had just stuck to your main point, i.e., the number of red foxes and whether red fox populations qualify as "endangered species," I would have approved your comment. If and when animal advocacy groups float misleading or inaccurate information, I want to know, because - as your comment demonstrates - this makes <em>all</em> animal advocates look dishonest and/or ignorant. But clearly, I <em>didn't</em> publish your comment, and here's why: your closing jab about faux fur looking "tacky" and OMG IndyACT really should have used the "real thing" in its ads tells me that you're more interested in being an obnoxious asshat than you are in engaging in a conversation. And there's not enough time in the world for me to justify wasting any of it on people like you, kay? @ Kelly Wilson – If you had just stuck to your main point, i.e., the number of red foxes and whether red fox populations qualify as “endangered species,” I would have approved your comment. If and when animal advocacy groups float misleading or inaccurate information, I want to know, because – as your comment demonstrates – this makes all animal advocates look dishonest and/or ignorant.

But clearly, I didn’t publish your comment, and here’s why: your closing jab about faux fur looking “tacky” and OMG IndyACT really should have used the “real thing” in its ads tells me that you’re more interested in being an obnoxious asshat than you are in engaging in a conversation. And there’s not enough time in the world for me to justify wasting any of it on people like you, kay?

]]> By: Lettuce be thankful! » V for Vegan: easyVegan.info http://www.easyvegan.info/2009/03/12/ara-psas-women-men-and-fur/comment-page-1/#comment-915041 Lettuce be thankful! » V for Vegan: easyVegan.info Thu, 27 May 2010 01:59:48 +0000 http://www.easyvegan.info/?p=3127#comment-915041 [...] My girl crush on Shirley Manson aside, I like this ad because, instead of insulting women who wear fur (and by “insulting,” I don’t mean insulting their moral character, which is well within the bounds of legitimate criticism, but insulting their physical appearance, usually through the use of sexist slurs), it shows the audience from whence their fur came. Namely, once-living, breathing, sentient animals. Robbed of their skin, now all that’s left of these creatures are bloodied, lifeless corpses, which will be disposed of like so much garbage. (I blogged about this ad series in greater detail here.) [...] [...] My girl crush on Shirley Manson aside, I like this ad because, instead of insulting women who wear fur (and by “insulting,” I don’t mean insulting their moral character, which is well within the bounds of legitimate criticism, but insulting their physical appearance, usually through the use of sexist slurs), it shows the audience from whence their fur came. Namely, once-living, breathing, sentient animals. Robbed of their skin, now all that’s left of these creatures are bloodied, lifeless corpses, which will be disposed of like so much garbage. (I blogged about this ad series in greater detail here.) [...]

]]> By: Ask not “Are Animal Lovers Sexist?,” but “Can Animal Lovers Be Sexist?” (Answer: duh.) » V for Vegan: easyVegan.info http://www.easyvegan.info/2009/03/12/ara-psas-women-men-and-fur/comment-page-1/#comment-865979 Ask not “Are Animal Lovers Sexist?,” but “Can Animal Lovers Be Sexist?” (Answer: duh.) » V for Vegan: easyVegan.info Sun, 21 Mar 2010 16:30:46 +0000 http://www.easyvegan.info/?p=3127#comment-865979 [...] you’re surfing on over here from change.org. (Also related, and referenced in passing below: ARA PSAs: Women, Men and Fur and ARA PSAs: Attack of the Killer Cosmetics.) [...] [...] you’re surfing on over here from change.org. (Also related, and referenced in passing below: ARA PSAs: Women, Men and Fur and ARA PSAs: Attack of the Killer Cosmetics.) [...]

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