The thing is, if these pictures had been doctored up to make the animals look like black people during the period of slavery or jews in a concentration camp, all hell would break loose. In fact, they know all hell would break loose, which is why they would never attempt it in the first place. But hardly anyone bats an eye at images like these. Indeed, they make it to print. Sickening. Sexism and speciesism are the last oppressions that it’s OK to joke about in polite company.

And the more I stare at the cow, the stronger my feeling that they’re about to break into song. Hypnotic!

Also have you ever seen Carol J Adams’ slideshows they are full of images like this, apparently anthropomorphized pig-women are very popular for advertising little barbeque restaurants.

Also I didn’t get the penis thing upon first looking at the images, but now I can’t not see it. Though perhaps the pink lighting only makes it more obvious for some folks ;)

@ Cara – Good call! I totally missed that. Possibly each ad is supposed to depict a prostitute from a different decade, then? (In which case, the ads are even worse than I initially thought.)

The thing is, if these pictures had been doctored up to make the animals look like black people during the period of slavery or jews in a concentration camp, all hell would break loose. In fact, they know all hell would break loose, which is why they would never attempt it in the first place. But hardly anyone bats an eye at images like these. Indeed, they make it to print. Sickening. Sexism and speciesism are the last oppressions that it’s OK to joke about in polite company.