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New fat shaming billboard: 'Lose weight: get laid'
Friday, November 6, 2009
Fat-shaming vegan lobby People for the Ethical Treatment of animals (PETA) wants to erect another trashy billboard in Hagerstown, Maryland that ridicules overweight and unattractive men.
The move follows an infantile survey conducted by website totalbeauty.com that claims that the men of Hagerstown, Maryland are the second ugliest in the US.
PETA's proposed billboard depicts an 'unattractive, overweight man' with the vulgar strap line:
'The 400 pound virgin: Lose weight, look great, get laid, go vegan'.
'The billboard aims to let Hagerstown males know that the best thing they can do for their appearance and their sex life--not to mention for animals--is to avoid meat,' the lobby says.
We've heard it all before.
The lobby's co-founder Ingrid Newkirk was forced to apologize earlier this year after erecting an array of billboards that compared women to whales and fat-shamed men.
The apology was disingenuous and the same tactics continue unabated.
Read more about PETA's fat-shaming techniques here and here.
2 comments:
This has got to be proof that the saying all publicity is good publicity is a crock.
This level of in your face offense can only speed up the public's realisation that the people at PETA need to go.
Did you refer to Newkirk as co-founder Spike? Who are the other perps?
Newkirk founded it in the 80's with fellow ARA Alex Pacheco before they had a big falling out and parted ways.
There is an unfortunate Australian connection: Peter Singer's philosophy appears to underpin the groups ideology.
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