a curious, but beautiful oddity

prettybourgeois:

The Guerrilla Girls Demand A Return to Traditional Values

(Source: fuckyeahmexico)

looking at PETA visuals for Argumentation Theory today. 

As Aristotle said in On Rhetoric, “Boobies boobies boobies.” 

malloreigh:

PETA fucks up again with fat hate, not just objectification & sexualization of women’s bodies, via vegansaurus:

Le sigh, PETA. Not again. I thought we went over how truly awful and fucked up it is to target kids based on their weight? I guess not! So, here we go again because shouting into the void obviously gets me off! This is definitely something to address in therapy!

Dear PETA,

1) Not all fat kids are unhealthy.

2) Not all skinny kids are healthy.

3) When you target people based on weight, it’s fucked up and cruel. Fat kids already get made fun of enough, so much so that a lot of them just kill themselves. Wait… maybe that’s your plan?? One less meat eater!

4) Campaigns like this actively encourages victim blaming. I know this is aimed towards parents, but so many kids will see it, and they don’t have the resources to respond in a way other than self blame, self hate, or shame. Like, imagine if this were a rape awareness campaign, and the picture was of a girl in a short skirt with the tag line: DON’T ASK FOR IT. WEAR PANTS. You know? Who exactly are you helping? I’m confused. 

Yes, PETA, cutting down on your meat intake is really great for your health, you can’t argue against that. I’m a fat vegan and my cholesterol is the best my doctor has seen all year! But this campaign has NOTHING to do with health, and everything to do with shame. It’s repugnant and depressing. I think PETA does lots of great work, I do, but it’s stuff like this that makes me want to holler, throw up both my hands! I encourage PETA (and really everyone ever) to read Health at Every Size, learn about our so-called “Obesity Epidemic”, and read up on the big business of fat hate. Or maybe PETA already knows that and they’re just capitalizing? Either way, it fucking sucks.

Confronted a PETA campaigner the other day about the organization’s [by my standards, as a media-studies student and rhetorician] completely unethical advertising techniques. They were appalled, asking me how the bodies used in their pieces could in any way shape or form be improper, given that the models/spokespeople “liked the attention” and “consented” and “wanted to be seen that way”.

Good argument, bro. Shock me, shock me.

I’m a vegetarian supporting (pro-choice, if you will) omnivore- for future reference.

wilkinator:

thetreesareburning:considerthisagift:streamsideeasternglow:

eye colour & the perception of beauty

Holy shit! I notice the imperfections so much for easily in the brown eyed pictures.

 i dont notice more inperfections, just the obvious fact of brown eyes being more common, therefore, the ones with brown eyes look like any other girl, blue eyes are special.

Can’t get over how different an eye colour changes how someone looks.

This really is crazy to look at for a while. 

seriously, depressingly accurate.