I was just shopping at Hollywood and Highland (this is "Hollywood" to everyone who doesn't live in LA) and I noticed a billboard with a beautiful girl on it holding up the skinned body of a fox. It was a
PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) ad and the caption said something like "This is the rest of your fur coat." Two things occurred to me when I saw this: 1)did PETA skin a fox just to make a point? 2)placing this ad in the most tourist-ridden spot in Los Angeles (instead of say, Rodeo Drive, where someone who lives here may actually be buying a fur coat) is so typically LA it's sickening. This is the moral equivalent of the guy at the football games who holds the sign with Bible verses on it. He doesn't expect any real response, but everyone is convinced he really believes in something because he's made a spectacle of himself. Even a radical political organization can't escape from being as sickeningly exhibitionistic as it's surroundings. Also, this is just the type of thing that fits in with the Los Angeles pseudo-morality. You will never see a billboard with aborted human fetuses on it (not that you should) or a "God Hates Fags" billboard from
Fred Phelps (again, not that you should). Because being nice to animals is a trendy political campaign, though, I have to see a skinned fox on a billboard when I go shopping. I'm buying a fur coat next time.
-Matt 18:13 EST |
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