Links: PETA's new naked woman ad enrages the Catholic Church
By Ben ReiningaFebruary 25th, 2011, 5:39 pmComments (10)
Wow, this story has a veritable panoply of guaranteed-to-outrage elements: PETA, nutty enough on their own, made some more naked-woman advertisements, this time with Joanna Krupa. Posing with a crucifix and angel wings in a Catholic church. They should have just really gone for it, and put her in blackface...
Reservoir Dogs finally got a porn. Apparently, it's a totally accurate, scene-for-scene pornographic remake of Quentin Tarantino's classic. Whatever the hell that means.
Do you know what the Anti-Joke Chicken meme is? It's perhaps the Michael Jordan of internet memes, and very much worth knowing about. Fortunately, some of the best examples of it have been handily compiled here.
And finally, just because it's Friday, here's the best video of a bride in a wedding dress getting hit by a wave and swept off the beach I've seen all day.
Commentarium (10 Comments)
I don't mean to be an apologist, but at least the Church isn't threatening death to the infidels for the misuse of their religious symbols.
I'd go to church for some of that.
The PETA ad is also very upsetting to vampires.
Is there some reason why we should give a shit about what the catholic church thinks?
Being raised Catholic is the worst thing that ever happened to me. Being a lapsed Catholic is one of the best.
"Lapsed Catholic"? Is there any other kind?
Why does someone want to deliberately enrage a religion body? Would they dare do that to some other religion? And I am writing this as a non scripture based religion practitioner.
Because non-religious people don't hold the symbols and practices of religion to be sacred, so they see depictions of this as not being a big deal. It's not that they do it for the purpose of enraging a religion, they do it for their own purposes, failing to realize just how it will be interpreted by others who have a greater investment in the use of such symbols, or at least thinking the reaction will be less than it turns out to be. Of course some people go out of their way to piss off religions, but I think that many times it is just a case of two widely different perspectives interpreting something in radically different ways.
...or, maybe it's because controversy creates more media coverage, more hype and ultimately more focus on them and their organization, which does seem to be PETA's game plan. Better to be controversial and seen, than safe, quiet and invisible.
Yeah, because putting someone in black face and showing a beautiful woman holding a cross and sprouting angel wings are exactly the same.
Now you say something