January 27th 2009
Our Crumbling Civilization: NSFW Edition
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or those of you not familiar with the lingo, let me quickly tell you before you click that little arrow that NSFW stands for “not safe for work,” and as you might guess from the broccoli lust in the image, this video is definitely NSFW. That is, unless you work at a lingerie model agency.
So if you’re at work, I’ll describe it to you. It shows women in the sort of state of undress that would cause al Qaeda to plan another terror attack to take out the Great Satan. They are lithe, lingerie clad, and given to provocatively licking and sensually fondling … vegetables. In soft light. With nasty music.
In a sign that our civilization has not completely crumbled (yet), NBC rejected the ad, which was submitted by PETA (People Eat Tasty Animals) for a Superbowl showing.
The message of the ad is simple enough, in bold headlines between the photos:
Studies show vegetarians have better sex. Go Veg.
I take issue. Most vegetarians are young, for example, while thirty somethings constitute only 19 percent of all primary
grocery shoppers, they account for 26 percent of vegetarian shoppers. Since they’re basically younger, they’re going to have basically better sex, with our without a veggie diet. That’s if you can define “better sex.” PETA doesn’t. And I don’t really want them to.
Be that as it may, it wasn’t the words that killed the ad, it was the images, which according to PETA, NBC summarized as:
- licking pumpkin
- touching her breast with her hand while eating broccoli
- pumpkin from behind between legs
- rubbing pelvic region with pumpkin
- sex with broccoli (fuzzy) [and edited by me]
- asparagus on her lap appearing as if it is [well, I can't really let that description in this blog]
- licking eggplant
- rubbing asparagus on breast
You get the idea. Do you also get the idea that PETA never intended NBC to run this ad? Indeed, its Web site shows eight other ads classified as “too hot for TV,” most of them apparently too hot for the same sort of reasons.
If they really wanted to get an ad on the Superbowl, you think they’d have learned by now. But of course, they don’t want to pay a gazillion bucks to get an add on the Superbowl. They want to produce an ad the networks can’t run, get it rejected and get a bunch of publicity. Like this. I’m a pawn. It’s no different than their scantily clad demonstrations, which are guaranteed to make the sex-starved evening news.
(I guess you could conclude that if a lot of vegetarians are young women who are prone to taking off their clothes in public, then it would explain why they have more – if not better – sex.)
I post this up under the “Our Crumbling Civilization” banner in part because PETA in all that it does is emblematic of crumbling . They’re too addled to understand that humans have the God-given gift of sentience and other animals don’t, and society is too enthralled by their reliance on sexy publicity to whack ‘em upside the head.
But more, it’s here because of how thoroughly exploitative of sex our society has become, and how hypocritical we are about it. Watch NBC any evening and you’ll see tops lower and skirts higher than any you’ll see on any street because they’ve found it’s easier to get viewers through great bodies than through great drama. Yet when they rightly turn around and axe the PETA ad, they do it without a blush of shame.
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January 27th, 2009 at 2:47 pm
PETA: People Enjoying T & A?