14 DAY TRIAL // The entire world must be by now familiar to one of PETA’s most long-lasting campaigns against fur. Called “I’d rather go naked than wear fur,” it features only celebrities wearing absolutely nothing in what is meant to be a silent protest against wearing fur – and quite an efficient and eye-catching one as well. Christian Serratos from the “Twilight” franchise is the latest celebrity to take part in it.
The new PETA ad is already getting massive amounts of attention on the Internet and not only from “Twilight” fans, as MTV MoviesBlog can confirm. It’s only understandable that it did so, since the ad shows the young actress in the middle of a very dark, gloomy forest, leaning against a tree, with one of her hands under her head, while the other one is covering her modesty.
The writing on the poster also bears a very striking resemblance to the fonts that usually appear on “Twilight” posters, books and merchandise. There is also a faint spot of blood on the logo of the campaign, meant to reinforce what the caption above reads, “Animals killed for their fur are electrocuted, drowned, beaten and often skinned alive. Please don’t wear fur.” which are actually words said by Serratos herself, a longtime PETA collaborator.
However, not all women are that eager to lose the clothes than wear fur, as we were also telling you over the weekend. ManiK Magazine, a lifestyle and beauty magazine for plus-size women, launched an anti-PETA campaign a few days ago saying that the organization should stop using overweight women as “punchlines” for their campaigns because that qualified as “fat discrimination” and showed it used double standards in their ads.
“Manik Magazine founder, Selina Weekes, was outraged at PETA’s billboard posted in August 2009 in Jacksonville, Florida, that suggests overweight people are synonymous with whales and should lose the ‘blubber.’ Rather than be a silent advocate for the oppressed, Manik Magazine is asking readers to get involved by posting their Anti-PETA ad as a default picture on their social networking sites for one week, starting November 16-21, to show solidarity for their interactive campaign to stand up against ostracism and ridicule from organizations that subliminally degrade fuller figures.” ManiK Magazine said in a press statement released on the occasion.