If an organization has a message that it feels strongly about, I think it would really help their cause if their presentation was not taken from the Gypsy Rose Lee playbook.
PETA was on Capitol Hill yesterday to protest National Hot Dog Month. The event has turned into a yearly sideshow.
PETA has been coming to The Hill for the past 8 or 10 years to give away free veggie dogs in protest to bring awareness to their cause. Seems simple enough. Maybe even noble. But when you bring women in bikinis to attract attention and pass out “hot dogs” (as far as I am concerned for it to be called a hot dog it must have some type of meat in it) the message seems to get diluted.
Last year it was 2009 Playboy Playmate of the Year, Jayde Nicole. This year it was Vida Guerra, a Cuban-born American model, serving up a hefty serving of cheesecake with a side of veggies in a sausage casing. Gimme a break. The only reason anyone is showing up for this is for the free food or to be able to be in on the conversation around the office or bar when someone asks if they saw the show.
Don’t misunderstand, I have no problem with good looking women in bikinis. It is their blatant objectification in order to push an agenda that pisses me off. Using vegetarian models may work for PETA’s campaign against eating meat, but I am sure these women use products were animals are used in their creation. Leather purses, shoes, cosmetics just to name a few.
Maybe I am just bitter because one of the PETA people asked me at one point when I was shooting at a low angle to please stand up and “change my “angle.” I was trying to capture the fact that the women were in chili-pepper bikinis and still get a face or two of the patrons in the photo. Apparently she felt the story was about the veggie dogs and not the scantily clad women passing them out.
Maybe we should have taken a poll and asked the people in line what had poorer taste, the dogs or the method of presentation.
Mother Jones picked up my image of President Barack Obama hugging Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) during the State of the Union Address on Capitol Hill Tuesday night. Giffords made only her second return to the House chamber since she was shot in the head last January and just one day before she is to resign [...]
Covering the President’s State of the Union Address (SOTU) at the U.S. Capitol is pretty cool. The event is full of pomp and pageantry but it is also the worst case example of hurry up and wait. Because of the heightened security surrounding the 9:00 p.m. event, it is best to arrive early and before [...]
Hundreds of members of the "Occupy" movement from across the country participate in the Occupy Congress rally on Capitol Hill, calling on lawmakers to have a greater focus on alleviating income inequalities.
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