P-C, what everyone else said. Sometimes you have to do what you have to do. I'd try to work up a suggestion to ease your mother's fears, but I'm not sure anything would do that without wreaking havoc on the boundaries you need to create.
askye, without having seen the ad, I'd agree that it sounds like the imagery is pretty sexual. Assuming that Alicia Silverstone would still be considered sexy -- I haven't seen any pictures of her at all lately, so I wouldn't know.
The problem with getting upset about the ad is, sex sells. Or at least advertisers have decided that it does. And it's always been so, though admittedly full nudity is a recent development. And advertisers prefer to use sex to sell by relying on beautiful women more than beautiful men.
Maybe the answer is to suggest a comparable ad involving a celebrity male vegetarian.
Assuming that Alicia Silverstone would still be considered sexy -- I haven't seen any pictures of her at all lately, so I wouldn't know.
I think the deal is that she had gained "a lot" of weight and was considered not-sexy for a few years. So now her sexiness was rehabbed through the power of vegetarianism.
t random
If I had twins right now, I'd name them Tegan Isabel and Julian Charles.
t /random
I'm hoping you don't mean identical twins.
ETA: oops
Heeey, GC, by the way, I got
The Con
a few weeks ago. My favorite songs are "The Con," "Hop a Plane" (probably my most-listened-to off the album), "Back in Your Head," "Burn Your Life Down," and I think "Like O, Like H." I haven't totally gotten into it, but I like some songs.
She doesn't dig most of the cruciferous veggies
This is me. I just googled the phrase and now I know the Devil's true name. A few of the leafier items on the list are OK (arugula, watercress, bok choy), but most of those are the NAST!! I've always called them the sweaty vegetables.
Ok. The professor I am working with this semester (I'm the tutor for her students) apparently paid me a huge compliment to the professor of my tutoring seminar. YAY! I wish I knew what the compliment was, but my prof said she'd tell me later. She was off to a meeting.
The shot in the ad is very similiar to the scene in Fast Times from Ridgemont High where Pheobe Cates gets out of the pool? It's pretty much that excetp from behind and you can see Alicia's naked ass. And then Alicia lies on the edge of the pool.
All very very sexy and some of the people on the forum even said they didnt' think anyone would really pay attention to what Alicia was saying, just look at her body. I think I'm a little frustrated because I have the feeling that if the ad were for milk some of these people would be criticizing it for selling sex but since it's for PETA it's okay.
Am I over reacting? I see it and all I see is seduction and sex, I can't really see how it's just about showing what a healthy vegetarian can look like.
It made a certain amount of sense when they were doing the anti-fur campaigns, but for this? I don't think you're wrong.
