{"id":1521,"date":"2008-06-20T00:37:20","date_gmt":"2008-06-20T05:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=1521"},"modified":"2010-11-23T23:40:48","modified_gmt":"2010-11-24T04:40:48","slug":"real-girls-eat-meat-but-thin-girls-dont","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/06\/20\/real-girls-eat-meat-but-thin-girls-dont\/","title":{"rendered":"“Real Girls Eat Meat,” but Thin Girls Don’t"},"content":{"rendered":"

From my hotel room in Gallup, NM: Katie H. sent in this picture of Jessica Simpson in a shirt that says “Real girls eat meat”:<\/p>\n

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Katie points out that this could be a really interesting contrast to the PETA PSAs using sexualized images of big-breasted blond celebrities<\/a> to oppose eating meat and wearing fur.<\/p>\n

But she also provided a link to PETA’s response to the photo, “Top Five Reasons Only Stupid Girls Brag about Eating Meat<\/a>.” Note reason #4:<\/p>\n

Meat will make you fat. <\/strong>All the saturated fat and cholesterol in chicken wings, pork chops, and steak eventually leads to flabby thighs and love handles<\/a>. I hope the upcoming “Jessica Simpson’s Intimates” line comes in plus sizes! Going vegetarian is the best way to get slim and stay that way.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Katie pointed out that some of the other reasons play on the idea of attractiveness, too–compassion is “sexy” and the meat industry isn’t “hot.” It’s a very interesting connection between activism on behalf of animals and reinforcing ideals of femininity that focus on being thin and sexy above all else.<\/p>\n

Thanks, Katie H.!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From my hotel room in Gallup, NM: Katie H. sent in this picture of Jessica Simpson in a shirt that says “Real girls eat meat”: Katie points out that this could be a really interesting contrast to the PETA PSAs using sexualized images of big-breasted blond celebrities to oppose eating meat and wearing fur. But […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[12508,155,244,41,225,2124,55,54],"class_list":["post-1521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-activismsocial-movements","tag-animals","tag-fat","tag-celebrity","tag-clothesfashion","tag-foodagriculture","tag-gender","tag-sexual-orientation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1521"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29487,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1521\/revisions\/29487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}