I thought I would attempt to get the ball rolling on this project with a little story that remembered sparked by a conversation which Deb and I had during last class about how The Devil is still present in today's society and how decadance is also still very apparent. We can choose to keep or delete this post later...
This is something that happened to me August 2006 during my first week at a new job. I was running slight late so I decided to take the freeway, I turned off the 200th exit in Langley and continued down the street until I had to stop at a red light at what I believe is the intersection of 200th and Willow Dr (or something along those lines), basically if you've been to Langley, it's the intersection on 200th with the KFC. It was a strange atmosphere. People were honking their honks and I could hear shouting. I noticed a group of protesters on the sidewalk in front of the KFC holding signs along the lines of "Stop Animal Cruelty" and "KFC is the Devil." The signs were all held by what I thought at the time to be scantly clad females wearing red. This is when I got a jolt which has kept with me for over a year now. I was in the middle lane of traffic and on my passenger side a figure seemed to appear. It was the Devil! And he appeared to be naked! I am slightly embarassed to admit I screamed from fright all alone in my car. After regaining my composure, I noticed that the ladies were not scantily clad... they were not clad at all! They were wearing nothing more than body paint and black panties, the male devil was also decked out in body paint and boxers. Although attention grabbing, I couldn't really grasp the point of the nudity... where these people protesting against clothing or against animal cruelty? I have a link to the story for anyone interested (it has a picture of one of the body painted ladies ;) ) it's on page three and it is written from the activist point of view.
http://www.vancouverhumanesociety.bc.ca/files/images/Fall2006.pdf
So the questions I'm asking is this: was the decadence of nudity really necessary to protest animal cruelty? Can anyone else think of an occasion when they came across The Devil in everyday life? What were your reactions to it?
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Great example Karen,
I don't think the nudity was necessary at all. Many activist groups often pull of extreme stunts to get attention. It makes me think of PETA and their many many shocking campaigns.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdNEhREYJ1c
This is a PETA video with Alicia Silverstone skinny dipping in a pool talking about how great being a vegetarian is. I don't know how the naked part promotes a vegetarian lifestyle but there she is naked. In this case PETA is using sex as a method of drawing attention to cause but it really doesn't add any substance to their argument but thats their perogative.
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