ps: it actually wasn’t me who made the point about putting men in cages and actually peta does sometimes use naked men in their campaigns, too (as they will be VERY eager to point out to you if you criticise them.) the thing is, that’s an exception to the rule so it doesn’t mean much, and besides a lot of the time the men in such ads are not presented similarly to the women so the problem remains (compare this and this. even worse, when they are also sexualizing/dehumanizing men in the same vein as they do with women, it’s always men of color (i haven’t found even one exception: if they use naked men it’s either non-gratuitous/non-sexual or – they’re men of color). so, yeah. peta knows very well what it’s doing with all of this, and it’s anything but “ethical.”

PETA isn’t in the position of the women who are doing sex work — they’re in the position of the pornographers and strip club owners doing the exploiting. They’re pimping women out to promote themselves.

Prezactly. This isn’t about the woman in the picture chosing to protest like this. It’s about PETA’s history of using women to promote themselves.