Animal rights advocates will single out small children at performances of ``The Nutcracker’’ in the next few weeks by handing out fliers saying ``Your Mommy Kills Animals’’ to youngsters whose mothers are wearing fur.
| Be sure to equip your children with counter-fliers, saying "Your mother wears combat boots." |
``Children can’t look up to a mom in a battered-raccoon hat or a crushed coyote collar,’’ said Ingrid Newkirk, president of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. ``Maybe when they’re confronted by their own children’s hurt looks, fur-wearers’ cold hearts will melt.’’
| I dunno about that, Ingrid. When I was a little kid, my Grandmaw had one of those furs with the tail on one end and the weasel's head at the other, with a pair of little gimlet glass eyes. I thought it was really neat. I can't recall ever giving my Grandmaw a hurt look, either. She was a nice lady with a faint moustache and a thick accent, who was always nice to me and had a very comfortable lap. I guess that ruined me for life... |
The fliers include a color drawing of a woman plunging a large bloody knife into the belly of a terrified rabbit. The fliers urge kids to ``ask your mommy how many dead animals she killed to make her fur clothes.
When I was a kid I used to help my dad kill, skin, and butcher rabbits.
| We had a chicken yard, and fried chicken on Sundays. Head on the stump and a whack with the hatchet, then wait for dinner to stop running around in circles. I liked that part better than gutting and plucking them. But what the hell did I know? I was just a kid. |
``And the sooner she stops wearing fur, the sooner the animals will be safe. Until then, keep your doggie or kitty friends away from mommy - she’s an animal killer.’’
This is sick!
Brookline child psychologist Dr. Carolyn Newberger called the tactics asinine ``terribly dangerous to children.’’
| Maybe to the really little ones, but they can't read fliers anyway. I was smart enough to ignore that kind of crap by the time I was in grade school. "Mommy! Another nut tried to give me something today, but I told her to cram it up her ass, just like you told me!" |
``It’s using children in the worst possible way,’’ she said. ``If (the activists) want to legitimately work to protect animals from destruction for fashion, they have every right to. But to do so by targeting children and making them feel their mothers are murderers is absolutely unconscionable.’’
| Normal rules of behavior don't apply to PETA, Carolyn. That's why responsible adults teach their children to tell them to cram it. |
Lisa Franzetta, a national coordinator for PETA, said the group will launch its ``fur-ocious’’ protest at `Nutcracker’ performances in as many as 20 cities across the United States. Franzetta, who is based in California, said yesterday she did not yet know when the protests will begin in Boston, where ``The Nutcracker’’ is playing at the Wang Center for the Performing Arts in the Theater District. Franzetta acknowledged the anti-fur campaign might spark a backlash. ``It’s definitely provocative, I will give you that,’’ she said.
| If we lived in a just and reasonable world, you'd end up requiring new dental work with the first one you handed out. |
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