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Exploiting women to protect animals?

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Exploiting women to protect animals?

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At first taste, Thursday’s New York Times piece about a Portland, Ore., strip club that promotes veganism seems like just another example of nichification madness. Green-haired soccer mothers who samba while scrapbooking? Give them a support group! Why not a club for horny PETA-philes who sicken at the sight of a leather thong or a juicy steak? But the story probes a vein of the radical vegetarian movement that’s — to thoroughly mutilate my metaphors — gotten on my nerves lately. PETA has always gone to extreme lengths to get its message out, whether it meant splashing the fur coats of celebrities with blood to illustrate the cruelty of the fur industry or photographing a seminaked model in a cage to raise awareness about pig farming practices. All is fair in love and activism. But lately, with “Skinny Bitch” books promoting veganism as the new fad diet and Vegan Vixens sexing up the airways with their soy-based song ‘n’ dance, the whole exploitation of women to protect animals has g

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