First, who do they think they’re attracting with these stunts? People who share a real concern about animals, or guys who are just humoring their model to get up close to them?

Second, this pushes women away from their foundation. Is this what they want? Do they want to have the image, that PETA’s female volunteers are unable to dress themselves, like a pre-schooler? That’s the message I feel they’re sending, our women are too dumb to portray a message by themselves, so we’re going to have them run around half naked like 10 year olds at a pool party! This clearly is infantilizing women, what women is going to support a movement that says they’re essentially beyond stupid, and animals are smarter than them?

What even makes less sense to me, is PETA is run by Ingrid Newkirk, a woman. I could understand this kind of sexism coming from a man, but a fellow woman? Does she really have such disrespect for her own kind, she doesn’t believe they can host a protest with their clothes on and get attention? I had thought their next campaign, should be where they appear to be teaching their nude protesters how to dress like 2 year olds, but that would be infantlizing women and PETA most likely would be clueless as to it being a statement against their view of women as children.