Georges Laraque Offends Feminists

From the "Are you freakin' kidding me file"....

Montreal Canadiens forward Georges Laraque has apologized for appearing in an internet commercial that a women's rights group says sends the wrong message about women.

Before I comment, why not have a look at the one minute advertisement for Octane 7.0.

Now...the only things that upset me about seeing this commercial are as follows:

1. Georges appears to have better puck-handling skills on dry land than he does on the ice during a real NHL hockey game.

2. Laraque didn't drop the gloves and jersey one of his opponents.

3. No rubdowns on the trainers bench following the game.

But seriously, what is the big deal?

Sure the video shows a team of scantily clad young women preparing for and playing some street hockey. Laraque shows up in time with the beverage he's promoting and sets the cans up as goal posts for an impromptu game with the ladies.

I think this just shows how nice Georges really is. How many other NHL players would take time out of their summer to play a road hockey game with some people in the neighbourhood?

A spokeswoman for CLES, an organization that fights sexual exploitation said "The women don't even talk. All they're showing is a certain part of their body. The camera, the eye, is focusing on certain parts of the body." Well duh! What's the camera supposed to focus on...their brains or their feet?

When will these groups realize that sex sells and this is never going away. I'm all for protecting women and keeping them safe but the ladies in this commercial seem pretty happy so they obviously didn't mind.

Good looking, bare-chested men are exploited in commercials all the time, yet I never hear anybody cry foul over those ads. And don't kid yourself...women love those commercials just as much as men love these and other commercials where bikini wearing young hotties are showing off their "assets".

Of course Georges doesn't want to offend anyone so he's apologized for taking part in the ad saying "I'm deeply sorry that I upset people. But everybody that knows me as a person knows the type of person that I am. Everywhere that I've ever played I've supported many charities, and I do every year."

No apology necessary as far as I'm concerned. This is just one group taking something so small that most people would never have even heard about it and using it to further their agenda.

As far as I'm concerned, the only thing wrong with this advertisement is the fact that Laraque is selling an alcoholic beverage which is not allowed according to the NHL guidelines. No, they can't promote it but the league has no problem with players drinking all kinds of beer and champagne live on TV after winning the Stanley Cup.

PETA Ad Shockingly Insensitive

I always knew the people behind the organization PETA or People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals were a little odd or extreme when it came to getting a point across. Sure I thought the throwing of animal blood or red paint on people wearing fur coats was over the top but it pales in comparison to their latest idea.

Before I begin my bashing of PETA, let me say that I actually supported their efforts in the past. I never donated money or attended any fundraisers but as an animal lover I commended their efforts to make sure animals are looked after. And if I’m being totally honest…I actually hate cats but I certainly wouldn’t want to see any killed or hurt. I’d just never own one.

Now that you know where I once stood it’s time for me to tell you why I now think the people in charge of PETA are a bunch of insensitive morons who make eating sewer rats seem more appealing than supporting their cause.

Allow me to bring you up to speed in case you hadn’t heard.

I’m sure you’re all aware of the terrible incident recently that happened on a Greyhound bus in Manitoba where an unprovoked attacker killed and decapitated a young man. This shocking story is still fresh in everyone’s minds so the dip-shits at PETA tried to capitalize on this story to further their organizations agenda by running a newspaper ad comparing the beheading to animal rights abuses. The PETA website said they would run the ad in the Portage la Prairie Daily Graphic, however the paper has no intention of running the ad. At least someone has a brain.

PETA tried to compare the use of imagery of “an innocent victim’s throat being cut in reference to the slaughter of cows, chickens and pigs on factory farms.”

The ad reads, “His struggles and cries are ignored…the man with the knife shows no emotion…the victim is slaughtered and his head cut off…his flesh is eaten”, reads the ad which is posted on their website.

“If this ad leaves a bad taste in your mouth, please give a thought to what sensitive animals think and feel when they come to the end of their frightening journey and see, hear and smell the slaughterhouse.”

“Like human victims, animals in slaughterhouses experience terror when they are attacked by a knife-wielding assailant,” said Lindsay Rajt of PETA in a news release. “We are challenging everyone who is rightly horrified by this crime to look into their hearts and consider leaving violence off their dinner plates.”

Rajt said the ad was intended to be shocking and is meant to spur people to think about the terror and pain experienced by animals who are raised and killed for food.

Well you know what Lindsay…you and the marketing dorks who concocted this brain dead idea should be fired for using a tragedy such as this for your own disgusting advantage. I don’t give a rat’s ass what your intentions were, the way you went about it is a travesty and 100% disrespectful to the victim, his family and his friends.

Did PETA come out with an ad after 9/11 comparing the loss of 3000 innocent lives to the daily loss of cattle in a slaughterhouse? Of course not because they knew they’d have their asses handed to them on a turkey platter. Why not pull out the big guns and think of a way to use the holocaust to your advantage you sick SOB’s? The fact that there was only one human life lost in this case doesn’t make your ad any less disrespectful.

I think I’ll be starting my own group to offset your lame excuse for an organization. I’ll call it PETA…People for Eating Tasty Animals. How on earth you can compare a human life to that of a cow or a pig is beyond me?

Your classless association has sunk to the level where only scum and chicken excrement can be found. You have succeeded in one thing and that is to make me go out and buy a fur coat and a raccoon hat for this upcoming winter. I think I’ll also discuss your stupidity with friends over a thick and juicy steak or big piece of prime rib. Heck, I might even offer to slaughter my friends beef cows for him and send PETA the pictures of me smiling.

If all they were looking for is publicity then they are sure going to receive that but I can’t say it will be positive. I suppose even bad publicity raises awareness to an organization and their cause no matter how sick or insensitive they are. I just hope the few smart people that they must have working for or supporting them will release an apology to the victim’s family. It’s the very least they should do.

There is no way that I could ever support or respect this organization ever again as they’ve proven they have no ethics.

You can click the image below to see the stupid ad larger.