Margaret Cho - Is it acceptable for people to wear fur?

"It made me never want to wear fur ever again"

From her blog:

I love animals so much, but I didn’t really know much about animal cruelty. I think most people are fairly ignorant about the way animals are treated, myself included. I am the worst. I wore fur without any thought to what I was actually doing. It was all vintage fur so I thought, well, at least I didn’t kill it first. It would have died of old age by now anyway. Fur also has a lot of cultural importance for women of color. It is a status thing. Fur can be symbolic of our success; it telegraphs our importance in the world, it shows that we can afford luxury, that we are good enough to have these things, and we want the world to witness it. Those symbols are hard to let go of. When you come from nothing, possessions have a lot of power. They mean that you have power. It is hard to explain to those who haven’t experienced it, but those who have been there, know exactly what I mean.

Even though I have attended events for PETA in the past, I didn’t really understand what fur had to do with it. Really! I am straight up ignant sometimes. And if I am that dumb I am sure that lots and lots of other people are just as bad as me if not worse. I happened to be watching one of my very favorite shows, The Janice Dickinson Modeling Agency, and Janice was showing her models a PETA video of caged foxes on a fur farm, and one of the foxes was just left in his cage with an exposed bone! It was so terrible and painful looking and I just cried and screamed and wanted to do something about it. It made me never want to wear fur ever again, and it made me a PETA fan for life. I love how they are so very direct. They show us what the truth is, and that truth is enough to change everything.

Posted on 4/9/2008 12:41:50 PM by MikeDApproved 4/11/2008 10:37 AM