Yay or Nay Wednesday: would you rather go naked than wear fur?

Our last Yay or Nay was the petunia swing turtleneck from Anthropologie. Most of you said that it was a wholehearted "Nay!", although one our our fabulous readers pointed out they "think it would look great on someone with long brown hair and a chunky fringe".

We featured Janice Dickinson marching (half) naked with her (fully) naked male models in protest of wearing fur, earlier this week. This got me thinking. Would you, in fact, rather go naked instead of wearing fur like Janice? Yay or Nay?

Post a comment and let us know what you think!

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Yay or Nay Wednesday: would you rather go naked than wear fur? - Comments

Peter Lorenson

Fur only means cowardice and cruelty and it is not necessary.

Kayla Worden

Yay! I would most definitely rather go naked than wear fur. In fact, I've done so on numerous occassions in support of the voiceless animals. www.furisdead.com

Fur is worn by beautiful animals and ugly people. Fur whores, be warned!

Chelsea D.

Yay, because the fur industry is comprised of and supported by selfish, merciless people who care more about profits and "fashion" than the suffering and lives of animals. The overwhelming majority of people who wear fur do it for reasons of vanity and financial status. In other words, they want to look "pretty" and "rich." In the days of cavemen, hunting animals for their meat and fur was necessary for SURVIVAL. They didn't do it because they wanted to look stylish on the runway. Today, hunting animals for their meat and fur is understandable only in certain areas of the world where alternatives are not available, and people's lives depend on it. Human beings should eliminate as much suffering from this world as possible, and that means not killing animals simply because you think it is divine to look like a shag rug.

Stacey

I have been in two minds whether or not to post a reply to all those who have attacked me for my reply and more importantly, MY choice.

If you feel bile rising in your throat already, I suggest you stop reading this post. Don't both replying or critising me, because after this post I I will not read this page.

If you choose continue, nothing I write here is sarcastic or intended in anyway to offend. If you think I am doing so, please read it again.

Many of you have chosen not to wear fur because you are aware of the methods used to gain it. You have researched this, thought about it and have then formed your opinion. Believe me when I say that I have respect for all of you who have done this, it is a difficult descision to make and you have made the choice that you feel is correct for you.

However I have also done the same research and made my own choice. One thing you will notice through this post that this a highly indivual choice and should only be made independantly, regardless of others opinions. My sister is a vegetarian and would never wear fur, and yet I am a meat eater who would. I would never try and make her change her mind as I'm sure she feels the same way about me.

My reasearch has lead me some dark alleyways of knowledge, I don't know if any of you have come across them, if you have, you'll humour me here.

I have discovered, while cruel, the creation of a lot of faux hides and pelts is crueler. I doubt many of you will believe I am an animal lover but I also a people lover and when I read about the child labour involved in making these things, I knew, given the choice, I value the lives of humans over animals. So many of you who wear faux, believing it to be kinder should check the origin of your possessions. It should also be noted, someone suggested I endorsed slave labour, I'd advise them to read my post again. I think you got a little carried away, or perhaps you were addressing someone else?

There are also people who are judging my entire character based on a single comment: ("I can't quite decide which is uglier, your inside or your outside"). I discussed with my friends recently whether they'd wear fur and what they think of anti-fur people. And most of them, actually did the same to you as you did to me, judging you all based on what little they knew. Anti-fur people were described as: "Freaks", "jealous", "extremeists" and "cruel". Funny, that, isn't it? That out of 20 people in the discussion EIGHTEEN of them think you're cruel, because they see anti-fur protestors attacking somebody's choice, questioning everything about them: their personality, their morals, whether they're good person on the inside, just because of what they wear on the outside. And I find it funny that we as a world are constantly being told to look on the inside, and nearly all of you have judged me, by my outside. And you haven't even seen it!

Finally, the last post I will address here is Darla's. Due to the severe nastiness of your post I am going to address you directly. Darla, what you said that you hope and pray for, I truly hope you do not, because the glimmer of character you showed with the single statement showed far more ugliness than the most selfish and vain fur wearing woman in the world. Wishing an evil, painful torture on another human being is absolutly deplorable and if you think that attitude combined with your choice not to wear fur makes you better than me? Well, I'll wear a mink any day.

Now, for all of those to tout Stella McCartney as the saviour of the anti-fur brigagde. I should point out to you that this woman is making an absolute fortune off of people who, in part, want to feel superior to someone in one way or another.

If I were to meet any of you in another situation, we'd probably get on quite well until this discussion was brought up. And if you have researched and made your own decision and got here yourselves, I respect that. However, I feel a lot of you are doing an injustice your beliefs by insulting and degrading people who do not agree with you. If many have you had talked passionatly about how you felt without throwing around careless insults, I would have read your posts, watched your videos and joined in a mature discussion. Instead I'm sitting and writing a long reply to people who's answers I don't care to hear and who have probably reaffirmed the descision I made when I was younger as being correct, glad that I have not turned into you.

The words of caution I have are these: throwing paint or destroying the fur of a wearer is illegal. You can (and probably) will be arrested for assault or battery and/or criminal damage.

To illustrate my point, a very good friend of mine inheirited a mink muff (it's like a tube that you put your hands in to keep warm in the winter, it's very old fashioned) from her grandmother when she died. It had belonged to her great grandmother and her great-great grandmother, it was originally Victorian and was in amazing condition. She loves vintage clothes, like me, and once wore it to university. During a break she hid the muff under her coat and asked a mutual acquantence to watch it while we got coffee. Returning a few short minutes later, said mutual friend was standing over her coat, cutting this beautiful item into shreds. My friend was devasted and to add insult to injury this person screamed at her for her selfishness and cruelty for wearing an animal that had been dead for almost 150 years. Family history and memories destroyed because two people disagreed and one could not discuss it or button her lip. Needless to say the police were phoned and the girl arrested and charged.

I doubt that any of you would be so reckless, but do you see my point?

I wonder, where will the line be drawn? Should we forgo pearls because of the cruelty to the oysters farmed for those beautiful jewels? Do any of you care as much for the people who are involved in nearly every country in the world in the sweatshops and slave trade as you do for these animals? Or is that OK because they're only humans and we have plenty more of those, just not many minks?

And for the record, this might give you all some pause for thought.

Would I buy a new leather bag, shoe or other? Yes. Would I buy a new alligator handbag or shoes? Possibly. Would I buy a brand new fur coat? Probably not. Would I buy a vintage one? Yes.

Now, ask yourselves this: Am I encouraging and promoting a cruel trade by wearing an animal skin that's been dead for fifty years. I sincerly doubt it.

hannah

okay, so i, would rather go naked then wear fur. i've been a vegetarian since december and i don't wear leather. i'll never wear fur, and i never will. but i have to say. as much as i respect her for doing something to help save innocent animals lives, isn't the whole point about going naked? i know she has to respect her diginity, but to me it just doesn't structure the argument properly if she just does it in her underwear.

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