PETA Asks Games Workshop to Ban ‘Fur’ from Warhammer Characters.

[KingDobbs]

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Still seems a strange choice, I mean games Workshop aren't exactly a household name outside of geek circles and any coverage they get of this story is going to be of the 'PETA are being petty clueless idiots' variety.

This quote is pure gold though



Seriously have they even *read* anything about the Warhammer universe?

This is the Internet age. Putting their outrage on a Twitter feed or blog costs them nothing, yet people will happily retweet and link.

 

[Rachel Cartacos]

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There's a Peta UK??

 

[Coyote's Own]

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Scooped by our glorious Commisar over in Other Games

 

[Cessna]

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Scooped by our glorious Commisar over in Other Games

I did it eight hours ago...

Threads merged.

 

[hippokrene]

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I don't find PETA's actions odd at all. If you consider a practice unethical and a work of fiction presents it as awesome, then asking the creators to stop doing that makes sense. Every argument for why Iron Wolves wearing fur doesn't 'really matter' could be applied to why women wearing space-bikinis for armor doesn't 'really matter.'

Also, this quote is great: “nothing on the bloody battlefields of Warhammer’s conflict-ravaged universe could match the terrible reality of the fur trade.” That type of poetic and hyperbolic language fits perfectly. Yes, article-dude, they are saying that the fur trade is worse than nightmarish horrors erupting across a planet and sucking it and its 850 million citizens into chaos-hell.

"Heretics" jokes aside, I'm surprised...wait, no, I'm...nope, that letter doesn't make any sense. Considering many of the groups in game who wear leather tend to be dying at the hands of giant genocidal warriors wearing a ton of steel, there's little argument to be made that it glorifies characters wearing leather.

Also, it takes no skill? That's assuming the characters are wearing minx fur, instead of the fur of some rare ice planet monstrosity that required a legion of guardsmen just to slow it down.

Wearing fur in fantasy/space fantasy is often a mark of rugged individualism, 'wildness,' or ferocity. Having a group of awesome warrior run around in fur to show they're cool vikings is certainly glorifying wearing fur.

Plus, when you ask someone to change something, you should offer an alternative. "Stop wearing fur!" "Okay, now our models are nude." "Keep nudity out of the hands of children!"

PETA is fine with nudity. That other people might protest it isn't an argument against them.

 

[Rogue 7]

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I honestly think I have a pretty clear picture of what happened here: A PETA UK staffer was into 40K, and was browsing Space Wolf models while at work. He gets caught by his bosses, and desperately spins it as "doing research into these plastic miniatures wearing fur". Somehow, he rolls a natural 20 on an untrained bluff check, and his bosses think it's a great idea. I imagine he's rather bemused by how it all worked out.

 

[jimthegray]

PETA Asks Games Workshop to Ban ‘Fur’ from Warhammer Characters.

One more time...

PETA Asks Games Workshop to Ban ‘Fur’ from Warhammer Characters.

My first thought was that this was pretty funny. A few joke websites clearly follow 40K and know enough about it to get some good lines in, like Isis Declares Fatwa Against Age of Sigmar from last year.

But this - this is on PETA's UK website. And the letter itself, if legit, is just perfect...

everytime i feel that my disdain for peta has found a limit they exceed my expectations

 

[hippokrene]

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I honestly think I have a pretty clear picture of what happened here: A PETA UK staffer was into 40K, and was browsing Space Wolf models while at work. He gets caught by his bosses, and desperately spins it as "doing research into these plastic miniatures wearing fur". Somehow, he rolls a natural 20 on an untrained bluff check, and his bosses think it's a great idea. I imagine he's rather bemused by how it all worked out.

Yes, maybe a bizarre and unlikely series of events happened.

Or maybe someone who is part of PETA UK is also a fan of WH40K and would like them to stop using fur and leather in their character designs.

 

[Rogue 7]

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Yes, maybe a bizarre and unlikely series of events happened.

Or maybe someone who is part of PETA UK is also a fan of WH40K and would like them to stop using fur and leather in their character designs.

If browsing off-topic websites while you're at work is "bizzare and unlikely", you and I have very different perceptions of what a typical day at the office is like.

 

[Cessna]

Or maybe someone who is part of PETA UK is also a fan of WH40K and would like them to stop using fur and leather in their character designs.

I'll point out that 40K has, among other things...

The "Flayed Ones," genocidal robots that wear the skin of their enemies:

Dark Eldar Archons, who wear the skin of their enemies:

Dark Eldar Haeomnculi, who wear the skin of their enemies:

Fabius Bile, who wears a coat made from the skin of his enemies:

Chaos lords, who wear... Oh, you get the idea:

Clearly the problem here is that the fur hasn't been properly tanned before wear.