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Woman changes name to a URL to protest dissections

welt.de — A 19-year-old Virginia woman has adopted a most unusual method of protest--by changing her name to a website address protesting animal dissection for scientific purposes. Her friends and family still call her Jennifer, however.

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  • manzplan, on 10/15/2008, -26/+24well thats just dumb.. hopefully it will make a difference.. but somehow I dunno...
    still I guess I give her credit for trying...
    • kevlar21, on 10/15/2008, -2/+73No. You can give her credit for trying, but fortunately it won't make any difference. Dissection is an important part of education as well as scientific and medical research. Even excluding this, PETA doesn't deserve any more attention than it gets already.
      • rzellers, on 10/16/2008, -1/+11Dissection is a very important part of science education and it pisses me off that PETA supporters don't recognize this. PETA is literally propaganda, with statements such as "What do dissections teach? Not much … except that it’s OK to chop up animals." It is wrong to dump money into advertisement campaigns where their target audience young kids (petakids.com) and then swaying their opinion by talking about violence, potentially scarring them for life.

        from http://www.petakids.com/disindex.html
      • bodisatvah, on 10/16/2008, -0/+6Almost every bit of media you're exposed to is propaganda of one sort of another.
      • jamesdew, on 10/16/2008, -1/+1Do American kids really cut up a live frog in class? Why not just kill it first? What possible benefit could come from cutting up the frog while it is alive?
    • feoren, on 10/15/2008, -4/+63Hopefully it WON'T make a difference. Her cause is ***** retarded. Let's protest everything that's icky, despite the fact that it allows for huge medical advances that save countless human lives at virtually no cost whatsoever. But it's so gross! ***** this bitch. It's just like PETA to prefer animals getting proper burials over humans getting good medical treatment. Until those ***** get cancer.
      • Claverhouse, on 10/16/2008, -31/+4***** off, you despicable little bastard.
      • Nitesmoke, on 10/16/2008, -2/+10PETA kills way more animals each year than all the high schools put together.
      • bugsy187, on 10/16/2008, -19/+3Is it fashionable to make fun of PETA? Why should we care what you have to say if it amounts to immature name calling and low blows?

        If you disagree with PETA, fine. Leave it at that or at least make a real argument. It's pretty obvious their intentions are honorable even if you disagree with their methods. Why do you need to get so riled up and paint this unrealistic caricature of them?
      • Eaststand, on 10/16/2008, -3/+6there intentions are not honourable, they are idiots, and this "unrealistic" caricature is anything but. Its all very well liking animals, but seeing them as people as they seem to think they are, is moronic. Animals are our food or whatever we choose to do with them, like teaching kids.
      • passedoutghost, on 10/16/2008, -0/+1"***** this bitch"..............how about no?
    • FTLJohnson, on 10/15/2008, -1/+10This isn't a new technique, Karin Robertson AKA GoVeg.com, she did this over half a decade ago...
    • danthepiercer, on 10/16/2008, -2/+2i guess somebody had to...


      give her credit for trying that is.
    • Tomchei, on 10/16/2008, -2/+11Make a difference how?

      Hope you never need your appendix taken out or any other type of surgery.
      In fact, just abandon physical examinations altogether.

      That crazy loon needs to be left alone.
    • annapanties, on 10/16/2008, -8/+4Uhhh, last time I checked, she's protesting dissection in middle and high school. Not university, med school, nor for scientific/medical research !!

      My junior high school had a computer program that simulated dissections, and IMO that is totally sufficient and less smelly.

      The difference between a bunch of eighth graders dissecting a frog and a bunch of med students dissecting a cadaver is like night and day.....


      • Rivetgeek, on 10/16/2008, -0/+5I dunno, they both still play catch with body parts.
      • Mononuclear, on 10/16/2008, -0/+6Her site does have a place on it for university so she is protesting that as well.
      • sadhesati, on 10/16/2008, -1/+5Nothing is going to substitute actually dissecting an animal and seeing its anatomy right in front of you. How are you going to know what it looks like IRL, as well as the variations (not every animal looks the same - you need to be able to differentiate body parts even when they don't look exactly like your textbook says it does)? How is a high school going to give its students interested in the medical field or biology an edge if they don't even give them the opportunity to dissect something?
    • minoss, on 10/16/2008, -1/+7I want to see her refuse all surgery for the rest of her life. Or any other medical advancement that dissection has helped bring forth.
  • Slovenian6474, on 10/15/2008, -0/+95"The Asheville High School graduate who is working in Virginia said she began opposing dissections in middle school after a class assignment to cut up a chicken wing made her uncomfortable."

    It's really not that bad once you cut through the Caribbean Jerk sauce.
    • johanrocks, on 10/16/2008, -1/+6The worst thing about this is that she hated cutting up that chicken wing so much that she eventually changed her name, but I'll bet she's eaten more than just a few chicken wings in her lifetime.
      • Ibox, on 10/16/2008, -0/+6Nah prolly a vegan...
      • EmperorPsiblade, on 10/16/2008, -0/+6Yeah, she's definitely nutty enough to be a vegan.
      • elmuerte17, on 10/16/2008, -0/+10she's interning at PETA... i'd say she's nutters beyond vegan.
    • passedoutghost, on 10/16/2008, -1/+1I remember having to do that. But our school sucked so we got blunt scalpels. Couldn't not do ***** with them. Eventually we gave up and started pulling at the muscles and tendons making them jerk up and down.
    • IKORKYI, on 10/16/2008, -0/+1sounds like someone's parents don't show enough attention
    • drunkenstyle, on 10/16/2008, -0/+1I'm surprised it grosses her out when you replace that kitchen knife with a scalpel.
  • badwithcomputer, on 10/15/2008, -4/+156that's stupid as hell.
    • aliveonline, on 10/16/2008, -3/+3yea like that..

      "Extreme Piercing

      Welcome to the Phuket Vegetarian Festival..."
    • valleyman86, on 10/16/2008, -3/+5Yea now advertisers are going to pay people to change their names!

      Besides her website is only worth $103 so far according to http://www.websitevaluecalculator.com/

      She is really unattractive... She has nothing going for her at all especially now.
      • RunawayElf, on 10/16/2008, -1/+4Website Value Report for digg.com

        Your site is worth $1,322,049,612


        Lol?
      • pe5t1lence, on 10/16/2008, -0/+5@Elf, that is internet dollars though.
      • valleyman86, on 10/16/2008, -0/+2Yea man its theoretical money.
    • rgodfrey, on 10/16/2008, -0/+2My Name Is URL
    • spyder91, on 10/16/2008, -0/+7Wait until someone redirects her name to porn.
    • schnitzelnoodle, on 10/16/2008, -0/+2well, let's hope she was drunk or something..
  • twisterrust, on 10/15/2008, -5/+62Attention Whore?
    and associating herself with PETA would also give her greater credibility /s
  • sdub86, on 10/15/2008, -7/+30There are just so many way more important issues in this world than this. Bitch needs a reality check...or a good dickin'.
  • Lynxist, on 10/15/2008, -2/+25She had better be a militant vegetarian or she's lost all of credibility, assuming she had some to begin with.
  • 10goto10, on 10/15/2008, -1/+52"The former Jennifer Thornburg – whose driver’s license now reads Dissection.com, Cutout – wanted to do something to protest animal dissections in schools."

    So, how's linking to a death metal band called Dissection working out for the protest against animal dissections?
  • maraishein, on 10/15/2008, -1/+10That is extreme to get a simple point across.
  • antonyr, on 10/15/2008, -7/+3thats commitment
  • Jasper710, on 10/15/2008, -4/+45WOMEN! M I RIGHT?
  • feoren, on 10/15/2008, -1/+43It's a good thing Han Solo wasn't a member of PETA, or he couldn't have dissected that tauntaun and Luke would have died on Hoth!
    • Cenobite, on 10/16/2008, -0/+9Jesus, dude. Best anti-PETA argument ever, ever.
    • bagboyrebel, on 10/16/2008, -0/+3I'll have to remember that one.
  • veronica1, on 10/15/2008, -1/+9My new protest name? Big Douchebag dot com to protest all the dooshy guys that try to hook up with me!
    • Bith8654, on 10/16/2008, -0/+6Well if it makes you feel any better, changing your name to that might deter a guy or two. But judging by your profile picture, you're gonna need more than just a weird name to keep them away.

    • passedoutghost, on 10/16/2008, -0/+3Wait, if you name yourself bigdouchebag.com, wouldn't that imply you're the "big douchebag"?
    • hawk0168, on 10/16/2008, -0/+3Women on my internet?
  • ileftfark, on 10/15/2008, -1/+11http://blog.peta2.com/2008/10/who_is_cutoutdissect ...

    Just sayin.
    • AriaStar, on 10/16/2008, -1/+6With a face like that, she needs attention somehow.
    • endlessfight, on 10/16/2008, -1/+18Judging by her photo, it's more like cutoutthecheeseburgers.com.
      • Cenobite, on 10/16/2008, -0/+5Ruthless, but effective. I award you an A+ and a digg.
    • Vanquiz, on 10/16/2008, -0/+3I almost bet that she's a blonde, guess I was wrong.
  • avataros, on 10/15/2008, -2/+10I almost feel like encouraging a DDoS attack on her name just out of principle.

    It's almost as wacky as the town that renamed itself after some .com during the tech bubble. Or that tool of a dad that named his newborn daughter Sarah McCain Palin...(http://www.wbir.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid= ...
    • flagg85, on 10/16/2008, -2/+5Sarah McCain Palin? WTF

      Ciptak, a blood bank employee for the American Red Cross, said he named his third child after John McCain and Sarah Palin to “to get the word out” about the campaign.
      “I took one for the cause,” he said. “I can’t give a lot of financial support for the (McCain/Palin) campaign. I do have a sign up in my yard, but I can do very little.”

      http://wwwwakeupamericans-spree.blogspot.com/2008/ ...
  • leerayIG88, on 10/16/2008, -2/+12Can i change my name to omgwtfbbq?
  • MakanGuru, on 10/16/2008, -0/+4i blame prince......
  • TrevorPace, on 10/16/2008, -1/+9Wait they dissect live frogs? We made sure they were dead before we started.
    • venom8599, on 10/16/2008, -1/+18If they were alive it would be vivisection.
  • Eagle193, on 10/16/2008, -8/+2That's a good way to advertise a domain. Props for thinking outside the box.
    • ThermiteTerrace, on 10/16/2008, -0/+7So who's gonna change their name to 2girls1cup.com? Or Icanhazcheezburger.com?

      ***** it...I want a driver's license and passport that read CX, GOATSE.
  • DickyT83, on 10/16/2008, -0/+5WHAT THE *****
  • TexasShiv, on 10/16/2008, -2/+42Anyone who protest scientific/medical dissections is a complete and utter moron.
  • smrekar, on 10/16/2008, -5/+261.Dumb.
    2.That is a girl, not a woman.
    • Cenobite, on 10/16/2008, -1/+2Her ID says no, but her desire for the candy in the back of my van says YES!
  • aliveonline, on 10/16/2008, -0/+3what a waste of time.. just stories about some frog prince..
  • MalaysianMafia, on 10/16/2008, -5/+34yeah! screw teaching people about biology with hands on experience! we can just learn it from pictures!

    ***** hippies.
    • AirRaven, on 10/16/2008, -11/+3Would you particularly relish experimenting on live mice yourself?
      Not that that's the background of this particular exercise in pointlessness, but would you happily do it without feeling even a shred of empathy for the things?

      Anti-Vivisectionists *do* have a valid point behind the general loopiness of their approach. Whether or not that point weighs up to the arguments towards vivisection's up to personal choice.
      It's a barbaric practice- I don't think there's a person alive who wouldn't drop it in a heartbeat if an equally effective, less abhorrent alternative came along.
      • netdroid9, on 10/16/2008, -2/+8Yes. Yes I would.
      • ThatGeek, on 10/16/2008, -1/+11this isnt vivisection... its dissection
        there is a difference
      • scoottie, on 10/16/2008, -2/+8"if an equally effective, less abhorrent alternative came along."


        that's a big if, but ok show us this alternative. until then we will keep cutting frogs and mice
      • sputza, on 10/16/2008, -1/+6***** hippie!
    • milkmage, on 10/16/2008, -1/+2so where have you applied all that you learned in high school biology in your adult life.. hell, are you even an adult? what practical knowledge can be gained from hands on dissection that can't be gained from pictures or even a simulation? http://www.froguts.com/flash_content/index.html

    • rzellers, on 10/16/2008, -3/+1From http://www.petakids.com/disindex.html

      "What do dissections teach? Not much … except that it’s OK to chop up animals."
      • Nicko01, on 10/16/2008, -0/+5Sounds like fun!
      • grungefan, on 10/16/2008, -0/+4I'm chopping up an animal right now...and then devouring it! Take that PETA!
    • Saq0, on 10/16/2008, -1/+2ya, lets have the teachers just whip it out in sex ed amirite??
  • zad1, on 10/16/2008, -6/+5http://www.dissction.com

    Why I do get a black metal band websites when I enter her URL name? Hmmm
    • smackydoodle, on 10/16/2008, -1/+2This might be why...

      Article says Dissection.com, Cutout. Which means, it's Cutout Dissection.com Try that one big guy.
    • milkmage, on 10/16/2008, -0/+7because you're a moron and can't ***** read. that's why.
    • fxu1989, on 10/16/2008, -2/+4I get a:

      Server not found
      Firefox can't find the server at www.dissction.com.
    • Cargo8, on 10/16/2008, -0/+1I would have done www.froguts.com instead...
  • xixphz, on 10/16/2008, -2/+33LOOK AT ME IM AN ATTENTION WHORE!!!!
  • smoothmann, on 10/16/2008, -9/+6Im going to change mine to.....

    get ready......

    icanhascheezburger.com
  • GregFD3S, on 10/16/2008, -11/+3*changes his name to zeitgeistmovie.com*
  • mitch3323, on 10/16/2008, -1/+11what a loser dissections are fun and very educational
    i do however dont think they should be forced upon students
    there should be alternatives for those who do not wish to dissect
  • jwquinlan, on 10/16/2008, -6/+3Why does she name herself for the good of a greater evil going on?

    Like she could have named herself to stop people from stepping on rugs.

    Something besides what she's done. Maybe like against the dissecting of human fetuses in the womb or poking scissors in the back of their heads and sucking their brains out like in partial birth abortion. ... No, she's probably an obamamite and supports that -- but don't dissect dead animals!
  • D3PyroGS, on 10/16/2008, -1/+19I like how Dissection.com is her last name and Cutout is her first. But then, naturally, there would be a space between the two so it would be cutout%20dissection.com and how hard would *that* be to say? It's 11 freaking syllables!
  • rzellers, on 10/16/2008, -1/+3I think ill change my name to http://www.mtd.com/tasty/
  • AwsmGy, on 10/16/2008, -1/+9I wasn't a fan of dissections in high school mostly because the classroom smelled like ***** for the next week.
  • gcnaddict, on 10/16/2008, -1/+5I'm ashamed to know that this girl is from my state. Some sacrifices are to be made for the sake of education, which is why most dead frogs and pig fetuses are already dead prior to selection for this use. Same with human cadavers.

    Why do we have such attention whores from Virginia? It's like a genetic defect.
    • ileftfark, on 10/16/2008, -0/+7But what about the dead frogs and pig fetuses that are still alive?
  • icechen1, on 10/16/2008, -0/+7She's not the only one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unusual_perso ...

    # GoldenPalace.com (Pronounced Golden Palace Dot Com). In March 2005, the casino paid Terri Iligan $15,000 after winning an E-Bay Auction to legally change her name.[65]
    # KentuckyFriedCruelty.com, An animal activist who changed his name to support the Kentucky Fried Cruelty campaign.
    • halloweenkat, on 10/16/2008, -0/+4I wonder if she had to sign a contract stating that she wouldn't change her name back after receiving the money.
    • blix797, on 10/16/2008, -0/+3Mmmmm, KFC. Yum.
    • elmuerte17, on 10/16/2008, -0/+4mmm, tasty tasty kentucky fried cruelty.
  • andyhite, on 10/16/2008, -1/+13I'm totally changing my name to Andrew'); DROP TABLE students;--
  • ArthurSucks, on 10/16/2008, -2/+6This has to be the lamest more pathetic attempt at attention whoring I've seen since Dancing with the Stars.
  • ZeMeisterstuck, on 10/16/2008, -1/+14Her drivers licence: (she's not pretty fyi)

    http://blog.peta2.com/cutout_license_updated.PNG
    • Eaststand, on 10/16/2008, -1/+2shes never going to have sex, except maybe with a frog.........
    • passedoutghost, on 10/16/2008, -2/+3We already went to www.cutoutdissections.com It wasn't pretty there, and it's not pretty here.
    • anononon, on 10/16/2008, -1/+3I can't unsee it!
  • mavranos, on 10/16/2008, -1/+5Idiotic! Honestly I can't even begin to address how stupid that is. If all the assholes worrying about animal rights would spend half their time on human rights the world might be a better place. PETA makes me want to murder my pets and I likemy pets.
    • Claverhouse, on 10/16/2008, -2/+2Why are human rights more important than animal's rights ( if one even believes in 'rights' ) ? Humans like yourself merely encumber the earth and make it worse. At least animals in nature live properly.
      • mavranos, on 10/16/2008, -0/+4Well Claverhouse, we are able to reason. That makes us better than animals. They are here for us to use as we see fit. Do you think civilization would be where it is today without the use (exploitation) of animals? And left to their own devices animals do NOT live "properly". They eat each other and stuff.
      • askantik, on 10/16/2008, -1/+3Disclaimer: PETA is *****. This person in the article is *****. Many animal rights advocates seek only attention for themselves. On to my comment:

        So I am better than an infant? I am better than a mentally handicapped person? They cannot reason, and I can. Therefore, I have a greater right to life than them. That is correct, by your logic.

        The ability to reason is not a gradient with which to determine worth. I know that you think you're the first to think that humans are better than animals, but it has long been addressed. Look up Jeremy Bentham or Peter Singer.

        Furthermore, there is a large difference between exploitation of animals for subsistence (when it is necessary for survival) than for pleasure. We no longer need animals to survive (indeed, I'm not even arguing that we ever truly depended on animals... gorillas eat 98% plant material... however, one could argue environment, etc, but that is another story). Rather, we exploit them and knowingly cause pain and suffering unnecessarily-- almost as if we couldn't reason. And finally, one could obviously presume that if we cared for other animals, we would also have a greater affection for our brothers and sisters. Naturally, I am not saying that we should put animals above humans-- simply saying that just because they are not humans does not make them worthless and expendable resources.

        People always point out that a lion takes a gazelle and cares not for the gazelle. Well, besides the lion's biological requirements that differ from ours, the lion, by your own logic, cannot reason.

        However, I will disagree with Claverhouse's "Animals live in nature properly." All of this is pre-defined by arbitrary principles. There is no right or wrong way to live in nature. Similarly, there are not pre-defined values for what organisms are more important than others. In the end, we must each give sufficient, in-depth thought to both our philosophies and our subsequent actions and then go from there.

        I could discuss this all day, but it's a bit futile since people see only the PETA nutjobs and then do not give people who try to act intelligently a fair chance.
      • Eaststand, on 10/16/2008, -0/+2coz humans have reasoning powers, animals are... well, food.
  • danthepiercer, on 10/16/2008, -1/+27dear dissection.com,

    keep up the fight.
    they cant laugh at us forever.


    sincerely,
    savethewhales.com
  • hmmdar, on 10/16/2008, -3/+7Did anyone else just read the title comment as "19 year old virgin woman" ?
  • ThatGeek, on 10/16/2008, -2/+4stupid bitch... has she ever done a dissection.

    I learned more about the human body from dissections than i could have ever from a stupid simulation or text book
  • BossKey, on 10/16/2008, -1/+5We should take bets on which year she switches her legal name back. Is she really going to put up with this when she's 37 and on to other things in life?
  • CertifiedBaller, on 10/16/2008, -0/+3stupid....
  • theryanocerous, on 10/16/2008, -2/+11PETA members are crazy... I don't know this girl but I'm fairly confident shes a mentally handicapped attention whore...
  • jedimasta, on 10/16/2008, -1/+7PETA = Money grubbing front.

    This is a perfect example of a young mind being twisted by manipulative lobbyists. Someone ought to tell her about the giant freezer PETA keeps on their property. They aren't storing ice cream sandwiches, that's for sure.
  • LukeFranklin, on 10/16/2008, -2/+3Well that was dumb, Animal dissection! What a stupid thing to protest about.
  • halloweenkat, on 10/16/2008, -0/+3Are there volunteers that want to change their last name to digg.com?
  • scoottie, on 10/16/2008, -4/+3dumbass
  • hmunkey, on 10/16/2008, -1/+16Um, dissections of animals for scientific purposes is not a bad thing. Science is the future, like it or not.

    And this is coming from a vegetarian.
    • askantik, on 10/16/2008, -5/+5Yeah, but you forget that dissection of animals, particularly in *****' middle school, is far from scientific. It's ***** dweebs poking scalpels at dead animals and going, "Ewww!!!"

      Anyhow, as a vegan, animal dissection is *****. But PETA is even *****.
    • dellegazze, on 10/16/2008, -2/+3I agree to the above comment. I'm a vegetarian, and i found dissecting frogs completely pointless in bio. Other people have already dissected frogs - I'm fairly certain the knowledge that is to be gained has already been documented.

      Also, ***** PETA.
    • CandystripeLegs, on 10/16/2008, -2/+2Agree with above two posts. It has its place in science but not when you're a teenager who just wants to see what the insides of a rat's testicle looks like.

      My roommate is a biology major and wanted to be a researcher but she changed her mind, apparently its very common for mice and rats to be very maltreated in labs :( She didn't give me specifics because she knew it would upset me, but man if you're gonna subject an animal to tests and dissections treat them with respect.
  • robbob, on 10/16/2008, -1/+3fool
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