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Strangest book to cross my desk so far today:
The Sexual Politics of Meat by Carol J. Adams.
Apparently meat-eating is a misogynist act that upholds the patriarchy and supports war.
"The meat metaphors rape victims choose to describe their experience and the use of the "rape rack" [a rack that enables the insemination of animals against their will] suggest that rape is parallel and related to consumption, consumption both of images of women and of literal, animal flesh. Rape victims' repeated use of of the word "hamburger" to describe the result of penetration, violation, being prepared for market, implies not only how unpleasurable being a piece of meat is, but also that animals can be victims of rape. They have been penetrated, violated, prepared for market against their will."
"The first step in the vegetarian quest is experiencing the revelation of the nothingness of meat as an item of food."
Also according to the book, the symbolic distancing of living animals from meat in the human purview is patriarchal.
Uhm.
It's got a point about the feminization of certain metaphors and the idea that meat consumption is not only healthy but ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY for a virile man-- but the idea that eating meat supports the patriarchy and TWU feminists will see through the "symbolic language" (i.e. LIES) and understand that eating meat involves death ZOMG is sort of... yeah.
The Sexual Politics of Meat by Carol J. Adams.
Apparently meat-eating is a misogynist act that upholds the patriarchy and supports war.
"The meat metaphors rape victims choose to describe their experience and the use of the "rape rack" [a rack that enables the insemination of animals against their will] suggest that rape is parallel and related to consumption, consumption both of images of women and of literal, animal flesh. Rape victims' repeated use of of the word "hamburger" to describe the result of penetration, violation, being prepared for market, implies not only how unpleasurable being a piece of meat is, but also that animals can be victims of rape. They have been penetrated, violated, prepared for market against their will."
"The first step in the vegetarian quest is experiencing the revelation of the nothingness of meat as an item of food."
Also according to the book, the symbolic distancing of living animals from meat in the human purview is patriarchal.
Uhm.
It's got a point about the feminization of certain metaphors and the idea that meat consumption is not only healthy but ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY for a virile man-- but the idea that eating meat supports the patriarchy and TWU feminists will see through the "symbolic language" (i.e. LIES) and understand that eating meat involves death ZOMG is sort of... yeah.