Of Wolves and Women.

[naamah_darling]

I was reading this article yesterday about the wolves of Denali National Park in Alaska. The narrative is unflinching in its description of hunting practices, and it's also very long. It's worthwhile though: thought-provoking, sad, and beautiful. It's from January, but the central conflict - conservationists vs. hunters* - is one that is still

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[batchfile]

excellent.

a long time ago i got into the habit of telling everyone that i USED to be domesticated, but had since gone feral and was of no further use as a food cooking, house cleaning servant.

my ability to get second dates, and now any dates at all, decreased significantly.

sometimes i actually care. but mostly not.

[batchfile]

except, from the reactions i get, it must mean that ALL men are jerks. which is sad.

[kyra_neko_rei]

They are a large and artificially enhanced segment of the population, given that society teaches men to be like that and then rewards them for it.

Yet another thing Patrairchy inflicts on women, taking the boys who would turn into decent men and going: "See? Pussy. Not human."

I know the feeling. I'm fairly equally attracted to males and females, but the people I consider respectful enough to be relationship material, and more so trust-them-to-tie-me-up material, are overwhelmingly female.

if you haven't already

[autodidactic]

You really should read "The Sexual Politics of Meat" if you haven't already. It's hard to read that and keep eating meat (I do by sheer denial, I guess.) BUT a lot of the points you bring up here are reflected in there.

Re: if you haven't already

[naamah_darling]

It does bother me sometimes, but I eat meat anyway because I feel like shit when I don't, and even the tastiest veggies just don't taste all that good to me.

I eat meat, but at least I don't claim to "love" cows or chickens or shrimp or fish.

Re: if you haven't already

[elialshadowpine]

Ditto this. I crave red meat and sushi (... I don't get that last one) at certain times like crazy. I'm not technically anemic, but I feel like shit if I don't eat meat of some kind.

But, um, well. I've never looked at most prey animals and thought "Aw cute". "Yum, dinner" was more likely the reaction. >_>

[naamah_darling]

Link away!

[sismith42]

Wow, really thought provoking, thanks! (found this through arkady's re-post) I hope you don't mind, but I've also linked to it as I think there's some people on my f-list who NEED to read this...

[nighthellcat]

I've always felt more like a cow myself. Perhaps it's because I identify with "Taurus". (But a bull is male...) Perhaps it's because I've often felt like everyone expects me to get married and have baaabies. (Marriage, I want. Babies, not happening!) Maybe it's because that's the standard thing to call a fat girl. (HEARD IT!)

I can't really expand this into a proper metaphor. But I lie somewhere between a steak (delicious) and Mad-cow disease (dangerous).

Somehow, I'm okay with that.

[randomdiversion]

Hathor was represented as a cow because cows were considered good mothers and fierce defenders of their calves.

Nothing wrong with 'feeling like a cow'. From another viewpoint, that makes you a goddess.

[naamah_darling]

Well, and then you have Hathor.

[flewellyn]

That's a fascinating parallel. Very interesting.

Edit: I dropped a link to this post into the Monday Blogaround at Shakesville. I hope that's okay; I didn't ask first because I know you're generally fine with linkage of public posts.

[naamah_darling]

Cool! That's fine with me.

[flewellyn]

I figured as much.