https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1399118440703696902?s=19

https://nitter.snopyta.org/nytimes/status/1399118440703696902?s=19

  • StLangoustine [any]
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    3 years ago

    There's a constant struggle session in animal-rights adjacent circles whether fighting for right of female animals is connected to feminism or if expecting women to have solidarity with cows is dehumanizing to women.

    • warped_fungus [she/her]
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      3 years ago

      Female is female across species if you ask me. The only difference is that we evolved fat frontal lobes, when you really get down to it.

        • HumanBehaviorByBjork [any, undecided]
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          3 years ago

          So's I understand, is the reading here that equating the gendering of humans, which is socially and individually constructed, with the sexing of animals, which is scientific and instrumentalist (for the purpose of producing and consuming the animals) incorrectly reduces the former to the latter? And could they instead be arguing that the gendered treatment of animals is also a human construct?

          • EthicalHumanMeat [he/him]
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            3 years ago

            Yeah, pretty much.

            Not so much the instrumentalist thing, though. Just saying that I don't think (non-human) animals can have genders, and so they can't be women, etc.

        • warped_fungus [she/her]
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          3 years ago

          sorry its not super specific but I just lump trans women in with my idea of female. Because trans animals don't exist that we know of yet, I feel like we can give a little pass on being decisive on a cow's gender.

      • StLangoustine [any]
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        3 years ago

        This whole line of thought runs a whole spectre of nuance from discussing the intersectional nature of oppression and destruction of environment to the idea that oppression of both women and cows is based on their reproduce abilities (which is occasionally criticized as transphobic).

        Here's a wikipedia article about this loosely defined movement.