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

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

  • 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.