Thursday, March 8, 2012
3/8/12
In most of the things in our lives we associate things as something that is feminine or masculine. One of those habits would be eating meat, when you think of someone eating a piece of stake you don't tend to think of a woman going to town on a t-bone. It is thought to be more of a womanly thing to do to eat something "safer" like a salad. But why should a woman be expected to only want to eat something safe when we are all supposed to be treated equal. A lot of this thinking is based on the belief of the way that things have been in our society and are now looked at as tradition. We are considered soft and fragile even though we are the ones that bear the children and most woman are single mom's now, that is far from weak. I know that times are changing so that is why most woman are looking to be looked as equals but I feel like we more than deserve it. If the times are changing shouldn't people's mindsets be changing to as to how we look and judge woman based on what was to be thought of us in the past?
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Rather than suggesting that society should remove the stigma from women's consumption of meat (a stigma which has largely disappeared in American society, by the way - it is simply that women tend to be more accepted than men if they choose to be vegetarians/vegans), it would probably be better than men's consumption of meat gains a stigma associated with it, and men's choosing to be vegetarians/vegans loses its stigma. While the article we read didn't go too far into the moral implications of meat-eating, they are considerable and negative. I do not support the idea of associating feminism with environmental concerns and animal rights, but perhaps it would be better to at least start changing gender roles with regards to meat consumption - simply in the other direction than the above post seems to be suggesting.
ReplyDeleteP.S. I also posted this on my blog if you'd rather read it there.