well how prey tell do we get to this one is it that meat is sex?meat is politics? meat is food?in her book The Sexual Politics Of Meat A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory,Carol J.Adams says fairy tales initiate us at an early age into the dynamics of eating and sex roles.The king in his countinghouse ate four-and-twenty blackbirds in a pie(originally four-and-twenty-naughty boys.) While the queen ate bread and honey. Cannibalism in fairy tales is generally a male(man's) activity, as Jack,after climbing his beanstalk,quickly learned.Folktales of all nations depict giants as male (men) and "fond of eating human flesh".Witches warped or monstrous women in the eyes of a patriarchal world-become the token female (women)cannibals. Now i think i am beginning to see the connection between the attempt to destroy the use of meat in a (LHD in wimmin-only space). u know when i think about it the referring to myself and other wimmin as meat is not i said is not a womon's thang,nor is the referring to my genitals as or other wimmin as meat is not i said is not a womon's thang it seems that again i and other wimmin i know are being required to take on the task of eating my meat and now someone else's meat. do u know in some parts of the world the implying of eating your meat or someone else's is a signal of unsavory sexual behaviour?
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