Thursday, May 24, 2007

meat sex politics

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?