Saturday, June 23, 2007
FEMINISTS? WHAT IS A?
So here we all are talking with each other as we eat a wonder-filled meal of fried tofu, brown rice, kale,green beans,and watermelon, very good meal the wimmin who cook do it very well, and we are doing this of course in a ( LHD-in-wimmin-only space). As we were eating one of the new wimmin ask does anyone here consider herself a Feminist?There were 7 of us there and 3 of the wimmin said yes, 3 others identified themselves as lesbian separatist feminist, the other one identified herself as a radical lesbian separatist but not feminist, I had always identified myself as a lesbian separatist dyke.Then the young womon ask are the ones of you who identify as feminist vegetarians? Evey one became silent, i said i do not identify as a feminist i do identify as a lesbian separatist dyke and i am vegetarian/vegan.One of the wimmin who identified as a feminist said she was not a vegetarian and really did not see what one thing had to do with the other,the other two agreed with her but never stated if they were or were not vegetarians. I said how could you speak of misogyny, violence, abuse, war, feminism, and at the same time not see the connections between being vegetarian and feminist? How can you justify the killing of animals for human consumption and not see how that same justification is used to create just wars, eating and killing animals and killing humans,and, also do you realize to challenge meat eating is also to challenge war and men? What prompts women to eat what they know has been killed by man and renamed to appear as food? What causes women to participate in an act that is so obviously misogynist and violent? What happens to the nurturing aspects of being a nurturer when women consume meat? What happens to a womon who consumes the flesh of a dead animal that causes her to not see what she is doing? Is this an example of renaming by societies ruled by men? Is this an example of women accepting the renaming of self, but not the renaming of self by self? Do feminists have an obligation to all life?,or just some of it,or what? Can one really be a feminist and eat dead animals called meat? So what is this really about? How come so many feminist dont want to talk about food ,or that, that is often call meat?
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