Posted on 07/16/2015 11:00:36 AM PDT by rightistight
The Vegan Feminist Network, which says its mission is to "eradicate oppression from the Nonhuman Animal rights movement and improve inclusiveness through dialogue and educational resources," has warned women to stop stripping off their clothes in favor of veganism.
The article, titled Dear New Vegan, was written by Corey Lee Wrenn, who teaches Sociology at Colorado State University. In the piece, Ms. Wrenn explains to women what they might experience now that they've decided to stop eating meat or animal products.
"You may start to realize that being vegan is one thing, but being vegan and female-identified is another one altogether," she writes. It continues later, emphasis hers, "If you decide that simply being vegan isn’t enough and that you want to get involved with activism, you are going to come up against more male violence."
If you become an activist, Ms. Wrenn details, you have to be careful of male vegans, as they "control" the movement. And let's face it, the article says, "You might start to think that getting naked for the cause is “liberating.”"
But you need to be careful. Wrenn warns, "It may not be men directly telling you to get naked (women are in on it, too), but the patriarchal norms of the movement have created an environment where women are simply expected to become sex objects “for the animals.”"
If you start wanting to take off your clothes, "woah, stop." You need to "think again," Ms. Wrenn writes. She continues (emphasis hers), "Consider also that only thin, white, cis women are allowed to “empower” themselves for other animals, and that turning men on sexually is not the same as turning men on to veganism. Empirical research shows that facilitating the oppression of women does not challenge the oppression of other animals."
At the end of the piece, Wrenn adds, "P.S. If you are a woman of color, that’s a whole extra set of challenges. As a white woman myself, I can’t speak to the depth of these challenges, but I can tell you that the vegan movement can be a really nasty “color blind” place at times."
That about says it all
Hey hey hey .... lets not make hasty demands professor.
Indeed, did the VFN consult with Laz for a second opinion?
Send this email to Canada for Pam Anderson’s benefit. She should have stopped this kind of posing years ago. By the way, what does ‘CIS’ mean nowadays. Looks like some sort of adverb.
How about just the fat ones stop getting naked. Let the slender ones strip away!
She wants to strip the last bit of value vegan activists have to offer the world just because men might enjoy it too.
I’m all for that young woman that dresses like a tiger for Peta to continue doing that. Is there a pic of this academic?
In the decades to follow, I’ll be curious to see an average lifespan of vegans. Vegetarians are one thing and their diet can be fairly easy to follow like Asian or Indian food. But vegans are altogether demented and malnutritioned.
What the Hell is she saying? This makes no sense. I guess you need a PhD to understand this nonsense.
Please! For the love of all aesthetic sensibility, KEEP YOUR CLOTHES ON vegan women!
For those curious, here’s her faculty profile at CSU:
http://central.colostate.edu/people/cwrenn/
If wonder if Laz would hit it...
The “cis” thing is just a term made up by the gender-benders in the social justice world to denigrate non-homos and non-trannies. A good substitute for it is NORMAL.
In Latin "trans" means "the other side" and "cis" means "this side."
The only real English word I can point to for demonstration is "cismontane" to describe someone or something that is on the same side of a mountain as you are.
Because Bruce Jenner is a man who wants to pretend to be a woman he is called a "transwoman" in academic jargon, whereas Kate Upton, who is a woman and apparently happy to be one, is a "ciswoman."
“but I can tell you that the vegan movement can be a really nasty “color blind” place at times.”
Perish the thought that we should be ‘colour blind’.
It’s an invented prefix that they are using because they don’t want to use the word “normal”. Because, you know, using a term like “normal women”, as opposed to “trans women”, would make you think there is something NOT normal about the “trans women”, and they can’t have that. So they invented “cis” instead, to try to avoid people noticing the obvious.
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