'The Pornography of Meat': School offers course exploring connection between misogyny and meat

Campus Reform ^ | 10/23/13 | Katherine Timpf

[Libloather]

A California college has invited a speaker to teach students that eating meat is misogynistic, and that our society degrades fish because "we don't view them as individuals."

The lecture, titled "The Sexual Politics of Meat," will take place at the University of Redlands on Monday, and is to explore the "relationship between patriarchal values and meat eating by interweaving the insights of feminism, vegetarianism, animal defense, and literary theory," according to the official website of the speaker, Carol J. Adams.

The lecture will be based on a book she wrote by the same name, which explores "the hidden connections between meat eating and patriarchy, between vegetarianism and feminism."

[Libloather]

Speaker believes steakhouses are 'examples of a culture of male-dominant consumption of meat and women'

Only in my dreams.

[muir_redwoods]

Sounds like someone is dating the wrong species.

[dfwgator]

[Berosus]

My wife is so crazy about seafood, she’d rather have fish than flowers. What does that make her?

[Repeat Offender]

Well, at the Texas Roadhouse in Jacksonville, NC, every hour they crank up the music and the waitressess line dance.

My ex-wife (from TX) exclaimed, upon first seeing this, "they, don't really do that in Texas!!!!"

"Shhhhh, you're ruining it."

[RichInOC]

“Guys! Beef: it’s what’s for dinner! Who wants some man meat?”
“I do! I want some man meat!”
“Michael, Dwight would like your man meat.”
“Well then, my man meat he shall have.”

[DustyMoment]

Faux liberal intellectualism passing as philosophical genius.

Makes me ill that so many are suckered into this crap!

[pallis]

What’s weirder than this course is that students will sign up for it. The ones who do deserve the education they get.

[Lockbox]

but what about the vegetables, they have feelings also............

[Q-ManRN]

Makes me think of Bill Clinton!

[Noumenon]

Pretentious bullshit.

[kcvl]

“My wife is so crazy about seafood, she’d rather have fish than flowers. What does that make her?”

A great wife with common sense.

[Rebelbase]

Funny, during my 4 month venture into vegetarianism which ended in spectacular FAIL a few weeks ago I don’t recall detecting any changes in my attitude towards women.

[Hardraade]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48H7zOQrX3U

[kcvl]

“Pretentious bullshit.”

Exactly!

[familyop]

Paid for by the political and social elite who control politicians, schools and the media through their sponsorships. They harbor the belief that this world isn’t big enough for worthy folks like them and trash like the rest of us.

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

Carrots and bananas can attend this course for free.

[Venturer]

Sexual Politics of Meat,

I think this speaker needs to do something with her meat, she doesn’t know eating from copulation.

[Rennes Templar]

I have a niece, 18, who is a vegetarian. What kind of vegetarian I asked her. She won't eat anything with a face on it.

I tell her I'm a meat-eating vegetarian. She walks away in a huff.

[DoughtyOne]

...patriarchal values and meat eating...

ROTFLMAO