Ah, I understand. My mistake.

Yeah. For me it was obvious PTSD and stomachaches and stuff like that, but yeah. Someone else calling that shit out would have made a world of difference.

You suggested that we take responsibility for orcas specifically because the death of the orca species would have a detrimental impact on their ecosystem.

I feel like you are playing respectability politics. Not every woman is in a position to legally report crimes like these—in fact, most are not. Women risk professional attacks as well as personal attacks from trolls if they come forward with details like these; for women therefore to choose the only method of…

Actually, that’s really only true in very rare cases. The studies I’ve seen show orca males living to about 45 max in the wild, thanks to the influence of pollution, disease, and other results of human contact. That study was completed about a decade ago, but I’ve yet to come across a more up-to-date study.

Humans have effectively destroyed the same ecosystem you’re suggesting we can somehow fix. If human intervention in nonhuman affairs has proven anything, it’s that we’re an utter failure at fixing the problems we’ve created on that front.

Because being tortured, having permanent sunburns, being forcibly masturbated so your semen could be used to incestuously create calves who will mostly die in childhood or infancy, being alone or stuck with strangers who abuse you out of loneliness and frustration, and being starved if you don’t perform for strangers…

I mean, sure, it ended with his death, five years later. By that logic, ANY attempt to reintroduce an animal would be unsuccessful. Every creature dies eventually.

I don’t even remember that happening, which is probably the point.

Not from the start. She was added about halfway through season one, and she disappeared before the last season began.

I agree with most of what you said, but please don’t assume that all white people are any which way or CAN be only one way. It’s not productive, and it’s actually pretty dehumanizing.

WORD. I mean it’s basically the same as Taylor Swift and Adele and all of these other people writing boring stories about their boring lives and relationships, through which white people live vicariously.

I would have liked some more actual information about the gowns, rather than just your personal reactions, if Jezebel was going to do this thing.

Isn’t “quite as amazing”? Well I’m so glad these animals’ misery and torture is providing you with a source of entertainment. After all, it’s your due—you’re a member of the human race!!

They CAN be released into the wild. Do you people who keep saying there aren’t want to actually do some research? Orcas have successfully been released into the wild.

Yeah, but it would be easy to just allow the public to view nearly healed marine mammals at the hospital or ask for funding for the other programs. The one goal does not necessitate the abuse.

WORD

Even zoos are messed up. A so-called “animal rescue” in Salem brings exotic animals—including a tiger—to the county fair, and keeps them there for hours at a time. This tiger was being kept in a cage about four times her length, with the crowd watching while she paced back and forth in clear agitation.

You’re being that person.

What is wrong with you? Sorry no one wants to fuck you but probably you belong someplace other than this board [like a mental institution].