Are we really small, or is eight inches just longer than people think it is? I suspect some might be surprised to learn that average length (U.S.) is about five to five and a half inches erect.

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Uuuggghh, I don’t, eight inches is already way too long for me.

Yeah I wish 8 inches were “normal size”. . .

Fine with me. Is it okay with you? Also, one can be an animal rights activist and a BLM activist. I promise that these two things aren’t mutually exclusive, and actually intersect in important ways. Sistah Vegan is a good resource if you are actually interested in understanding my perspective. If not, by all means…

I absolutely understand history. It is a history in which we treated humans like animals because we felt their difference justified it. Once we disabused ourselves of this ridiculous notion that they were different/lesser than us, we could no longer justify our enslavement, rape, and murder of them. The author of this…

Suffering is suffering. Why would you excuse anything that inflicts suffering on something that can experience it? When you read the paper each morning, do you think the guy who got beat up should just keep his mouth shut since another guy got killed? She never says it is equivalent to or worse than slavery, merely…

I think you’re making the common mistake of conflating “comparing” with “equating.”

No, she didn’t. The analogy isn’t slaughter = slavery (although many people do believe that). The analogy is slavery to “humane” slavery as slaughter is to “humane” slaughter. Think about it.

She’s not comparing animals to people. She’s trying to shine light on how open range farming is proposed as something “better” than factory farming, in the same way that people have made arguments for slavery under certain conditions.

Thank you for the clarification. I think that perhaps our point of disagreement is over the word ‘dehumanization’. From my own intersectional feminist perspective (which is strongly influenced by Haraway), dehumanization is actually the goal. Problematizing the naturalized boundary between human and animal is not…

That isn’t a comparison of what’s worst though. She’s comparing the absurdity of the solution.

No, right-wingers draw terrible, terrible analogies as or more frequently. The reason people don’t take feminists seriously is sexism.

Can you lead me through the logic of why that’s fucked up? I’m interested in the argument, it’s not immediately apparent to me. Can you tell me why the treatment of animals in factory farming is more excusable than human slavery, beyond simply stating “because they’re human?”

Not much difference to the deer...

The point is that sometimes what a society finds acceptable at one time may later be looked back upon as barbaric. We’ve seen this happen time and time again.

What is fucked up about this analogy? I am genuinely interested in understanding your position.

Oh man, the comments are going to be terrible on this.

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