Radically Vegan

Radical Feminist Vegan. Here to explore the parallels between women's rights and animal rights.

[Radically Vegan @RadicallyVegan]

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[Maureen @MaureenWRC]

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[Animal Justice @AnimalJustice]

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[Prof. Gary Francione @garylfrancione]

The "humane treatment" of animals is a fantasy intended to make us feel better about using and killing animals. Animals are chattel property. It costs money to protect their interests. That is why the standard of animal welfare has always been, and will always be, low.

[Prof. Gary Francione @garylfrancione]

On Veganism, "Soyboys" and GenderCrit Thinking
As a vegan for 40+ years, I can't help but notice the rather pointed hostility a number of GCs have toward #vegans. Apparently, #veganism is seen as synonym for "woke." This is no different from making the (factually inaccurate) claim that Hitler was a vegetarian/vegan so not consuming or using nonhuman animals is synonymous with Nazism. IOW, it’s an incredibly dumb claim whoever makes it.
I am vegan for the same reason that I reject gender ideology: imposing suffering and death on animals, particularly for reasons of palate pleasure or fashion, and the misogyny of attempting to eliminate women as a sex and appropriate their spaces, activities, encouraging children to believe they were “born in the wrong bodies” etc. all involve unjustifiable violence. I have been at this for a long time and I have yet to hear a single sound argument that justifies our exploitation of sentient nonhumans. The standard arguments—that it is “natural,” “traditional,” etc.—are just versions of the arguments that have been used to justify sexism, homophobia, etc.
I don’t know why anyone else is GC, but, to the extent that they, too, object to violence, they might want to think about why they draw their lines the way they do. I have long given up on the idea that the ability to have moral clarity about one issue (gender ideology) leads anywhere else. But I remain hopeful.
Finally, I note that some GCs use the alt-right term "soyboy" to characterize vegans, particularly if they are TRAs who claim to be vegan. The reference is intended to denigrate "effeminate liberal" men. Men who eat soy supposedly have lower testosterone levels because they consume phytoestrogens in soy. So they are not as "manly" as men who chow down on their rare steaks, etc. I would have thought that no GC who was at all thoughtful would buy into such stereotypes but some do. It is particularly odd in that the TRA behavior to which GCs object is about as stereotypically male as it can be.

[Vilner @VilnerShai]

People never take misogyny as seriously as nationalism, racism, homophobia and even fucking transphobia. But misogyny is the main form of oppression that has existed the longest in every corner of the world and affects half of the population.

[Ross Tucker @Scienceofsport]

The IOC asked for solutions. Here is a paper with a brief description of ours. But it starts by recognizing the purpose of women's sport, and then that it needs protected boundaries that exclude male advantage. Screening then achieves fairness & safety: https://t.co/9y9iytfYWD

[Radically Vegan @RadicallyVegan]

@MrsCroaky @gmiller I agree with this reasoning, but I'd pick a later cutoff point, perhaps the point at which at least 50% of fetuses survive, which I think is around 25 weeks.

[Prof. Gary Francione @garylfrancione]

I am sincerely bewildered by those who think that the solution to the problem of gender ideology is to support rightwing opponents of gender ideology such as Donald Trump or Matt Walsh. They are hostile to women's rights as a general matter.

[Vegan FTA @teamveganfta]

Animal eaters are not animal lovers. Period.

[Vegan FTA @teamveganfta]

Human milk is for human babies, Cow milk is for cows' babies. It’s that simple.

[Vegan FTA @teamveganfta]

"As long as there are slaughterhouses there will be battlefields." - Leo Tolstoy

[Avalanche Forever @citchmook]

PWHL fans are upset because Britta Curl doesn't support biological men competing in women's sport, this shouldn't be a controversial stance but here we are.

A woman is being vilified for standing up against obvious absurdity that negatively affects her and every woman on earth.

[Prof. Gary Francione @garylfrancione]

The abolitionist approach sees veganism as the application of the principle of abolition to the life of the individual. It is our personal expression that we embrace the moral personhood of all sentient beings and we reject the status of nonhumans as chattel property. Veganism is an essential part of our commitment to nonviolence.

It is no more “absolutist” or “fanatical” to be a consistent vegan as it is to be consistent in one’s rejection of rape or pedophilia. Indeed, to characterize consistent veganism as “absolutist” is itself speciesist precisely because we would not so characterize our complete rejection of fundamental forms of human exploitation: https://t.co/zgE0tu0NRo

[Radically Vegan @RadicallyVegan]

@oregonwoman https://t.co/ca3N77RClw

[Radically Vegan @RadicallyVegan]

@sec1968 @LaughlinSXM Every single game is available to watch on the PWHL YouTube channel!

[la scapigliata @lascapigliata8]

A really big issue we have is with ambitious people who have no formal knowledge or expertise in specific topics (medicine, safeguarding, teaching, education, psychology etc) billing themselves as experts. This has become more of an issue since we have internet and search engines. People think that research equals knowledge in and of itself, but it doesn’t. Researching things on, say, google, simply gives you information, and information is not knowledge. Knowledge comes from putting information in context in a systematic way, then seeing it and applying it in practice, and this takes time and a lot of formal instruction.

Information on its own, without actual knowledge, can be useless at best and dangerous at worst, because people might think they understand something just because they read about it, and then become antagonistic or perhaps believe they know better than actual experts. This is known as Dunning Kruger effect.

Dabbling has become common everywhere. Everyone is taking shortcuts, including students, pundits, journalists, special committees, members of the public and even professionals when they stray into areas in which they aren’t qualified. They can repeat something they read, and even sound like they know what they are talking about, but their ability to apply what they learned in new situations is missing.

I’ve seen some very simple medical things completely misconstrued in a way that no doctor could ever misconstrue, because they can immediately recall a hundred different ways in which that would not make sense, be wrong or not apply. I see professionals from other disciplines tearing their hair out every day, because arrogant google researchers are opposing basic tenets of their professions, and promulgating false information, mindlessly. As we have seen from chat AIs, algorithms can’t discern between truth and fiction, high and low quality information, and all one charlatan needs is a platform and a lot of gullible people amplifying their opinions, and these come to dominate and replace actual science and evidence.

Amateur dabbling has taken over the public discourse, with internet at everyone’s fingertips, and while it might be an addictive power-trip to impersonate an expert (har har look how smart I am all it took me is an hour/day/week of researching it and I know better than all these experts who messed up!) the ethics to understand why doing so is harmful are nowehere to be seen.

[Sara @SaraCivian]

The PWHL isn't perfect, and it's important we don't put the league on a pedestal immune to criticism. It's also important we don't forget the pioneers who kept professional women's hockey afloat for years. But two months in, owners, players, reporters, and legends of the women's game past and present share a sense of optimism about the future that has never felt so collective or real.

The PWHL feels different because it is. New for @EPRinkside: https://t.co/8jMOMk6dQL

[PWHL @thepwhlofficial]

World. Record. Broken.

📰 https://t.co/j3uTTIY8Yp

[PWHL @thepwhlofficial]

Thank YOU, PWHL family, for making this game the most attended game in women's hockey history. 💜