It is an artificial politics though. As in we don’t naturally have this association with masculinity, it’s propagandized by the industry. If we somehow got to the point of society actually divesting from animal farming, I think we’d already have started tackling the masculinity propaganda to some degree. It’ll be a long hard fight though.
100% it is artificial and socially constructed. I don’t think Adam’s Sexual Politics of Meat has it all right but it has some interesting ideas about cultural messages about meat and masculinity and got me started thinking about it. (It was written for a Daly class, and Daly is the reason there’s a strain of radical feminism that things womyn are magical spirit beings that are tainted by being in any form of contact with an XY chromosome. There’s a reason Limbaugh attacked Dworkin and not Daly and Raymond cough)
It is an artificial politics though. As in we don’t naturally have this association with masculinity, it’s propagandized by the industry. If we somehow got to the point of society actually divesting from animal farming, I think we’d already have started tackling the masculinity propaganda to some degree. It’ll be a long hard fight though.
100% it is artificial and socially constructed. I don’t think Adam’s Sexual Politics of Meat has it all right but it has some interesting ideas about cultural messages about meat and masculinity and got me started thinking about it. (It was written for a Daly class, and Daly is the reason there’s a strain of radical feminism that things womyn are magical spirit beings that are tainted by being in any form of contact with an XY chromosome. There’s a reason Limbaugh attacked Dworkin and not Daly and Raymond cough)