textual rape for meat-lovers

Don’t you even try to stop me from ordering what will someday no doubt be declared Book of the Last Several Millennia: Carol J. Adams’ epic The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory. A real page-turner, I’m sure! I’m particularly heartened by the five-star review from one “Gwen”:
“I was so moved by this extraordinary text. Interrogating the assumptions of white male Women beaters/meat eaters, this important work examines how the white dominating and oppressive culture dictates that the eating of meat is ‘good’ and even ‘necessary’, subject Peoples of Color to dietary regimes alien to their own subjectivities. As the writer notes, there is considerable resistance among patriarchal-dominated discourses to vegetarianism. This resistance is a form of textual rape, to be combatted by a ‘taste of their own medicine’: ‘A vegetarian writer may express feelings about textual violation by referring to images of butchered animals and raising the issue of dismemberment.’ A wonderful book, highly recommended.”
Hey, meat lovers! Bet you didn’t know you were a textual rapist!

10 thoughts on “textual rape for meat-lovers”

  1. For the record, the beliefs of Jeremy should not be misconstrued as the beliefs of crabwalk.com or its proprietor.

  2. For the record, the beliefs of Tom should not be misconstrued as the beliefs of crabwalk.com or its proprietor.

  3. I thought I was both a feminist and a vegetarian, but I’d prefer a hot beef injection to a carnal carrotting anyday. Textually speaking, of course.

  4. you know, none of this would ever have happened if josh had just put some ted nugent songs on some of the cdmom’s. kill and grill…

  5. I don’t necessarily agree with Carol J. Adams either, but wow it sure sounds like Jeremy’s been stood up a few times.

  6. “Y’know, you can eat a stick of broccoli and it tastes like a stick of broccoli. But meat tastes like murder and murder tastes pretty fuckin’ good, doesn’t it?!”
    -Denis Leary
    It figures. I’m a white male, which means I’m more or less directly or indirectly for most of the world’s problems, so might as well pile “textual rapist” on the list. The line forms to the left…

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