• endless_nameless@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    It’s fucked up how people here only seem to have an issue with the cow getting artificially inseminated. The bulls can’t consent either. Just like with humans, people either don’t concern themselves with male consent, don’t think sexual abuse of men matters nearly as much as when it happens to women. I don’t really have an opinion on artificial insemination, I just found it fucked that this misandrist double standard is so strong it even extends to animals.

    • TranscendentalEmpire@lemmy.today
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      12 hours ago

      Lol, there are several comments on this post specifically talking about castration. Simply highlighting one aspect of the paradigm does not mean you condone the other, nor does it mean people are ignoring it.

      Sexual violence against women is spoken more about because it is much more common than with men. One out of five women are victims or rape or rape attempts, comparatively only one out of thirty-one men have experienced the same. The same goes for cattle, as the vast majority of cattle are females.

      Simply stating that fact does not mean people do not care about sexual violence towards men, nor would someone who cares about the suffering of animals condone the morality of the practices in the meat industry when it comes to male cows.

          • Grail@multiverse.soulism.net
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            17 hours ago

            I believe you, and so rather than refuse to hear out their argument (and thus prove them in some way right), I’ve decided to engage with them seriously using leftist analysis. If nothing else, it’s good exercise for My noodle.

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              17 hours ago

              I want gender affirming care for animals. Especially otherkin, who can suffer greatly from species and gender dysphoria. I always appropriately gender My pet shark, who has human-level intelligence and communication skills. I would agree to provide as much gender affirming care as possible to cisspecies cattle if they were capable of requesting it. But they cannot, so the best we can do for them is avoid eating and raping them.

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        17 hours ago

        Fortunately, cattle don’t understand English and thus aren’t harmed by verbal misgendering. The only misgendering they have to worry about are the sexual roles forced on them by farmers. Thus, I propose we abolish cattle farming and project no gender or sexual roles onto cows, allowing us to verbally misgender cows without harming them.

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          8 hours ago

          Broke: Misgendering people :(

          Woke: Avoiding misgendering, even of animals :)

          Bespoke: Engineering ways to misgender as much as possible without causing any harm (??)