{"id":457,"date":"2009-07-10T12:28:08","date_gmt":"2009-07-10T20:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/?p=457"},"modified":"2009-07-10T12:28:08","modified_gmt":"2009-07-10T20:28:08","slug":"proof-of-the-sexual-politics-of-meat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/posts\/2009\/proof-of-the-sexual-politics-of-meat\/","title":{"rendered":"Proof of ‘The Sexual Politics Of Meat’"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nLast month’s Details<\/i><\/a> magazine had a an article called “The Greatest Virginity Story Ever Told.”<\/a> The story is about a 21-year-old guy with down syndrome who is a virgin and goes to Las Vegas to get laid.<\/p>\n

What struck me, of course, was this guy’s tendancy to objectfy women by comparing them to food. Some choice quotes:<\/p>\n

\n“I like their boobs,” he continues. “Yeah. Lovely nipples. Perfect breasts. They’re like chicken breasts.”<\/p>\n

“You’ve got a tendency to compare things to food, haven’t you, Otto?” Bill says.<\/p>\n

“Yeah,” Otto says. “Burgers with boobs. Stick in an olive\u2014it’s like a nipple. And they have legs like bacon. And their bottom is like a steak. And they also have eyes like round biscuits. Actually, their whole body’s like a biscuit. I’m hungry for a stripper.”\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I think next to the image to the right, this is the second best piece of proof to support the theory outlined in the book The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory<\/i><\/a> — one of my favorite feminist and veg*n-related books.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last month’s Details magazine had a an article called “The Greatest Virginity Story Ever Told.” The story is about a 21-year-old guy with down syndrome who is a virgin and goes to Las Vegas to get laid. What struck me, of course, was this guy’s tendancy to objectfy women by comparing them to food. Some … Continue reading Proof of ‘The Sexual Politics Of Meat’<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[25,34],"tags":[156,158,159,157],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=457"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":460,"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457\/revisions\/460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}