Blog #178: Feminist-Vegetarian Theory

I started a new book. I'm thirty pages in. My mind has been blown a hundred times already.

The book I've started reading is "The Sexual Politics of Meat; A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory" by Carol J. Adams, which was published back in 1990! (That's eight years older than I, just for reference.)

Sometimes I get so caught up in things that I forget women have been fighting the good fight for so long (and also I just feel like the fight should be over by now, so I'm like... seriously? Feminism wasn't even a new thing back in 1990? We've been going at it for this long and things are still like this?? *screams internally and also externally*).

Anyway, if I had no idea when it was published, I would have picked up this book and thought it was some new-wave 2019 awesomeness. It's not. It's some "vintage," intersectional, 90s grunge-in-the-best-way awesomeness. I love it!!

Also, I've cut my meat intake drastically over the past year, and I kind of unintentionally came to a point where recently I just don't eat meat (I call myself a lazy vegetarian because sometimes I still have it, but usually about once a week at most). This book is just fueling this desire even more, and giving me a cool talking point/conversation starter for when people ask me why I don't eat meat. See below.

"Oh me? Yeah I don't eat meat because it's just another way to defy the 'authority' of the patriarchy and dismantle it brick by brick. Also it drastically reduces my carbon footprint. And I also am eating much healthier and feeling much better because of it. But mostly f*ck the patriarchy."

This is the bookmark I use and isn't it just so fitting?