I don’t get it. Apparently the term vegan itself is an insult. Why is vegan a bad word? It is a word of empowerment and compassion for other beings. People are crazy.

Welcome to the other side of double standards, hopefully once this wall is beat down you’ll remember what it was like.
At least this isn’t going to get in the way of your life, I empathize for you but being a 17 year old US girl who could have had a mechanics license by now if my dad hadn’t reentered my life, declared it to manly for a “pretty” female, and banned me from taking advantage of the free college class program I feel no pity for you.
Good luck, and get over it.
Sexism sucks!

Only the most ignorant of the ignorant regard vegetarians as unmanly or too sensitive (or as they like to put it: pussies & faggots)

There’s little-to-no biology involved; it’s almost entirely cultural.
You can raise a female to be a heartless animal murderer (“hunter”) just as you can raise a male to be one.
You’re seeing more male animal murderers than female animal murderers because our current screwed up culture has a gender divide.
We are taught that there are certain things that are ‘manly’ and certain things that are ‘womanly’ and murdering animals is one of the ‘manly’ things.
Don’t worry though, that gender divide is nothing like it used to be. It becomes more faint every year and, every year, adults become more likely to question their upbringing and discard teachings that support unnecessary pain, suffering and death.

@keepTHEfaith

So glad you enjoyed it!

@LittleLotte

I could imagine so! It’s really sad how gender bias people can be on the whole meat thing. It’s bad enough they don’t consider eating meat bad in the first place!

One of the male veggies I used to know would get teased but he would argue that he was stronger than his omnivore male friends because he had the will power to quit meat!

Wow, interesting article ! Thanks for sharing !

“Off the bat, most people would think of a male vegetarian as unmanly or too sensitive, while others would look up to this and see compassion and a clear conscious. Then again, what’s wrong with being sensitive and actually caring about the life of another being? Does our society think this way because of man’s prehistoric biology of being hunters or is it really our culture’s expectations that are being favored?

And while men have been developed with hunting in their genes, women have been developed with the need to nurture and bear a child. Is this why it seems more women have empathy towards the treatment of animals; the fact that they feel for not only the animal, but the mother’s of these helpless beings? Or, is it that because of a man’s biological need of more calories due to more muscle tone and larger organs that makes him less likely to even consider vegetarianism, even for his health?”

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I hope this interests some!