Comments on: Wednesday Tot-Flipping-The-Bird Blogging

By: Ellasgrannie

Ellasgrannie — Sun, 30 Jul 2006 19:49:20 +0000

What a beautiful child.

By: No Blood for Hubris

No Blood for Hubris — Sun, 30 Jul 2006 02:07:56 +0000

I’m late to the party. Busy pushing the cause of adopting frozen embryos–thank God for all this hot weather, eh?

1. Yes, soy is a phytoestrogen. It can cause problems. Are we arguing over this? Why?

2. The Dalai Lama is not vegetarian. He is also not unaware of all that is involved in producing all the food he consumes — animal and and plant-based. Nor to the best of my knowledge is he ungrateful. Unlike some people I know, and many I don’t.

By: Betsy

Betsy — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 21:42:21 +0000

Don’t worry, justtesting. Those kids may need you at a point down the road.

Like what CafeSiren said.

By: MzNicky

MzNicky — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 21:34:39 +0000

Pony: Hey, we do what we can. Well, some of us do. I don’t swat flies or squish ants. I don’t eat animal flesh. Intent is everything, karma-wise. Which is what I was talking about.

Yeah, that “Hitler was a vegetarian” is always a big laff-getter. By the way, the Dalai Lama is not. Oh, and also by the way, kiss my ass.

By: CafeSiren

CafeSiren — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 21:16:27 +0000

My own niece & nephew (two different parents) appear to be walking gender stereotypes as well. They both live in a different state, so I couldn’t say what parenting had to do with it. I just love the kids, and work on the day when I can be the cool spinster aunt who helps them say “fuck it all. I’m shaving my head and spending a year with the circus before I go to MIT.”

By: justtesting

justtesting — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 20:13:29 +0000

Rotel has got the right attitude, and is well influenced.

I however have so far failed miserably in my own spinster aunt duties, having nieces that are all pink and fluffy - much to the delight of their reactionary parents who believe that the infants themselves chose to be like that, and are proof that gender stereotypes are actually hardwired. Still, there’s chance yet.

By: Pony

Pony — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 17:41:54 +0000

Joke. Joke ladies. True but spoken with levity.

Jezebella, don’t sweat it. I don’t give any quarter and don’t take any. No one gets out of hear alive (or something like that).

If you want to tell me to kiss your ass, be my guest. Just also be prepared to get it back in spades if I think you’ve got it coming.

Yesterday was your freebie. {smiling}

By: Pony

Pony — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 17:34:58 +0000

When you eat soy (and other plants) grown on farms you contribute
to the deaths of millions of mammals in the fields where the crops
are farmed. That doesn’t even begin to include the other animals
which depend on them for food. Bald Eagles, for example.

Since you so honourably don’t want o contribute to the death of s
entient beings, you will want to become a Jain, eat only fruit from trees
in the wild, and sweep your path when you walk so you don’t step
on insects. You’ll also want to get rid of your computer because
the industries which make them are environmental disasters
and cause the death of millions more sentient beings (some of whom
are bipedal).

An interesting book:
Oral Sadism and the Vegetarian Personality.
G. Elengogen

An interesting fact:
Hitler was a vegetarian

{with thanks to S.)

By: MzNicky

MzNicky — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 14:52:34 +0000

Jezebella: When you figure it out, let me know. I can’t find mine either. Maybe it’s a fat Southern vegetarian smoker thing.

And not to set off any more soy controversies, and recognizing the false dichotomy of it all and so forth, but: as you also alluded to, karma-wise, I’d rather take my chances with the eating of the tofu than with the eating of a senselessly-tortured-and-then-brutally-slaughtered-for-my-consumption fellow sentient being. Yeah yeah yeah I KNOW it’s not a question of EITHER tofu OR animal flesh. It’s just that my favorite Pad Thai usually comes offered that way.

By: Jezebella

Jezebella — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 01:21:04 +0000

Pony - my brother had a brain injury 18 years ago, so now - and I say this with all sincerity - your mode of expression makes a lot more sense to me. Will try to take this into consideration and not blow up at you in future, but I can’t make any promises. Your language in this medium registers very high for condescension, which pushes my ‘kiss my ass’ button. And I still haven’t figured out where the safety is on the ‘kiss my ass’ response.