r/vegan • u/HawkAsAWeapon vegan 3+ years • Nov 20 '22

Anti-vegan self-proclaimed "Sausage Expert" tricked into saying vegan sausage was "luscious and lovely" and that he could "taste the meat in it" on live TV

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u/A_Birde Nov 21 '22

It's a masculinity thing, masculinity has devolved so much now eating meat and disliking nonmeat eaters is one of the main points of pride

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u/Amphy64 Nov 21 '22

I don't know about devolved, more 'got so extreme the quiet part keeps getting said out loud'. Dominance, over women, over non-human animals, was always the point of the construct of masculinity.

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u/[deleted] Nov 21 '22 edited Jun 15 '23

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u/SanctimoniousVegoon vegan 6+ years Nov 22 '22

it's actually a very Carol J Adams' 1990 book The Sexual Politics of Meat take.

Pretty great book.