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INSPIRATIONS
A human being is a part of the whole, called by us "Universe," a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. The striving to free oneself from this delusion is the one issue of true religion. Not to nourish it but to try to overcome it is the way to reach the attainable measure of peace of mind.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955) Mathematical Circles
"...compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.-"
Albert Schweitzer (German medical Missionary, Theologian, Musician and Philosopher. 1952 Nobel Peace Prize, 1875-1965)
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Love
alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill
them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in
themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing
until it embraces the totality of men and the earth."
~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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"LOVE AND DO WHAT YOU WILL" St. Augustine
Peaceable Kingdom, Patti Smith
https://youtu.be/KiAKcGPzJU4
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Dass Guided Imagery
ALL GUIDED IMAGERY
ETHICS GOALS
[2A2] The second goal of the required leadership/ethics flag courses -- learn to make real-life ethical choices -- is closely related to the core purpose of the University of Texas, to transform lives for the benefit of society. It is also one of the basic education requirements of U.T.: “have experience in thinking about moral and ethical problems.”
our primary approach is the oldest: ethics guided by lovingkindness; more specifically, by three nonbinary emotions: biophilia, inner peace, joie de vivre
[2A2f] To practice replacing fear and greed with love, compassion, tolerance, and the sympathetic imagination.
OTHER GOALS
[3C1] To unify the self: our goal is to maximize our potential by cultivating both sides of our brains, developing all our multiple intelligences.
LOOKING AHEAD:
2-27 P1 critiques due
if posted by 2-28 -10; if posted by 3-1 -15; if posted by 3-2 -20; if posted by 3-3 -25 if posted by 3-4 -30; if not posted by 3-5 -100
YOUR COLLEAGUES ARE RELYING ON YOU: DON'T LET THEM DOWN.
2-28 EARTHLINGS 1 BLOG DUE
3-2 EARTHLINGS 2 BLOG DUE
(YOU MUST DO AT LEAST ONE OF THESE BLOGS OR -10)
3-2 Sadism and Dominion EXTRA POINTS FOR WEARING TEXAS FLAG OR EQUIVALENT
3-7Carnism ;
3-9 P1B DUE REINDEER'S BIRTHDAY (2-22) BOBCAT's birthday (3/5) TIGER's birthday 3/13 JAGUAR'S BIRTHDAY
Documentaries Mask and Peaceable Kingdom and blog opportunities for more points
3-9 P1B DUE LATE PENALTIES -10 PER CLASS DAY
[1] Create a new folder on your desktop and name it with your animal name.
[2] Put a word.doc version of your original P1a, the one you uploaded to the Canvas blog site, titled "P1a," into the folder.
[3] Make a single Word document of all the critiques your colleages made of your P1a on the Canvas blog site, titled "Critiques," and categorized according to the name of each reviewer.
[4] Make a word.doc titled "Revisions," of the penultimate draft of your project showing all the changes you made in response to all the critiques. You can use different fonts, color, underlining, bold, italics, to reveal what responses were made to what reviewer. Put a code at the top of the first page showing which kind of highlighting represents which reviewer. Put this "Revisions.doc" into the folder.
[5] Finally, put a word.doc titled "Final draft" into the folder. This "final draft," must be double-spaced, with a title, page numbers, and footnotes at the bottom of the pages, using the University of Chicago footnote method assigned in our anthology (no bibliography). This final draft must meet all the requirements for images and citations and the last page shoujld provide word counts, both with and without quotations.
[6] Prepare an email to bump@utexas.edu and choose the folder as an attachment to the email. Send the email to me before class on the due date.
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LOOKING AHEAD further:
3-21 Carnism and Sustainability 3-23, 3-28, 3-30 Carroll, Alice books 4-4 P2a due 4-6 Racism Alice Walker 4-11, 4-13, 4-18 Fowler, Beside Ourselves 4-20 Research Universities and Animals Carroll, Adams 4-25 Boulle, Kafka 4-27 Paradise Regained Isaiah, Virgil 5-2 Paradise Regained Hicks, Davis 5-4 P2b due
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2-28
Toxic aggression and animals
Best and Worst
https://youtu.be/hc45-ptHMxo
The Mask project
Peaceable Kingdom + Mask preview + Gender + biblical sacrifice of animals
1258- 1294 Gender
1295-1298 Toxic Masculinity
1299-1341 Luke, Brutal: Manhood and the Exploitation of Animals,
1342-1351 The Sexual Politics of Meat
1352-1358 "Sexist Words, Speciesist Roots"
REVIEW EARTHLINGS:
AN ANGRY WORKER SHOUTS: "Go mother fucker! Don't fuckin' stop. Let's go, let's go!!! Come on, bitch!" AND HE BEATS A ROW OF [FEMLW] PIGS UNABLE TO MOVE…….A PIG IS CLUBBED IN THE HEAD WITH A WRENCH. THE WORKER EXCLAIMS: "Ohhh, motherfucker, die!" WE SEE ANOTHER [FEMALE] PIG WHO HAS FALLEN AND CAN'T GET UP; HER LEG WEDGED BETWEEN THE BARS OF A CAGE. A WORKER BEATS HER IN AN EFFORT TO BRING THE PIG TO ITS FEET. THE PIG CANNOT MOVE AND SCREAMS!
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WE SEE TRAINING FOOTAGE INSIDE A BARN. A HANDLER BEATS AN ELEPHANT MERCILESSLY, ALL THE WHILE EXCLAIMING: …
Hurt him. Don't touch him! Make him scream! If you're scared to hurt him, don't come in this room. When I say rip his fuckin' ---you know how I am about touchin' him, right? So if I say rip his head off … rip his fuckin' foot off, what does that mean? Because it's very important to do it, right? When he starts squirming too fuckin' much –both fuckin' hands – BOOM! Right under that chin! Sit … and he better back up.Then when he fucks around too much, don't grab that leg … you fuckin' sink that hook and give everything you've got … and when it's in there go, ee-eeee-ee!!! And he's gonna start screaming. When you hear that screaming, then you know you've got their attention a little fuckin' bit! Right here in the barn. Can't do it on the road.
She's gonna fuckin' do what I want. BECKY THE ELEPHANT BEGINS SCREAMING. HANDLER You motherfucker. Get your motherfuckin' ---get up here! Motherfucker! Come here, Becky. Move up, Becky. Move up, Becky.
Alright, tubs. Tubs! Hey, get loony. Hey, Becky. Go on, move up. Hey, I'm alive. I'm not a dead man. Move up. Come in line. Come in line, Becky. Motherfucker! Move, motherfucker!
BECKY BEGINS SCREAMING AGAIN AS THE HANDLER BEATS HER.
HANDLER Yeah, come in line. Come here, Tommy. Why do they have to go through that because you motherfuckers don't want to listen?
THE ANKUS IS USED TO GRAB THE ELEPHANT BY THE ELBOW. IT HISSES AND SQUEELS!
HANDLER Back up. You got a pussy-ass fuckin' attitude, it's just the way they die.
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Phrases that normalize sexual violence? ("motherfucker" of course adds incest to the mix) Internet search:
be boys, phrases like fuck you/go fuck yourself, and the use - SOC - 413
https://www.coursehero.com › St. Bonaventure › SOC › SOC 413Oct 30, 2014 - Language like fuck you and suck my dick is rape-permitting and normalizes sexual violence. (McKelle) In our culture being fucked sas the ...(HED) P.E. LYRICS - Stepping Stone - AZLyrics www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/hedpe/steppingstone.htmlLyrics to "Stepping Stone" song by (HED) P.E.: No I don't wanna talk kiss marry or date you (Nope) I just want to tie you up and fucking rape you!...KORN LYRICS - Chaos Lives In Everything - AZLyricswww.azlyrics.com/lyrics/korn/chaoslivesineverything.html Lyrics to "Chaos Lives In Everything" song by KORN: Coming onto you The hell you got me ... That fucked up part of you ... Gonna rape you, fuck you bitch, frownMANTAK - MANTAKHZ GONNA RAPE YOU!! LYRICSwww.songlyrics.com › Artists - M › Mantak Lyrics › Diabolical Psycholust Album Lyrics. Rape you fuck you Kill you slash you shred yougonna take you gonna break you gonna rape you, fuck you bitch ...www.lyricistquotes.com/.../gonna-take-you-gonna-break-you-gonna-rape-you-fuck-y...
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GENDER AND ANIMAL CRUELTY
FOX: "Given the obviously gender-differentiated nature of both animal exploitation and animal liberation, it is remarkable that activists do not generally proceed as if gender were an important factor in the struggle." (Gender and the Exploitation of Animals p. 1306)… am now surprised that gender isn't brought up so much when it comes to animal cruelty and liberation considering most of the animal violence perpetuators are men whereas the voices against it are almost always women. I feel like men would feel unmanly if they joined an activist group, as if they'd be considered less of a male. The violence against animals gives males the feeling of leadership and authority over a being. In this generation we should be more adamant on attracting men to the activist groups.
"None of us chooses the meanings that constitute the texts of meat, we adhere to them...Recognizing the texts of meat is the first step in identifying the sexual politics of meat." (The Sexual Politics of Meat p. 1343)
OWL
"Resultingly, earnest vegetarians become trapped by this worldview, and while they think that all that is necessary to make converts to vegetarianism is to point out the numerous problems meat eating causes – ill health, death of animals, ecological spoilage – they do not perceive that in a meat-eating culture none of this really matters." (1343)
RT HAWK
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RTHawk "We think of emotion and desire as natural, but in fact both are highly structured and learned." (1274)…. Emotions are multifaceted and have a wealth of conscious and subconscious causes…….Emotions shaped by one's culture and via socialization, which are integral aspects of how one learns to express himself….Feeling empathy is forged, developed and reinforced in childhood "Ignoring the multiplicity of masculinities and femininities leads to the erasure of experience for many people." (1289)
The stereotypes and expectations within the binary model of gender often conveniently neglect the variation among those in each category.
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"Ignoring the multiplicity of masculinities and femininities leads to the erasure of experience for many people." (1289)
The stereotypes and expectations within the binary model of gender often conveniently neglect the variation among those in each category.
TOXIC MASCULINITY AND MEAT
Blogs
OTTER: One was the stock photos of women eating salad happily, and the other was of the weird Hillshire Farms commercial with the slogan "GO MEAT!" Even the ways that we socialize ourselves in terms of food seems to be gendered. Like in the commercial, for example, the people grilling the food are all men and their chant is reminiscent of a military marching chant. We are taught that meat is a very manly food, while salads, on the other hand, are for women when they are trying to be polite in the face of a man. The way that we are socialized is almost purposeful because it is a way to continue to have a cycle of men to impose cruelty on animals for our consumption, all in the name of fulfilling his duty as a man and successfully performing masculinity.
PANDA: "Meat's recognizable message includes association with the male role... the coherence it achieves as a meaningful item of food arises from patriarchal attitudes including the idea that the end justifies the means, that the objectification of other beings is a necessary part of life..." (The Sexual Politics of Meat, 1343)
This was a very interesting point that this article made. I had never thought of it before, but meat is inextricably bound to the male sex. I can see this connection being made in many aspects of my life. When cooking, it is always my dad or my boyfriend who grills the meat while my mom or I are preparing the salad or pouring the drinks. Tailgates are correlated with barbecue in my mind, which is always prepared and served by fraternities or male spirit groups. Another assertion this quote makes pertains to objectification. Immediately my mind went to this commercial:
HORSE: "Throughout the twentieth century well over 90 percent of North American hunters have been male. 'Man the Hunter' is a longstanding and highly entrenched image, and this affects our perception of other institutions of animal exploitation, such as meat production," (Luke, Brutal: Manhood and the Exploitation of Animals, 1306)
Meat is a symbol for what is not seen but is always there – patriarchal control of animals," (The Sexual Politics of Meat, 1344).
As we saw in Earthlings, man has no challenge hurting and assaulting an animal. We saw the scene with the elephant trainer in which the man tells his trainee not to touch the elephant, but to hurt it. We saw that with the men who beat the pigs, the men who threw the chickens into the walls, and the men who murdered dogs with cyanide and threw an injured dog into a trash compactor. There is a patriarchal control of animals.
BOBCAT 2. "Just as the choice of whether to join the animal rights movement can be influenced by how participation enhances or undermines our gender identities, so also our purchasing decisions are affected by their associations. While it is feminine to buy only "cruelty-free" cosmetics, in that such decision exemplifies a woman's caring responsiveness to the suffering of others, it is masculine to continue buying and consuming animal products even after being informed of how the animals are harmed because this demonstrates a man's ability to override his sympathetic hesitations." (Brutal pg. 1308) [CF. TURTLE ABOVE]
HUSKY: "By reserving animal for other animals, humans deny their kinship with nonhuman animals . . ." (1356)
Since humans refer to themselves as "humans" or "man" or "mankind", they reject the word "animal"--even though that is what we are. Using the word "animal" only in regards to furry, four-legged, or flying, or swimming, those without a voice, as "animals" makes it seem like we are so different when we really are not. Like the quote says, by doing this humans are "denying their kinship with nonhuman animals". This ties back to what I was saying about human superiority; humans think they're above nonhuman animals and, therefore, do not refer to themselves as one. This fact is quite disappointing because people seem to be out of touch with who and what they really are because they are blinded by the idea of human superiority.
FALCON:
"To him, and for many others, cereals and fruits were lower than meat on the scale of evolution, and thus appropriate foods for the other races and white women, who appeared to be lower on the scale of evolution as well" (1346).
"boys are not only told they should suppress their emotions, but that their manliness essentially depends on them doing so" (1297).
One of the ways in which humans were able to acclimatize quickly to bringing harm to other humans was to ignore the emotions they felt. Eventually, after repetition, this suppression would become unconscious and allow some sort of "emotional numbing," a technique that was common during the training of soldiers in WWII. It is not hard to see the parallels that allow men who have been told constantly throughout life to numb or suppress their emotions by a toxic masculinity. Perhaps this is the underlying foundation for how humans and especially men are able to ignore the consequences inherent to animal farming and even animal cruelty; emotional numbing has made it hard to face the spiritual and moral implications of killing animals needlessly.
RACCOON
"If a diet of beans and grains has been the basis for sustenance for the majority of the world until recently then meat is not essential." (1344)
"...I am dismayed by the failure of feminists to recognize the gender issues embedded in the eating of animals." (1344)
FEMALES ASSOCIATED WITH ANIMALS
CHEETAH: Animals are not considered as humans and women are connected to having feelings for animals and non-living things. "A stereotypical picture of femininity includes the expectation that a woman will tend to notice and respond to the needs of others, including animals", showing signs of weakness is linked to women when they show emotions toward animals and objects (1339).
One way people unknowingly link women to animals is by referring certain habitats to showing signs of weakness and inferiority. One example is by eating habits. Women are supposed to be the vegetarians only eating salads and pasta; saving the meat eating trait for men. "This explanation - which divided the world into intellectually superior meat eaters and inferior plant eaters- accounted for the conquering of other cultures by the English", linking women once again to being inferior to men (1346).
HIPPO: 1) "A survey taken at the 1990 March on Washington for the Animals found females comprising 80% of the activists." (1305)
