Animalized Women
I saw a wonderful talk today by Carol J Adams, author of “the Sexual Politics of Meat”, at SUNY Fredonia in the US. During this talk, she discussed how to dehumanize certain people, they were often compared to animals. “The black beast”, “the ravenous black women”, people are compared to animals to justify the mistreatment of them. Women especially. During the women sufferage movement in the States, it was often quoted that if women got the vote “pigs would be next”.
There is also the “humanized animal”. House pets that are allowed to eat at the table, treated like part of the family. There’s nothing I find wrong with this but how strange is it that there’s a hierarchy between animals and humans? Even more strange is the “feminized animal”! We were shown so many pictures of animals “desiring you to dominate them”. They were sexualized as female objects and pictured as if to ask for your domination. Some things I never noticed but realized how often I see them without paying them any mind. This is just how normalized all these hierarchies really are
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