Male Vegetarian – Veggie without Applause! (get it?)
Vegetarianism is new to me I guess, about 4 months or so now. No way I’d ever go back so I guess timespan is irrelevant. Along my Vegetarian path so far I’ve discovered very few fellow male vegetarians, I found it’s a bit of a shame so decided to post about it.
Bar the often ‘girlfriend conversion’ male vegetarians who are only doing it as they’re nagged into it and stop the second they part ways there doesn’t appear to be all too many. Why is this? Surely male vegetarianism is something to be proud of?
Apparently not, at least not for me – questioned at every turn with stupid questions, “what if you hit a cow in a car, is this natural death and so you’d eat it?” & the classic “do you use coal? that is old animal parts”. This is just a personal thing though, the whole deal with male vegetarianism I feel is something much deeper.
Males are depicted as rough, tough hardy creatures. It’s deemed girly in our society to be caring, compassionate and loving towards fellow man and animals. It’s embedded in us to go out and kill a boar, sling it over our shoulder and throw it on the fire. I agree, it probably is. But the day I see any meat eating male do this deed – i’ll shut my mouth.
Basically, if you hadn’t got the gist yet, it’s that it’s deemd “a bit soft” in the eyes of peers if male vegetarianism is considered. While it’s perfectly alright for women. A stupid thing that was said to be recently was “well women are more caring, it’s just something that’s in them. Us blokes are meant to eat meat” and it triggered me to write this post. This is exactly the kind of thing I’m trying to rebel against.
I’m no pansy because I don’t eat meat, am I? Surely I can rank up my masculinity points by going to the gym and studying Thai boxing (not that masculinity points mean sh*t). Guys, do yourself a favour, search ‘Earthlings’ on Google video, watch it, have a cry and decide what’s more important:
Your tastebuds and your “friends” opinions or the unnecassary death of hundreds of thousands of beings?
Give male vegetarianism a go!
Ever felt pointless?
I hope other people feel this. Some days I just feel so damn pointless, I can’t get on with work, my brain is doing 100mph and I keep thinking about more important things.
Y’know, as you’re sitting there in work some people are being forced into sex, starving to death and worse. I feel so bad and feel helpless about it – like there’s nothing you can do? I could go and volunteer, except it’s about £2000 to PAY to volunteer, then covering bills and rent whilst away. That’s that one out of the window!
I sometimes think that rich people are designed to and destined to have better things, being rich allows you to buy yourself a way to help people – i mean really help, not donate £5 a month or walk dogs on a saturday afternoon – and even buy a way out of this fucking rat race.
I hadn’t intended for this to turn into a rant based on financial gain. In fact, I’m trying to cut down on the rants and just have regular posts – I get far too carried away with myself sometimes.
Basically, what I was wondering is if other people feel this? Luckily due to the materialistic brainwashing of this age I quickly forget about such matters and start counting down the days until the new XBOX 360 game comes out. I hate feeling brainwashed 
Marriage…
I suppose I’m starting to get old now I guess, by old I’m talking in marriage terms ofcourse. I also suppose being with my girlfriend almost three years would make some people believe it’s about time we got married…
May I ask why? I don’t think nearly enough people question this! It’s almost a case of “hey, we’re 26 and we’ve been going out for a few years. We should get married”. Why? Are you Christian, Catholic? I didn’t think so, why should you get married? Do you truely believe that it will benefit you THAT much?
I believe I’m not the only person who thinks that marriage is a waste of time, aside from one point obviously… legal benefits! Having your partner’s belongings left to you and what not. On top of this obviously is the cost, with an average wedding in the UK being about £11,000 it’s a pricey day! For those of you contemplating it without full though we could always consider divorce rates. In 2003 there were 153,490 divorces in the UK. That’s a hell of a lot, I think some people are making a lot of money out of us east going marriage types.
Personally, I don’t want to get married. Neither does my partner Eleanor! I guess we’re stuffed as far as rights are concerned. What about if we want children? What is the situation as far as a breakup there? Maybe I should just get married for ease!
If you don’t want to get married and have your partner give up their name, if you don’t want to give up YOUR surname, if you don’t want to waste money on a pointless label – what other choice is there?
NOTHING, I wish there was but there isn’t. Apparently laws are in process to give unmarried couples more ‘couple’ rights but I guess one just has to wait and see how effective these rights will be. Will we be able to to inherit our partner’s house if they pass away? Well, I doubt it – but again, time will tell.
I would really like to hear from people who are in the same situation as this. In a relationship without wanting to marry but worrying about what the future holds.
Anybody that has any feelings on this - please get involved and leave a comment.
Matt
Revolution anyone?
Having been a free thinker stuck in this society and watching it go downhill I’m starting to feel a little less alone. I know this seems like crazy talk but after seeing a few films hitting the mainstream like “America: Freedom To Fascism” and the more commercial and fantasised “V for Vendetta” it seems that more and more people are having their blinkers removed – therefore opening their eyes and seeing the shit bag world that lies before them.
ID microchips to be placed in us? Religion based control systems? No thanks, not for me they’re saying!
I’m sure most people soak these things up as pure fantasy or think about it for a few minutes afterwards and then forget about it. But I’m pretty sure people are taking it on board and thinking about their future, if not their future then their children’s.
I’m hoping – emphasis on the hope, that people will switch on more and something will start to happen in this country. House prices can only rise so high, only so many immigrants can come in, only so many hospitals can be closed! Even if it starts with strikes we can do something. If the working class of this country grew some balls and said NO we could bring England to a grinding halt.
Everybody seems to have forgotten their basic human rights and goes along with conformity and comfort. Comfort will end when regimes come into place and we can no longer exercise our basic rights.
With any luck we’ll be nuked by China or N. Korea before the shit really hits the fan. Hu hum.
Matt
Terrorist! Terrorism! Terror!
- Intense, overpowering fear. See Synonyms at fear.
- One that instills intense fear: a rabid dog that became the terror of the neighborhood.
- The ability to instill intense fear: the terror of jackboots pounding down the street.
- Violence committed or threatened by a group to intimidate or coerce a population, as for military or political purposes.
- Informal. An annoying or intolerable pest: that little terror of a child.
I thought it interesting to look up the Dictionary’s definition of ‘terror’ before I post, if I’m to be honest though I hadn’t expected number 4 – one can but wonder when this was placed here! Up until these scare tactics were imposed by the government I hadn’t heard of “Terror!” being used in such ways. Surely ”Terror” springs to mind as “Tim is a little Terror” and “That film was full of terror”.
This broad meaning of it is REALLY starting to aggravate me. What is an actual act of terrorism anyway? It seems only something that involves a “brown man” and a bomb! We all better watch out, with the news blaring these images at us if we convert to Muslim we’ll be suspects under surveillance. Hey, soon we’ll be coining the phrase “Anti-English” and be a real little America like we’re aiming for, then when revolutionary action starts to take place we can lock them up like the “Terrorists” they are.
Matt
Venus ‘Goddess’ Shavers
This advert has been riling me up for a while now! Notice the beautiful, tanned, smooth skin. The stunning good looks. The sheer perfection of these women. They’re goddesses, apparently.
Here I was under the impression that Saraswati and Viishna were goddesses – foolish me. It’s if you shave your legs that you become a goddess! You can achieve the perfection that these women do.
I mean, come on. Do people take this toff seriously? It’s even called ‘Venus’! Let’s all play on the sacred worship of the goddess and yet again turn women into self concious wrecks.
I’ve seen hairy legs on a woman, I didn’t keel over and die. Surely this sort of advertising shouldn’t be allowed!
Matt – signing off!
Lines on men’s faces…
Alright, correct me if I’m wrong here…
Hasn’t every man ever deemed attractive or as a sex symbol had lines on their face and around their eyes? I mean, wasn’t Sean Connery voted as a sex symbol a few years ago! George Clooney has lines, every “attractive” man seems to have face lines.
But not anymore! A certain product (can’t remember name right now) has an ad with a man going up an escalator and a woman going down. She checks him out – after all, he is a hot guy. He checks her out and then we see she looks disgusted! Cue the voiceover “Guys, you think those a good eye lines, she thinks you look haggered”.
*gasp*
Hold the phone here missy. Are we just taking a a dig at attractive lines? It appears so – I figured ‘hey, maybe I’m wrong’ so I asked my girlfriend and a few other women. The result all being that lines are attractive, so where the hell did this myth come from?
No, wait – I’ve got it. It’s a stab at making men feel as insecure as women so they can start making as much money off us. If we were as unhappy as women with our appearence then there would be double the money to be made.
This world makes me sick.
“It’s just human nature”
Well, I’ve been in discussion most of the morning amongst my workload with a colleague – it’s had it’s high points and low points but seems to turn into banging my head against a brick wall very easily. I’m sure you’re all familiar with the responses which cause such aggravation…
“It’s just human nature” and “Ignorance is the best policy”
Now, this discussion has ranged from religion to vegan-ism. It started off on the wrong foot by me foolishly mentioning “I’m thinking about going Vegan” (I’m currently Vegetarian anyway). This quickly deteriorated in to a slag match until I would drop facts into conversation, and in each of those instances I was met by one of the above stock answers.
I’m not going in to the ins and outs of this particular conversation, I’m purely voicing my annoyance of the general public’s use of stock phrases. I wouldn’t mind being advised otherwise with evidence, but when one has specifically researched a field in which they’re debating – surely the opposition hasn’t a leg to stand on?
It’s almost as bad as “God works in mysterious ways” when you back a Christian into a corner!
Anybody else have these life traumas?
