PETA is back to help us use proper words when it comes to those animals that share our lives. You see, the word "pet" is "harmful". "Companion Animal" is OK. It's vague enough not to be considered "Speciesist Language" evidently.
According to a February 5th announcement from PETA, addressing animals as "it" is also harmful. We should use terms such as he, she or "dog guardian". (One would think the word "dog" is specieist but using logic will get us nowhere here.) PETA is concerned that we mustn't get the feeling that an animal is a human owned object.
Wrong PETA. Call me anything, just call me in time for dinner.
What is this obsession with pronouns?
Here's a brain teaser. I'm a biological male with no testicles. What is my pronoun?
I'm a feral cat but I just have to weigh in on this. Wake up, PETA. No animal gives a hoot what you call it.
Dear PETA,
You know how sometimes your dog tilts his head when you talk to him? News flash. He is not trying to ferret out harmful words.
OK PETA, you want to help me out? The next time you run a chicken truck off the road, deliver the birds to me.
PETA, it is you who are an object. A tool. I own you. Me and my bretheren live in your heads. Now, serve up some pate'.
I may look mild mannered, but if PETA came to my house and hassled my people about their vocabulary, I would use my teeth on them. Ya know?
Just tell me, how would my quality of life improve if I became a "dog guardian"?
Read the PETA crap here
By the way, you bossy boots wack jobs, sometimes Lynn calls me a Pomeranian Freak. Is that harmful too? Like xenophobic or something? Hey, PETA! Bite me.
At best, PETA is misguided. At worst, they're extreme.
ReplyDeletePETA is beyond crazy with an ultra batshit crazy bent.
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Many of Peta's ideas seem way off the beam to me.
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