actually, I think you're perfectly entitled to not want to wear fur or leather, however, the offense I took was over your opinion that those who do are somehow worthy of you assessing them as 'insecure and stupid' and your assessment of it being 'fuckin disgusting', and, by a logical extension, the people that wear these items winding up in the same category. as I'm a human with my own integral fur coat, I get the best of both worlds. The part that gasses me is that it's PC to be up in someone's face about how horrible whatever they're doing is, but not to be able to take it when it's returned. I wrote the post, as I did, specifically to be the kind of post that makes people (not just you) think about the situation, and what can, cannot, should, and should not be done about it. It's well and good to proclaim anything one wants on ideological grounds, but realistically speaking, brings into play an entirely different set of circumstances and rules. It wasn't that you disagreed with the wearing of fur, it's that you chose to be so utterly rude and disparaging in your comments that I was responding to. I have the right to think what I want (just as you do). For example, I happen to think tofu is pretty vile. I could easily say that it is the worst thing to be called 'food', and is in my opinion, farther down the scale than spray cheese in a can or edible underwear. I can even say 'I dislike tofu' but that doesn't give me the right to walk into a vegan restaurant and say 'you people are sick! tofu's disgusting' and expect people to not be offended. It doesn't even give me the right to look at a vegan and make the same kind of rude noises or comments that're often made to a meat eater...things like 'how can you eat that garbage?'. It's one thing to state an opinion, but it's quite another to do so in such a way as to be offensive to the point of bordering on obnoxious. This is a lesson that I think PETA could stand to learn...good message...horrific delivery.
I can completely understand where your comming from and I believe that maybe the way I came about it was wrong as well as my choice of words and to be honest you have to know me to really understand my points of veiws because they do come out better from my mouth then over the computer. But thats beside the point. Yes I do find fur and animal skin disgusting when humans use it. No I dont find those humans to be disgusting just uneducated but I do find it disgusting when living beings are treated with such cruelty. And I do wish that people would understand and even educated themselves about what they choose to wear. Not just for an animal rights point of view but human aswell. I completely agree with you about the Peta thing They do have great information and some good things to say but the way they come across is wrong and people choose not to listen to that.
Thank you. That was a very well thought out posting, and I'm glad that we got the mess straightened out. I apologize if I got out a sledgehammer when a light tap of the finger would do. My friends know me to generally be as subtle as a half brick in a sock.
mmm. the topic of animals all together is a soft and hard one for me. i'm vegetarian, i don't wear fur, nor leather. that is who i am.. i'm happy with it. although, i get many sarcastic questions from people at my high school; 'if you want to be vegetarian, why not be vegan?" "why do you still wear wool?" "maybe plants feel pain too, you know" for over a year i've been answering these questions, only to now realise they are not asking because they are interested in my answer but ask because they want me to look foolish, so they feel they are 'smarter' than me because i'm a 'stupid vegetarian' well yes. i do not support anything that feels it can control what they do with animals. i do not support people who play 'god' and feel they have the right to kill animals for their flesh, skin, fur, skull - whatever. animals are my friends. i don't eat my friends. love you all!
