"usual suspect" > wrote in message
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> Scented Nectar wrote:
> > "usual suspect" > wrote in message
> > ...
> >
> >>Skanky whined:
> >>
> >>>>For benefit of those who missed this show (or who turned it off early
> >>>>because she felt picked on again), here's a brief summary. This show
> >>>>would benefit anyone who's never had the misfortune of encountering a
> >>>>vegan. It showed what vegans are like, what they think and believe,
and
> >>>>how they interact with normal people.
> >>>>
> >>>>The vegan wife, Jackie, forces her entire household (including the
cat)
> >>>>to consume a raw vegan diet. Her actions extend beyond herself and her
> >>>>household: she protests meat and hands out leaflets to strangers on
the
> >>>>street in an attempt to get them to live according to her peculiar
> >>>>"principles." Part of those principles at home included getting rid of
> >>>>their stove and many of their possessions; her home became
increasingly
> >>>>spartan as she sank deeper into her kooky vegan abyss.
> >>>>
> >>>>The best way to explain her average day is that she focuses on the
> >>>>things most out of her control and avoids dealing with the things most
> >>>>within her control. Her husband Harold WANTS to eat meat but fears
doing
> >>>>so for the consequences he'd face from Jackie (note: he expressed no
> >>>>fear of consequences to his health from it). Harold also overworks to
> >>>>avoid coming home because Jackie is too busy navel-gazing, sun-gazing,
> >>>>bitching, domineering, and protesting to clean house or do other
mundane
> >>>>things; he's adopted the role of housemaid by default. The whole
family
> >>>>were kind of drifting apart and becoming more dysfunctional, with
Harold
> >>>>and the daughter afraid to speak up about any of the changes (dietary,
> >>>>anti-"decorating," etc.).
> >>>>
> >>>>Jackie ends up trading places with a wife from a family who hunt out
of
> >>>>necessity. With her vegan psyche already very weak and fragile, Jackie
> >>>>assesses her new situation by going through the fridge (filled with
> >>>>meat) and the home (filled with taxidermy). As most vegans are, she's
> >>>>condescending in sizing up her new family. To her credit, though, I
> >>>>didn't think she was nearly as condescending as the vegan witch
Barbara
> >>>
> >>>>from Fox's _Trading Spouses_ last year.
> >>>
> >>>>During one memorable segment, Jackie became emotional -- nearly
> >>>>hysterical -- trying to explain how difficult it was for her to go to
an
> >>>>all raw diet. She offered some psychobabble comparing the whole
> >>>>experience to alcoholism. To that bizarre melodrama, the other husband
> >>>>(Ricky) apologized and said he didn't realize it would be so traumatic
> >>>>for her.
> >>>>
> >>>>As in the _Trading Spouses_ episodes on Fox in this vein last year,
the
> >>>>vegan wife felt compelled to show her new family some videos from
animal
> >>>>rights groups even after preaching to them about veganism for an
entire
> >>>>week. Jackie became an emotional wreck while watching them, even
though
> >>>>she said she's seen them many times before. Though the kids were
briefly
> >>>>stunned by such portrayals of farming (which are atypical), they
didn't
> >>>>exactly embrace the idea of eating nuts and fruits.
> >>>>
> >>>>Ultimately, her attempts to convert the family in Kentucky failed.
Since
> >>>>the swap, they've added more vegetables to their meals but haven't
given
> >>>>up hunting or eating meat. Meanwhile, Jackie's kept the stove Bobbi
(the
> >>>>normal wife who ended up having to deal with milquetoast Harold) had
> >>>>brought in and has even resumed eating some cooked foods. She admitted
> >>>>maybe she was taking things too far. I'm sure her husband agrees she
> >>>>*had* taken things too far, even if he lacks the courage to tell her
how
> >>>>****ed up he really thinks she is.
> >>>>
> >>>>The moral of the story is that vegans DO take things too far. They try
> >>>>to proselytize others, and they're usually very emotional and
aggressive
> >>>>about it. They think they're doing something virtuous and informative
by
> >>>>telling others not to eat meat, but vegans always end up coming across
> >>>>as emotive, uninformed jackasses.
> >>>>
> >>>>I also think vegans should go on more shows like this. First, it's
very
> >>>>entertaining. Second, it's illuminating for the wider population --
> >>>>especially those in areas without or with very few vegans. Finally,
it's
> >>>>therapeutic in the sense that vegans on these shows seem to benefit
from
> >>>>interacting with *normal* people. For example, Jackie is again eating
> >>>>cooked food. The vegan mother in the Fox show (Barbara) even ate meat
> >>>>with the Cajun family.
> >>>
> >>>You are assuming all vegans are like
> >>>each other.
> >>
> >>They are, generally speaking. Vegans are conformists; they conform to a
> >>doctrinaire, sanctimonious position that they have to save the world. I
> >>should've pointed out above that Jackie's focus on the things most out
> >>of her control and avoids dealing with the things most within her
> >>control is typical of vegans. Vegans tend to be emotionally immature
> >>(e.g., crying through repeated showings of AR videos) and obsess about
> >>things they cannot control; they let the things they CAN control go
> >>downhill -- whether it's a career, family, pet, etc. (And Jackie's case
> >>shows how far and quickly someone can sink into the abyss. Her focus was
> >>on things completely outside her control -- saving the animals. She
> >>didn't work, she didn't tend to her home or family, she didn't tend well
> >>to herself. Sound familiar, carless agoraphobic pothead Skanky?)
> >
> >
> > What the **** are you talking
> > about? My career, family, pets
> > have not gone downhill.
>
> Hard to go further downhill when you've already reached rock-bottom.
In your dreams.
> > I tend to myself well.
>
> Bullshit. You continue to smoke pot despite knowing you're agoraphobic.
> You've also admitted before to having eating disorders -- you suggested
> you were way underweight at one point.
I have never had an eating disorder.
My weight as a kid (when I was eating
meat!) was under the norm. No fears
or illusions of being fat. No eating
disorder. My doctors never felt it was
a problem. I was never sick from it.
I never practiced bulimia or anything
similar. Since I don't smoke pot
before going into crowded areas, it
has nothing to do with agoraphobia.
Pot happens to calm me down and
mellow me out.
> > It's interesting
> > that you want to see all vegetarians
>
> VEGANS. As opposed to vegetarians. Some vegetarians are nutty, too. But
> as a rule, VEGANS are nuts.
Proof please. Now you're saying
that some vegetarians are alright,
only because you are currently
identifying as one. You did so in
a recent post.
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SN
http://www.scentednectar.com/veg/