If you go to Thailand you might see opened bottles of Pink Fanta just sitting around. This is an offering to spirits because animal blood is no longer allowed.
@LittleD What's stupid about it? It's common in Asia to use animal products as offerings. As the western progressive beliefs gradually spread to Asia, people care more about animal rights and hygiene, so they ban the traditional practice. It's all very reasonable.
@JustinY
It was a joke. Sarcasm.
I actually don't like the idea of animals being harmed for no reason and I do have issues with a lot of Asian traditions that have driven animals to extinction. But this is a comic strip and I was making a joke. Like Linera commenting on the low nutritional value of the Fanta.
@LittleD Joke or not the your statements do imply a negative view on Asian culture. I don't know what tradition you're talking about regarding extinction. Asians practically invented and disseminated the tradition of vegetarianism, whereas the industrial revolution, which originated from Europe, is the greatest contributor of Anthropocene mass extinction.
@JustinY
I have issues with anyone who hunts rhinos to the point of extinction just for their horns. Or the push pangolins to the point of extinction in their own countries so they have to start smuggling and killing ones from other countries. And then we have shark fin soup. Cut the fins off the shark while its alive or dead and just throw out the rest. So its cruel AND wasteful AND contributes to the decrease in the shark population.
They might have introduced vegetarianism but they still use a lot of "medicines" that are obtained by killing endangered animals. I don't like sports hunters. I don't like needless suffering. I don't have a negative view of any culture. I have a negative view of traditions that are pointless, harmful, cruel, and destructive to the world.
I hate and often rage against the use of trucks by people who don't need them here in the US because they are so bad for the environment. I am against ALL sport hunting. I work in the solar industry and work to encourage people to take care of the planet. I try to only eat animal products that have been obtained in a humane manner.
The industrial revolution did start in Europe and in America white people nearly wiped out the wolves, the buffalo, and a ton of other species. But the WWF was also started in Europe and it is working to protect the wildlife. Multiple organizations have worked together to save the wolves and buffalos.
@greenlandicfangirl Me too, but that is just because my farther worked for the greenlandic government for 40 years, so I have this weird relationship with greenland, where I have I never personally been, but I have grown up hearing about greenlandic politics and greenlandic issues and my parents and my three siblings (although young) lived there for a while before I was born. My mother has a tendency to use oldfashioned words, so it was not until I was around 12, that I realised that some of the words she used were not just old danish but greenlandic. So Greenland has allways been very present to me, even though I have no real connection to it. Wich just gives me this natural soft spot for it, and interest in anything to do with it.
@RedSun47 no, they're trans women. Identify as whatever you like, doesn't MAKE you said thing. You can identify as Japanese but if you're white, born in Finland from Finnish parents, never set foot in Japan, you're still Finnish... No matter what you yourself want to be or think you are and identify as...
I deal in facts not wishes.
@Baalzie
So... if someone completed a transition to physically become a female, would she still not be a real woman to you?
Do you really think you know the facts of someone else's thoughts, mind, personal identity better than they do? Do you think a person who was born without any external features denoting what sex they are is "factually" agender, despite what their own identity and opinion on the matter is?
People like you are the ones who have rules and restrictions on what constitutes a "real" fan of something. Declaring that one is a fan of this movie or that book isn't enough, apparently, you have to have a certain "level of devotion", or perform certain actions to be counted as a real fan.
Everyone expresses their "being a fan of something" differently. The same with gender.
@StarrySky No, a man who "transforms" into a woman, will never be a woman, biologically speaking. Physiologically he will always be a man, and he will only be able to imitate the "behaviors" that he believes are feminine, when in fact there are no feminine or masculine behaviors, they are not real subjectively.
So, no, a man who wants to be a woman will never be either physically or in anything else, since he will never understand the complexity of the imaginary with respect to what it means to be a woman in society, he can only imitate what he believes is to be a "woman". And the same with women who want to be men.
@Baalzie I don't think that bought the national identities with trans is something intelligent. I don't buy the comparison at all. Example: there are groups of "white" people in China, descendants of the English who colonized China, who have been there for several generations: they are "white", but they speak Chinese, live in China and believe in the historical burden of China, therefore, they are Chinese, at least in nationality. The same happens with whites in Africa, America, Oceania, they are indetified with those places and not with Europe, where they come from. And there are many cases like that, so, I would not share comparing something so substantially different like national identities with transsexuals, definitely not.
@Baalzie No, you deal in ignorance and hate. There's a plethora of free information out there on the differences in brain function between men, women, and trans individuals, but I no more expect you to read it than I expect my dog to spontaneously do my taxes out of the goodness of her heart.
@RedSun47 While I agree, we should acknowledge that this is and will always be a matter of opinion. It's actually a quibble over terminology that will never see a winner because the universally endorsed definition of gender is old and does not specify whether gender derives from genetics, genitalia or gender identity when those aren't in agreement with one another. The Anglophone world is too divided for a new definition to ever be accepted, and as long as that doesn't happen your statement (which you presented as fact) will remain an opinion.
@Rogers Well the foam is white while the (liquid) beer color may vary. It's not like the beer ghost ever expressed preference to what kind of beer it wants.
@SchrodySweden Took me a while, but I get it! (I may or may not have had to search the word up) But if I got it immediately, id probably be UNDEAD with laughter
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