As most of you know, PETA (People for Ethical Treatment of Animals) produces lots of sexist, racist, fatphobic, and even ableist ads. Their ideologies match, unfortunately. They are incredibly unreasonable, too, and they effectively want to remove companion animals from human contact entirely.
Members of PETA have done the following to me.
Attempted to take my service dog’s leash
Threatened to take him away
Sent me death threats
Threatened to euthanize him out of “mercy”
Claimed that I am a “slavedriver” and “active participant in the speciesist h*l*caust” (Ah yes, please tell the romani-german-native girl that she’s basically a Nazi. Good idea.)
Left threatening voicemails on my phone.
Scared me so badly that I had to move house at one point
Grabbed my service dog
Tried to pry my hand off of my service dog’s harness
Threw paint on a faux fur-lined coat I was wearing (the paint got matted in my hair to the point where I had to shave my head)
Speaks openly on their hatred for service dog handlers.
Adding:
Their “Adoption” services are a complete lie. Do not bring an animal to a PETA facility or allow PETA volunteers or employees to take an animal. THEY WILL KILL IT.
Their own documentation shows that they euthanize approximately 90 – 97% of all animals they take in, on a yearly basis. This includes everything from seriously injured/ill animals, to healthy puppies and kittens.
They support Breed Specific Legislation, and call for the mass extermination of all “Pit Bull-type dogs”.
if there is anyone out there who doesn’t know this – this is really important. PETA kills and terrorizes animals. They do so for their own propaganda and in turn, profit. There is nothing ethical about their treatment of animals let alone other human beings.
Their position is, supposedly, that animals are equal to humans and as such use really ableist, racist, and wildly inappropriate metaphors that undermine real human oppression and suffering. Often just for shock value. If they applied their principle, then they are basically saying that mentally ill or struggling and homeless humans should be put to death on mass.
In addition to all of the above, they also promote the idea that dairy products cause autism.
Plus, they harassed Steve Irwin’s family while they were grieving his death.
They’re pretty terrible.
The Humane Society of the United States and the SPCA are where it’s at, if you want broad, effective, and ethical animal rights organizations on a national scale, though you can be really effective seeking out your local no-kill shelter or wildlife refuge.
Also: they’ll spread lies about how animals are treated on farms. Like how you shouldn’t shear sheep. *eyerolls to infinity* They obviously forgot about the part that sheep wool doesn’t just “fall off” like winter fur and that your sheep are going to hate your guts in the upcoming summer.
I never even thought of how they’d see service animal teams.
i.e. why when you or someone else gets stabbed or impaled, you should leave the object in the wound until medical help arrives.
THIS. RIGHT HERE. This is an amazing example!!
If you take the thing out, they’re going to bleed a lot more.
SO. DONT.
News Flash from the Medical Help ™ — we don’t touch it either! Unless the object they’re impaled with is literally too big to fit in the ambulance, We. Don’t. Touch. The. Thing.
The only people qualified to Take-The-Thing-Out are surgeons. End of story.
Okay, but for the love of God, please, PLEASE, if you did, if you panicked and took the thing out…. DON’T…. PUT IT BACK IN.
Or else, congratulations, you just stabbed them AGAIN. I reeeeeally shouldn’t have to say this guys, but I do.
Coding is something most people with computers and internet access can learn at home for free. It’s not ridiculous to think any human could be skilled at all of these languages
^^^^ This.
Also she’s better than me because I wouldn’t have even said all that. I would’ve told them to all to shut the fuck up because I shouldn’t have to prove anything to stupid ass men.
Smash or pass: the sexy tuna guy from the starkist cans
Fuck marry kill: green giant, sexy tuna, mr clean
You are NOT allowed to kill mr clean
This is obvious, kill the sexy tuna because that’s just weird, fuck Mr clean because he’s ripped and you know you won’t catch anything, now here you might think marry Mr clean because he’ll clean the house, but no, his cleanliness standards would be unbearable.
marry the green giant, making you basically a pagan god through marriage, and he can probably make vegetables grow using magic and as a vegan I need that, dick probably too big to do anything with but like, pagan marriages can be poly I think
I want you to know you are so powerful to be able to begin with “this is obvious”
i’m not saying this to be snobby bc i’m not expecting everyone to know their art history and i do this too, but i do think it’s genuinely funny that whenever people online see ugly old art they assume it’s medieval art, and whenever people see complicated realistic figures and scenes they assume it’s renaissance art, or less commonly baroque.
people thinking fernando botero’s cat paintings are medieval art is especially funny cause he’s literally still alive
this image (still life with green soup) was created in 1972 and people thought it was from ~400 AD to 1400 AD, like it has a modern doorknob and a modern kettle and everything
…..does this mean cat people hurl cats at the ground?
you just kind of… open ur arms and they sort themselves out. if you try and place them down they get mad and wiggle and make everything worse
some friends of mine have the most un-cat-ish cat i have ever met
my quintessential example of this:
i was holding him in my arms petting him while we were picking out what games to play that night. when we’d decided on a few, i needed to put the cat down in order to, you know, carry boxes. so i started letting him down, expecting that he’d eventually do the cat hop thing… but he never did.
i ended up lowering him all the way to the floor. and even then he never got his feet under him. i just sort of… plopped him down on his side as he stared up at me like a betrayed sack of flour.
I saw this so clearly in my mind and I’m never going to stop laughing at betrayed sack of flour.
He wasn’t done being held!!!
i have had multiple cats that enjoyed being bowled
yeah. drop cat? fine. toss cat? fine. bowl cat? also fine. as long as the cat is cool with you personally and familiar with the thing, none of these will hurt them or distress them. one of my cats would actively solicit bowling on a stretch of smooth floor.
and then there was maya, who enjoyed being launched across the room from the bed by foot catapult. cats are made of rubber basically.
contrast my mom’s dog george, who would get up on the couch, then cry to be helped down because he was scared to jump.
My cat used to use the sofa as a runway before launching himself across the living room to land on the bean bag. Then he would meow loudly until I fluffed the goddamn bean bag back up.
my cat has arthritis so i put him down gently. But every single time I have him in my arms and we get close to my bed he tries to Cat by leaping out of my fucking arms.
And since he really can’t get enough air i end up usually throwing him onto the bed. Once he tried while we were too far away and i basically threw him into the side of the bed where he bounced off.
fucking cats
I have done this out of horrible, horrible reflex to so many little yappy dogs.
