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Vegansexuals
Posted: Mon Jul 30, 2007 10:14 pm
by possum
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4146636a11.html
You have to laugh. It is this sort of attitude and publicising it that gives veggies and vegans a bad name and prevents people taking them seriously.
Whilst it is natural to want a partner with some interests in common, trying to create a sort of movement akin to the gay movement out of it just seems ludicrous.
This is not a pop at vegans and veggies in general, please don't take it that way.
Re: Vegansexuals
Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 1:12 am
by Muddypause
I was unaware that veggies and vegans had a bad name.
But surely it is up to them who they choose to have sex with. What's your, err.., beef with that?
I have a personal principle never to have sex with a Tory. Seems perfectly reasonable to me (especially as it also seems that all Tories have a principle not to have sex with the likes of me!).
Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 1:26 am
by possum
It is not who they choose as a partner that I find hillarious, but the fact that they have to give themselves a label similar to homosexual, asexal, hetersexual as if being vegan is a sexual orientation.
Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 2:05 am
by Bonniegirl
Muddypause anyone who doesn't eat meat in NZ is seen as a bit wacky! NZ being the farming nation that it is!
Probably just another news report thats taken one element of a story and twisted it to make them look ridiculous.
Mind you a vegansexual may just be wanting to avoid some NZ'ers with previous relationships with sheep in particular!
Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 2:08 am
by possum
Now that I can understand :)
Although aren't sheep vegans?
Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 2:16 am
by Muddypause
Bonniegirl wrote:Muddypause anyone who doesn't eat meat in NZ is seen as a bit wacky!
Wacky's OK. That's not the same as bad. Wacky is just misunderstood or unappreciated. I bet we can all relate to that. But do people really think of veggies as being bad?
Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 3:36 am
by possum
I never said veggies were bad, I said that this is the sort of thing gets them "bad name" which is completely different.
Any section of society can get a bad name for something, regardless of wether it is deserved or not.
I think that if the term Vegansexual is popularised it will not aid the vegan cause in the slightest.
Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 7:44 am
by Stonehead
Before I read the article, I thought I was going to be told that vegansexuals only had sex with vegetables...
Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 9:02 am
by magenta flame
Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 9:05 am
by magenta flame
possum wrote:
Now that I can understand :)
Although aren't sheep vegans?
So if you're a vegan in New zealand then one day it won't be illegal to have sex with sheep ...........................will they then have the debate of teaching it in schools?
Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 9:45 am
by Bonniegirl
Probably, bound to be a mass debate I reckon!!!
Posted: Sat Aug 04, 2007 9:36 am
by Hippyhedgewitch
Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2007 11:46 am
by magenta flame
Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2007 12:48 pm
by Martin
bit of a toss up really! Surprised they've got the strength.........!
Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2007 7:29 pm
by mrsflibble
my sister in law said at first that she was happy for her hubby (mr flib's brother) to eat meat, but then pressured him so much that he's now a vegan with her.
i don't mind about that, it's just getting my goat that they're trying to make their dog vegan too (vegan macrobiotic doggie chow from some place on the net) and wondering why her hair is falling out.
