• 5714@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    91·
    2 months ago

    Ah, the next generation of gatekeeping is there. More radical than us olde gen z, amirite?

    On a more serious note, glossy diet veganism has serious issues, but missing radicalism is not its biggest problem. Anarchism, just like feminism, is not determined by optics. Don’t get me wrong, I like the militant punk aesthetic as well.

    Non-glossy vegan anarchists post on IG too.

    I’d argue that one of diet veganism’s problems is its coupling to lookism where veganism is seen as a tool to achieve body control.

    On the other hand, I doubt that symbolic animal liberation can recruit activists or act as help among many diet vegans as long as this gatekeeping (except for honey, ie veganism itself) exists.

  • Fox [any, she/her]@vegantheoryclub.orgEnglish
    7·
    2 months ago

    Going to a vegan “meetup” irl and everyone there eats honey, uses second hand leather, or has cheat days and look at me like I have two heads when I say I don’t do any of this ¯_(ツ)_/¯

    • TheOakTree@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      2 months ago

      The age-old problem with ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ is that it sucks in Markdown. As a fellow ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ enjoyer, I would like to share that the first arm you type requires three of \ because a backslash tells Markdown to ignore the special properties of the next character. This is called “escaping” a character.

      Underscores italicize the text they surround, so the first backslash is read as escaping underscore if you paste the ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ in its regular form. The 1st backslash escapes the 2nd. The 2nd is displayed normally since it is escaped. The third escapes the following underscore to prevent the italicization of (ツ) and consequently the missing of shoulders.

      I hope this helps you enjoy ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ more in the future!