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Carol Adams has made a career out of comparing women and animals. An author famous for works like The Pornography of Meat and Living Among Meat Eaters, she now makes her living by going from campus to campus presenting her slide show entitled “The Sexual Politics of Meat...
Harvard, like dozens of other campuses, fell victim to Ms. Adams’ slide show a week ago—given in the ironic location of Quincy Dining Hall—with the gleeful imprimatur of Quincy Co-Master Jayne Loader. To Loader, she is “the most provocative and interesting theorist working in the animal rights field.” That’s one way to put it, but it’s best to let Ms. Adams speak for herself...
...argues, Nixon’s and Khruschev’s debates in a model kitchen are an allegory to the “sexual politics of meat.” And she claims that even the seemingly benign symbols of our carno-centric culture—in her slide show, a cartoon pig with barely noticeable eyelashes—are really insidious elements which further the oppression of women (and animals) by “feminizing animals and animalizing females...
...argues, Nixon’s and Kruschev’s debates in a model kitchen are an allegory to the “sexual politics of meat.” And she claims that even the seemingly benign symbols of our carno-centric culture—in her slide show, a cartoon pig with barely noticeable eyelashes—are really insidious elements which further the oppression of women (and animals) by “feminizing animals and animalizing females...
...slide show’s message is contained quite aptly in one image that shows a steak, a garnish of parsley, and asparagus. “Don’t tell me these advertisers don’t know exactly what they’re doing,” admonishes Ms. Adams as she flips to this image, apparently a comment directed at people like me who see, well, a steak with some vegetables. She lets her warning set in and then explains: the steak is really a “fragmentized referent” to the female body...