whats with the “im vegan” stereotype. all the vegans i know are reluctant to tell people theyre vegan and all the carnists i know love telling people why they cant be vegan and how much they love meat
And many omnivores are happy to “out” vegans in a group…..
I’ve actually had this happen to me once or twice. I hope you don’t mind if I share a personal experience, but a few months ago, my flatmates were having some kind of dinner party where they were cooking some kind of beef and spaghetti bake. I came to the kitchen to fetch some water and they offered me some, and I politely declined. I mentioned nothing about being vegetarian or vegan or whatever. Then one of the flatmates, with a slight smirk on her face, quickly says ‘She’s a vegetarian.’
Though nobody made any nasty remarks about it, I still couldn’t help but feel a bit irked that this is a perfect example of how we don’t even have to introduce ourselves as vegans because somebody else will quickly announce it for us.
And yet people have the audacity to make the ‘how do you know someone is vegan’ jokes.
@cynical-veggie I totally know this and can relate. We’ve all had so many ridiculous experiences, and true, they “out” us announcing it to everyone that we’re vegan, crossing boundaries. They’d certainly never out a(n) LGBTQ person…. Why do it to us????
i appreciate everyone telling their own experiences on this post but it makes me really uncomfortable that youre comparing being vegan to being lgbt. i chose to be vegan. in proud of it and i dont regret Choosing it. i never chose to be gay & trans. i have to live in fear constantly and get deadnamed and ridiculed.
the worst thing that could happen if my friend said i was vegan to someone is id get made fun of or told how much they like meat. the worst thing that could happen if my friend told someone i was gay/trans is i could get raped or killed. its not comparable and it makes me upset you would draw that comparison
I see me being vegan very personal, I don’t share that with just anyone – talking about me…. That’s why I used the comparison. If you knew how I grew up and the family that I was born into, you would see the comparison. I can’t talk to family members because of my life, I’ve been judged, and ridiculed. Some have actually have a parallel to LGBTQ. Until you’ve been a part of a cattle ranching and butcher shop owning family – you have no idea how much it’s a parallel
Ok, but again being judged and ridiculed is different from being murdered or assaulted for being who you are. I don’t know that I’ve heard of a cattle owning family killing their child because they’re vegan. Also wouldn’t someone have to be LGBT as well to fully understand the parallel? I’m not dismissing your experience, but that doesn’t necessarily clear the comparison. Also like while you may be committed to it, veganism is a choice, if you wanted to, you could theoreticallly change any time you want. (Not saying you would or should)
I’m not saying that there aren’t challenges there, but they are born from a different cause than the challenges and fears of LGBT people and so are not necessarily comparable, and there is a difference in risk. There is a lot of things that set me a part from others in my family, but very few of them carry the weight and risk as when someone finds out I’m gay.
Also if someone from the affected group mentions they are uncomfortable with it, I think one should maybe step back and consider it before leaping in to defend it. We as vegans can’t just co-opt other people’s struggles and then dismiss those people when they call us out on it.
Also LGBT people get outed against their will all the time. So yes people very much would do that to an LGBT person.
Actually, I could be killed by family – Sicilian Mafia is a part of the family. I’m being dismissed for having a parallel of experiences I never said the same and parallels mathematically realistically never meet they’re always linlier with each other. I never said that I was the same I said it was like – like is a similarity. I’m done with this conversation and thank you for making me feel not welcomed in a community where we all ultimately have the same goal – to live in peace with each other having a some level of solidarity….
hey this is why we hate vegans in the first place
the sicilian mafia killed them….. for being a vegan
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