because eating men’s meat is gay, and so on

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    I worked in record stores in the olden days, and got casually familiar with several regulars. One day, a regular customer was buying an album, and I mentioned that some artist had just dropped a new album, if he was interested.

    He got very serious, and said “That album is by a man. Do you think I’m gay?”

    I was instantly confused, and just asked " What?"

    He was getting angry now, and repeated “Do you think I’m gay? Only a gay guy would but an album by a man!”

    I had never encountered this attitude before, and I have never encountered it since, but here it was - if a man bought an album by another man, he is gay. I had never noticed that every artist this guy bought was female.

    I tried explaining that your musical choices do not reflect your sexuality, but he just yelled at me, called me the F-word a bunch of times, and left, and never returned

    I had never cared to think about it before, but after that experience, I came to the conclusion that he was DEFINITELY gay.

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      When I was a very young kid, I used to think it was weird if boys liked songs by women. Now I don’t give a shit, but it was something I used to think.

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        When I was a young kid, I liked songs by women because they were in my range. I’d go back to being 14 for one reason only. When my voice changed, I had a 10-11 month period that I could sing Soprano 1 to Bass 1. Couldn’t do Bass 2 at that point. Then my voice cracked and I could barely sing for a few months. These days I have trouble getting up to an Irish Tenor.

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    Hello there, human meat butcher, fetch me a flank of a former league of legends player that died after a diet of nothing but energy drinks and chicken tendies. Nono, this one isn’t pale enough. I want only your finest. Bring me muscles that have never been used.

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    What’s the quote about virgins from that vampire show? Something like: If you’re going to eat a sandwich, wouldn’t your prefer if no one had fucked it first?

    This seems similar.

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    “Meat with a first and last name tastes best!” - from Tender is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica

    Not a book for most people, hell sometimes I wish I hadn’t read it. But if you want to get into a fiction book on the subject this one is pretty fucked up. It’ll probably live rent free in my head for the rest of my life…

    A few other quotes that have stuck with me:

    After all, since the world began, we’ve been eating each other. If not symbolically, then we’ve been literally gorging on each other. The Transition has enabled us to be less hypocritical.

    I know that when I die somebody’s going to sell my flesh on the black market, one of my awful distant relatives. That’s why I smoke and drink, so I taste bitter and no one gets any pleasure out of my death.

    No one can call them humans because that would mean giving them an identity. They call them product, or meat, or food.

    They gave human meat the name “special meat.” Instead of just “meat,” now there’s “special tenderloin,” “special cutlets,” “special kidneys."

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      That book was a great read. I really enjoyed it, the themes of capitalist consumerism and greed were neatly wrapped up in the madness of cannibalism.

      The ending where >!the guy ends up killing the woman that became too human in his eyes!< was a great twist. Would definitely recommend that book to anyone who enjoys reading.

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    I already find it kind of weird when people talk about eating meat, especially ‘breasts’, but no one else seems to so maybe I’m weird.

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      Not “no one;” it is pretty bizarre to think about. It’s just that we’re omnivores so we eat things that either used to have eyeballs or that scream when they’re torn from the ground. Like plants react if you even have an intention of harming them, so it’s just sucky to be an omnivore with empathy in general

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    There’s a show about this. The Promised Neverland. [Redacted] raise children on farms and educate them because apparently, smarter ones taste better, but the taste drops at puberty, so they’re given 12 years max before they’re “harvested.” Saying puberty, it sounds perverse, but there’s no perverted element whatsoever to the show. It’s just straight up horror.

    The show is available (at least) in both English and Japanese. There’s a film (on Amazon Prime) that is in Japanese. I’m not sure if it got an English translation. It’s better than one might expect. At one point, Amazon was going to make an English version of the film (based on the manga, not based on the existing movie) but it never happened.

    Minor spoiler: they don’t care about race or gender, only IQ. The smartest ones go to the richest [Redacted], but commoners can typically get the “average” kids. Damn. That sounds Epstein as hell. It really isn’t. They’re strictly being raised as food, as cattle. (That, in and of itself, is a minor spoiler, but it’s revealed in the first episode.)

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      I like how you defend it multiple times. Guys this fictional dystopian story about human children raised like cattle to be harvested isn’t as bad as our reality where they’re sex trafficked to billionaires, I swear. Just some lighthearted horror sitcom. Look they put up a big seasoning box so the kids can play with that instead of sand. Ha, they keep sneezing. How cute.

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        Yeah, it’s actually a good show. Maybe give it a shot rather than shooting the messenger? Skip the second season though, it’s kind of a train wreck. (Long story short, they crammed about five seasons’ worth of content into one to satisfy contractual obligations. That said, the first season stands on its own well enough. If nothing else, pick up the manga from there and get the full story.)

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        Oh God, now I’m just having horrifying thoughts about a sandbox filled with Tony Chachere’s.

        That shit is like the super sneezing powder from Psychonauts.