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the gun the song and the end

Created on 2008-02-23 18:20:15 (#15006437), last updated 2009-11-21

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Name:	alexandria burning
Birthdate:	1985-02-04
Location:	Monster land, (states/regions/territories)
Website:	Irune + Alex's vegblog

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Alex. 24.
I'm a sadomasochist. I play with power, and the more I do, the less I find that power is able to play with me.

Sorting hats usually tell me i'm a ravenclaw.
but i disagree. i feel i'm
70% hufflepuff, 30% slytherin. the end.

Anarchist at heart.

It matters to me, I don't know why. I didn't choose it. It might be purely that I can imagine myself going through what they're going through and I want to stop it. There has been an undeclared war on animals since the beginning of time because they're vulnerable, because you can pick on them, because they can't arm themselves, because they don't know that you're coming, they can't cry surrender. And yet we continue to round them up, imprison them, strip them of everything, and slaughter them; for what? for clothes, cosmetics and food that we can live without.

bisexual: refers to SEX, not gender. It's about sexual behavior. Heterosexual people may engage in occasional homosexual behavior just out of curiosity or fun.
genderqueer: united by their rejection of the notion that there are only two genders. A catchall term for gender identities other than man and woman. Gender seen as a continuum between man and woman, with the two traditional genders at the two poles and their own genderqueer place as somewhere within the continuum, bearing in mind that those man and woman poles are in fact a social construct.

Documentary "I am an animal"
I neither love nor hate Peta. Some of their campaigns infuriate me. I agree with in-yer-face messages, since society doesn't seem to react to anything nowadays unless you slap them in the face, but Peta sometimes is alienating and disrespectful to the point of creating enemies. However it can't be argued that their investigations are the #1 in the world to get their point across, they are VISIBLE, people simply cannot ignore them. They do more than anyone else for Animal Rights at this point in history. I liked I am an animal because it protrays both sides of the organisation.

Documentary "Earthlings"
Still to this day, I am absolutely incapable of finishing Earthlings, it's too much. I didn't eat for days after it came out.

BookSeer

"When slaves rose up against their masters, whites weren't ready but the slaves were. When woman demanded to vote, men weren't ready, but women were... the people who eat sausages and buy leather furniture and go dog sledding and throw octopuses on the ice during ball games may not be ready for animal rights, but the animals are ready, they've been ready, they are ready and we had better not let them down." Ingrid E. Newkirk.

"The position we hold-the abolitionist position-is often said to be "extreme," and those of us who hold it are said to be "extremists." The unspoken suggestions are that extreme positions cannot be right and that extremists must be wrong.
But I am an extremist when it comes to rape-I am against it all the time. I am an extremist when it comes to child abuse- I am against it all the time. I am an extremist when it comes to sexual discrimination, racial discrimination-I am against it all the time. I am an extremist when it comes to abuse of the elderly- I am against it all the time. The plain fact is, moral truth often is extreme, and must be, for when the injustice is absolute, then one must oppose it-absolutely. It is not larger, cleaner cages that justice demands in the case of animals used in science, for example, but empty cages: not "traditional" animal agriculture, but a complete end to all commerce in the flesh of dead animals; not "more humane" hunting and trapping, but the total eradication of these barbarous practices.
For when an injustice is absolute, one must oppose it absolutely. It was not "reformed" slavery that justice demanded, not "re- formed" child labor, not "reformed" subjugation of women. In each of these cases, abolition was the only moral answer. The philosophy of animal rights demands this same answer—abolition. It is not the details of unjust exploitation that must be changed. It is the unjust exploitation itself that must be ended, whether on the farm, in the lab, or among the wild, for example. The philosophy of animal rights asks for nothing more, but neither will it be satisfied with anything less." Tom Regan

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