9% of women in the U.S. identify as vegan compared to 3% of men (medium.com)

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It seems the fairer sex has taken to the fairer diet in greater numbers than their male counterparts. According to the data, a full 9% of women in the United States now identify as vegan, compared to a paltry 3% of men.

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[-] aaaaaaadjsf@hexbear.net 40 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Have you actually read this article? It's full of bio essentialist nonsense. There is even weird talk of chromosomes. It also states that vegan men are emasculated. It honestly reads like a vegan J.K Rowling wrote this.

One must ask, what accounts for this striking disparity? Is it that the gentler sex is simply more in tune with the moral and environmental imperatives of eschewing animal products? Or is there something more primal, more innate to the feminine psyche that draws women toward a plant-based lifestyle?

I would argue it is the latter. For women, the decision to go vegan is not merely a rational calculation, but an expression of their very nature — a nature that is more nurturing, more empathetic, more attuned to the suffering of the innocent. Men, by contrast, are driven by baser urges — a need to dominate, to consume, to assert their masculinity through the mastery of the animal kingdom.

This is not to say there are no vegan men. There are, of course, a few outliers — the sensitive souls, the intellectual elites, the emasculated sycophants who have traded their Y-chromosomes for a plate of lentils. But by and large, the vegan movement remains the domain of the fairer sex.

[-] BeamBrain@hexbear.net 16 points 6 months ago

traded their Y-chromosomes for a plate of lentils

Wow is that all it takes? BRB telling all the transwomen I know

[-] Angel@hexbear.net 9 points 6 months ago

As a transfem vegan, gender discourse regarding veganism is simultaneously highly frustrating and highly validating. Regardless, saying something like "Giving a fuck about animal liberation is totes a beta, womanly, soyboy cuck thing." is of the highest imaginable category of cringe.

[-] aaaaaaadjsf@hexbear.net 7 points 6 months ago

Fist we had soy soy-cutie making you a woman, now it's lentils lol

[-] jack@hexbear.net 6 points 6 months ago

I wonder if it's ironic? He argues for veganism in another recent post: https://medium.com/@chrisjeffrieshomelessromantic/list-of-20-champion-vegan-athletes-25ef8d7e6276

[-] aaaaaaadjsf@hexbear.net 18 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I'm not saying that he isn't arguing for veganism, he obviously is. I'm just taking issue with the arguments made that there is something biologically innate to women that makes them more likely to be vegan. Benevolent sexism is still sexism at the end of the day. And I'd also say that the differences in social conditioning between men and women have a much larger role to play in this difference than anything inherently biological.

Maybe it's one big ironic paragraph, but I don't have a medium account so I can't read the full piece.

Here is the full article, thanks to archive sites

https://archive.is/gC6V1

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