{"id":762929,"date":"2021-02-07T09:02:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-07T14:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=762929"},"modified":"2021-02-07T09:02:00","modified_gmt":"2021-02-07T14:02:00","slug":"theater-of-the-absurd-sociologist-claims-veganism-promotes-white-masculinity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=762929","title":{"rendered":"THEATER OF THE ABSURD: Sociologist claims Veganism promotes ‘white masculinity’"},"content":{"rendered":"\t
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White men use their diet to bolster their masculinity by explaining their choice to become vegan in ways that evoke logics of rationality, science, and reason.<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/blockquote>\n\n

TONI AIRAKSINEN:<\/strong> A sociology instructor at North Carolina State University (NCSU) is warning in a new academic article that vegan men are guilty of perpetuating \u201cwhite masculinity.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cMeatless meals and masculinity\u201d was written by Mari Mycek, a doctoral candidate and teaching assistant in the NCSU sociology department, who argues that vegan and vegetarian men have reclaimed their \u201cpreviously-stigmatized consumption identity\u201d to wield power over women by framing their lifestyle as a rational, rather than emotional, choice.<\/p>\n

Though some scholars claim that eating meat causes \u201ctoxic masculinity,\u201d Mycek came to a different conclusion based on interviews with 20 vegan men, asserting that they actually tend to \u201cuphold gendered binaries of emotion\/rationality and current ideas of middle-class, white masculinity.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mycek argues that vegan men use their diet to bolster their masculinity \u201cby explaining their choice to become [vegan] in ways that evoke logics of rationality, science, and reason, concepts that also traditionally get coded as masculine.”<\/p>\n

Observing that \u201cthese performances of masculinity are aligned with white middle-class social norms and expectations,\u201d she contends that middle-class men are uniquely poised to take advantage of this status-building strategy.<\/p>\n

Mycek also frames veganism as a privilege for the elite, explaining that it symbolizes for men \u201ca form of cultural capital and a symbolic resource, a way to align oneself with those who have the privilege of choice when it comes to food decisions”…<\/p>\n

Mycek also argues that men who cite expert research on the benefits of veganism are enacting white middle-class masculinity, since \u201cfacts\u201d conflict with more feminine sources of knowledge such as \u201cvalue\u201d or \u201copinion”. SOURCE…<\/strong><\/a>
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