Tri-City Veg Mini-Documentary starring me, ha ha

Here is a short documentary about my local veg group! Thanks to the maker, John Young!

Run in with a heteronormative male

So I'm not sure what it is, but it's hard for me to get a long with heteronormative males even when I go undercover and try.

Latest Example:

I was at the bar before work having a beer. As I approached a table, a man called me over to his table. It was a man from my Spanish class. It took me only three minutes to piss him off so bad that he and his friend had to leave. He was giving me hell for drinking a "shitty" beer, and guessed what brand it was. He told me he had a special ability for guessing what things are. I jokingly said that it wasn't a good example of his abilities due to the beer I was drinking being the cheapest drink and only beer on the special board. He suddenly became angry and told me I was being a "dick". I tried to apologize and he became more angry with me, telling me to "just drop it, that's enough about it".

He and his friend got up and left.

I felt rejected and alienated at first, then I got over it.

This kind of thing always happens to me when I am put in a social situation with "normal" men.

BONES

I know it's a little late to be posting this, so I'm not going to write a lot about it. I am surprised how many references to animal cruelty the show BONES contains. It's nice to see a mainstream and popular program to shed light on animal cruelty and shed positive light on activists who fight against it.

One episode involved someone using a stun gun to kill someone. When agent Booth asks Dr. Brennan, "Who could do this to somebody?"

Dr. Brennan replies, "Who could do this to a pig?"

In one episode a murder takes place inside of a chicken factory farm. There are activists protesting the cruelty and abuse of the chickens, when Booth (who is the strong masculine male character) sees the inside of the facility he makes reference to understanding why the activists are upset. The episode contains images of animal cruelty taken from real life factory farms, and some of the characters are disturbed. The murderer does not turn out to be any of the activists but I won't ruin it for you.

There are more references through out the series, I would assume this has a lot to do with Emily Deschanel being a vegan in her real life.

With PETA it never ends.... My Boyfriend Went Vegan PETA ad is profoundly offensive.

What's up fellow feminists? I am a quite passionate feminist and have somewhat radical views. I am also just as passionate a vegan and animal rights advocate. PETA has been long angered me as a feminist with it's portrayal of photo shopped models, this is something I have spoke out against on my personal blog and as a writer for thisdishisveg.com. PETA responded quick and responded to me with a personal letter that addressed none of my points and accuses me of being sexist. Anyway if you follow my blog then you know about my whole thing with PETA. WELL PETA IS AT IT AGAIN! Just watch their new ad and let me see how it sits with you. I was deeply offended as a feminist and a vegan. Before watching this video, please note that studies do show that people who partake in a vegan diet often make better lovers. (Don't blame me, that's the facts!) This video is sexist because the woman is the classic sex victim and receiver of violence, and is portrayed that she enjoys it. Therefore inviting men to think that if they go vegan they will be able to perform intercourse so rough and violent that it will result in the woman having to go to the hospital and some how we think that's a good thing. This is offensive to vegans because, as usual, PETA is providing yet another false portrayal of women and once again making all vegans seem like insane young sex-crazed women. Screw you PETA!

Here is the ad.....

After watching the ad, I checked out what people on YouTube were saying and I was pleased to see that the top rated comment said:

My problem with this campaign has nothing to do with veganism. It's the positive portrayal of women getting physically injured by their boyfriends. Yes, I get the "joke" of amazing sexual prowess by veganism, but nevertheless, you've ended up with a campaign where you try to get people to do a particular thing, and then show that thing by boyfriends causing girls to wear neck braces and eyepatches. It's very counter-productive.

BlackMoonLilith 7 hours ago 86

As you can see. 86 others backed the comment. The 2nd top rated comment was something similar to say. HEY PETA, look at your comments and maybe you can see how idiotic you are acting.

Sadly there were ignorant comments such as:

"is literally idiot"... right... Clearly this is a joke, Peta is not advocating marital abuse and clearly she is shown to enjoy it. Peta, along with all male enhancement, beer commercials, etc, have recognized the one of the few ways to get through to the average philistine man is to exploit sexual performance. Can't blame them for knowing their audience. I have a feeling 90% of the down votes here are from carnivores that are self conscious of their sexual performance.

timelessmhl161 7 hours ago

1 thing they also don't mention is that when someone goes vegan they have to start taking protein pills and more vitamins because they arent getting the proper nutrition they need from eating vegetables

GladHero1 7 hours ago 4

SHE HAD SEX, SHE WASNT BEATIN OR ABUSED PEOPLE!!!

0:15

This is a joke.

"Boyfriend brings it like a tantric pornstar."

She hit her head on the wall during

COME ON PEOPLE!!!

This commercial was halarious.

KlassicNorm 7 hours ago

This video rules!

Folks need to lighten up, Kevin Nealon does the narration for this video. It's clearly just a tongue-in-cheek joke about some really vigorous, long lasting sex with her newly vegan boyfriend. She doesn't have any bruises, or cuts. Her boyfriend is clearly a hipster nerd who doesn't understand his sex-strength and she is feeling so good she challenged him with a bag of celery.

She got her bottom knocked out folks! I'm sure his penis hurts, too.

have some sex, it's fun!

azazelspupil12 8 hours ago

My scooter was stolen

To most people I know that it seems like I am handling this pretty well. The truth of the matter is.......THAT I'M PISSED! Can you believe this nonsense? I mean who the hell steals someone's bike? People can be pretty sick. You know what? I actually liked that bike. An orange and white Honda Metropolitan of glory. People laughed at me sometimes as they passed me buy....... I didn't care, it was fun to ride. Now I have to walk everywhere I go or bother someone for a ride. I mean it's not bad walking to work or school, but it's still annoying..... Mostly because the reason that I'm walking is because SOMEONE STOLE MY BIKE!

Now I have to go through the whole insurance claim process, which you know what's like if you've ever filed a claim for a stolen vehicle. For those of you who don't I will say this:

It's like your sibling took your toy and hid it from you. You aren't sure who did it but you tell your mom it's missing, but for some reason she starts searching your room. You are like, "Hey mom, what the heck?! SOMEONE STOLE IT! It's not in my room!"

And then your mom is like, "Yo son, I gotta make sure you didn't steal it yourself just to try and get a new toy!"

So you're all like, "What?! Are you kidding me mom?!"

Your mom replies, "I just have to make sure it's not fraud."

Facepalm.

It gets worse and more annoying, but geez I've had enough already just typing about it. It's going to take forever to replace it. Whoever stole my bike, karma is going to kick your ass.

Cut my hair for the cause!

The new semester is about to start and so I cut off my hair! Some people begged me not to do it, others have been begging me to do it....for years! Well the time has finally come. The time of my hair being cut from my head. Well how does it look?

WHY?!?!?!

Here is why I did it. As you may know I am an activist for animals. This means I have to talk to new people and give presentations to strangers at times. People like an approachable look. I feel that my old haircut intimidated people in some way or another, at times. Although I already knew this, it was pointed out to me by a classmate last semester. Once this happened I started thinking about the possibility that someone might have stuck around to hear me out just because I seemed like a normal approachable man. So yeah, I did it for the animals! (but I think it looks good :p)

Calling out my classmates

So I couldn't help it, I called out my classmates in Women's Studies class, Here is what I said....

So..... A lot of presentations about marriage on the day I presented "Hot Dog Penises and Vaginal Pies: How Food is Gendered through the Context of the Media", I noticed.

First of all I would like to apologize to my classmates for whose presentation I missed, I truly regret missing them.

With that being said, if you did your "research" project about marriage and it was in the style of the presentations I witnessed on December 1st, then I am calling you out. For one thing, you all just told us about the stereotypical aspects and information about weddings that we all already know. The stuff we have been conditioned to know about marriage since birth pretty much. Where are the findings of your RESEARCH???? I certainly didn't learn anything new. Perhaps you are from somewhere that marriage does not exist, so your presentation was actually new findings for you! Maybe you did not understand the assignment? Maybe you were just lazy? Maybe a combination? Whatever the reason, I am disappointed. How come no one talked about how marriage is literally a property exchange, where the woman is the property being sold/given from one man to another? How come no one talked about how the concept of the white wedding effects men and women in our culture? How come no one talked about non christian weddings? It seemed non traditional weddings were hardly mentioned, and very briefly at that I could go on all day about the social institution of marriage and try to teach you about marriage and the different social aspects of the issue, but THAT'S WHAT YOU WERE SUPPOSE TO DO! Right? You could have at least regurgitated the material on marriage from class but you didn't even do that! Geez, next time actually do some research as the title of the assignment, "Research Project", implies. What you all did would be like if I got up for my presentation and explained to you what food literally is and gave the book definition of gender.

"Hi, my name is Steven Garnett. I did my research on food and gender. Gender is....well crap I forgot, how about sex? Sex is if you are a male or

female! That's the same as gender right?! Let me tell you about food! Carrots and Grains are food! You can eat them! People eat them for lunch everyday!!!"

It's disrespectful to the instructor and your classmates, and yes I can be kind of a douche.

And just so you know, I am not against people getting married. I am happily divorced myself! My choices in life and my opinions in this post have nothing to do with how I was raised, I assure you!

(Uh oh! What ya gonna do?!)

Oh and one last thing! While I'm complaining let me offer you some advice. Stop making power points where everything you say is bulleted in power point. This is boring and makes for a dull presentation....You folks are in college.