List on Animal Hatred > Animal objectification / speciesism and its specifics
Building blocks of a list of forms of animal hatred and various animal objectifying specifics
1. (‘Gentle’ aestheticised [systemic and individual] oppression)
Pastoral animal objectification
‘domestication’ –
the act of keeping nonhuman animals
to gain every right of passage,
to define, use, kill, prepare, ingest the nonhuman animal other.
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2. Animal objectification and patriarchy
A system of physical and psychological dominance
based on a biologism,
‘first man!’ and everything else is subordinate –
the lowest, being the object declared to be such.
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3. Gender and animal objectification
With culture and gender identity roles being inseparably tied together,
a culture that assumes speciesism as its practical normality
also has a developed, inbuilt “mechanism”
of the players in the pretentious staging of “humanity”
to serve like brackets on the notion of
a dignity inherent to any species and any “gender”.
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4. Animal objectification, collectivism and individualism
either, the collective and the individual
can feel their species-identity reinforced
by relegating the nonhuman animal other
into the blind spots of subjective experience.
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5. Religious animal objectification:
assumes human spirituality
as a basis for
devaluing nonhuman animal otherness.
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6. Animal objectification and spectacle:
The display of a speciesist act
of harming or killing,
to desensitize onlookers
– lessons in ‘human might’.
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7. The animal objectifying ideology of hunting:
Marking dominance over “the wilderness”
by total habitat control,
the initial instance of
declaring nonhuman animals
to be human food
– an assumed relative sameness with predators.
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8. Animal objectifying narcissism
A question of identity (human vs. animal) –
in which a human hides his/her factual individuality (i.e. human collectivism as a shield)
beneath the psychological and/or physical violence against animal dignity.
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9. Animal objectification and logics
when injustice is declared to be “making sense”;
with a limited objectivity –
underlying life the arbitrariness of
“relevance”, “utility”, “rationality”, calculation.
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10. Natural sciences and animal objectification
an abstract perspective on the world
from a human standpoint,
that locates “thinking” and
“the capacity of experiencing freedom”
in certain body parts (as complex or primitive) and their functions;
(a stance counterpointed by a basso continuo
of purposeful evolutionary “natural selection” – the survival of the “fittest”).
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The list in German can be found in this text here > https://tierrechtsethik.de/auswahl-fragmente/tierobjektifizierung-und-seine-spezifika-1/