There is no need for leather in the world and the argument that buying secondhand is acceptable is bullshit.

The point isn’t that no additional animal died to make the garment. The point is that it’s fucked up to want to look like you’re wearing the skin of an animal.

Which is hard when there are whole cultures and subcultures based around the aesthetic of leather. It’s not something we need to hold onto and it’s okay to say that it was a part of history, but we have to let those things to move forward in collective liberation.

We can move from Leather Daddies to Denim Daddies.

I can appreciate that it’s not alive, but I want to point out that the fact that it being dead, it still looks alive. It’s just I thought seeing a moving creature in a visibly injured state would be too disturbing to want to eat.

I thought you were talking about Ikizukuri. It’s such a fucked up way to treat a living creature and it’s all for aesthetics.

Eating an animal alive is pointlessly cruel, and I wish that seeing it would break the illusion for people about the pointlessly cruel things animals experience behind closed doors.

(Major CW for Ikizukuri if you try to look it up.) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ikizukuri

And Other Wild Takes.

Also, how bad was Martin Luther?

How is this not already an emoji?

I just wish that gaydar was a thing or homophobia wasn’t a thing. The ambiguity of lgbt subtext in conversation is so hard to navigate and it’s risky if you’re not sure the other person is interested or not.

I’d love to have specific and direct language, but I know it’s a big ask outside of dedicated safe spaces.