“no, you see, people who abuse animals are broadly hated in society, and that hatred is normative, which means that the act of kicking a dog into the grand canyon is transgressive, and everything transgressive is queer, so therefore animal abuse is queer, so therefore we should add dog-kickers to the acronym immediately. i have already made a dog-kicker pride flag. if you criticize my brand-new dog-kicker pride flag then you are reactionary. if you criticize my friends who are only queer in the sense that they kick dogs then that is respectability politics. if you warn people not to walk their dogs in the park that me and my fellow dog-kickers hang out at then that’s cancel culture. if you call the cops on my friend who refers to himself as ‘Dog-Kicker Champion’ merely because he has adopted 8 dogs in the past 8 months yet there are no dogs in his apartment and something isn’t adding up, that’s actually carceral. maybe those dogs WANTED to get kicked into the grand canyon, did you ever consider that? if you really cared about animal welfare you would let the dogs get adopted by D.K.C. because at least then they wouldn’t be in a crowded shelter. I actually think it’s much more suspicious that you want to CONTROL what happens to these dogs.”
