bi, fly, and ready to cry

because to hear even Tumblr the "gay gender website" talk people only wear harnesses while strapped into a sex swing while being fisted

but the reality is that the harness, both leather and spandex, in gay male world is like stiletto pumps, a bright red lip stick, a short skirt or push up bra.

sure some people are wearing those things because they're about to get laid or hoping to. But lots of people wear them just to feel sexy, confident or powerful. And there's nothing X rated and "shouldn't be seen in public" about any of that.

lots of gay guys wear harnesses to bars or clubs not because its a sex thing, but because its a sexy thing, they feel attractive and confident.

I get that gay men feeling attractive and confident terrifies people, but if you're at Pride and a guy walks past you in jeans and a harness, either shirtless or over his shirt, he didn't violate your civil rights or do a sex thing in front of you, he's wearing a totally appropriate outside that makes him feel confident and powerful.

We don’t have any of the large predators we used to (black bears, mountain lions, or gray wolves) but still retain large deer populations. If nothing is removing animals, they’ll quickly overload the carrying capacity of the environment and have massive losses to starvation and disease that can also pass on to livestock. Human hunters replace the large predators that our landscape can no longer support.

It’s kinder to euthanize an un-releasable hawk rather than try to find it a permanent home with humans. Wildlife rehabs have extremely limited space and resources and are usually run entirely on donated money and volunteer time. Only a few are large and stable enough to care for permanent residents long-term, and those spots are few and far between.

An invasive species poses a danger to threatened native wildlife. I will admit- Australian possums are adorable. But not in New Zealand, where they’re an invasive species that eats the eggs of ground-dwelling birds that previously had no such predators. The landowners I worked with replanting native bush, all native Maori, had no qualms about setting the dogs on them.

What is organic fertilizer made from? Bone and blood meal, from slaughterhouses. Or composted manure, from commercial livestock operations.

The fertility in the soil comes from the activities and deaths of animals. It is possible to have a fully vegan organic farm in theory, I read a whole book about it, but that’s just one ecosystem. (Full disclosure, this was homestead-scale at best, and part of this man’s system involved using human manure to fertilize hungry crops like corn where the food bit is far from the soil so you don’t have to worry about bacteria. Yes. Is it vegan if there’s animal poop in it, if it’s a human animal? Also how can you really certify that your farm is vegan? Certainly you can’t do it on a commercial scale; the mechanical harvesters of your huge monocrop fields are committing genocide on your fieldmice etcetera. The book wasn’t claiming it was vegan, btw, he was just saying he didn’t use animal inputs, so. ymmv there. i forget his name, but i’m sure it was a rodale book.)

Death is part of the circle of life, and to artificially pry animal death out of ecosystems that require it is a kind of violence.

Sure, we can try to minimize our harm, but smugly buying quinoa in the bulk section isn’t the place literally everyone should pick as the point where they stop caring.