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If you care about Animal Cruelty in Factory Farms, you need to get legislation passed. It must become a crime to mistreat animals in those ways, and when malfeasances occurs, the onus of responsibility for those crimes must fall upon wealthy shoulders. That, also, requires legislation. It requires regulations, and regulators.

The largest source of Microplastics is wear and tear on automobile tires. It doesn’t matter what brand of shampoo you buy. It doesn’t matter which company you support with your dollar. The issue of Public Transit is too large-scale to be handled at anything less than the municipal level.

It’s not enough to just not participate in society

If you want the world to Change, you must leverage the mechanisms of political power.

An old door from a small town, painted on sea pottery.

In early twenty-first century homosexual dating, gay and bisexual men (like most allosexual individuals of any gender and sexuality) often have aesthetic preferences for their partners. They will self-describe their aesthetic as well as the aesthetic they are looking for when setting up dating profiles.

The humor of the above is that Fozzie Bear, a fictional "Muppet" (marionette/puppet hybrid developed by Jim Hansen) stylized after a "teddy bear" toy and the "bear" animal directly, described themselves as a "bear" (a literal appellation for the fictional character) on a dating website. Because of the context of a dating website, the implication is that his profile got a lot of attention from homosexual and bisexual men searching for a partner with a "bear" aesthetic. This accidental miscommunication is to Fozzie's detriment, as he is looking for someone interested in muppet bears. It can further be implied that he is looking for heterosexual or bisexual women, based on his assertion that the responses are "wrong for him."

Fozzie Bear, as a character, is known for his love of puns and word play, so it is possible that he is, in the context of the fictional show, telling a joke rather than recounting a fictional event. For the purpose of the audience watching the show, this is an immaterial distinction, as the joke was written for the audience either way.