The Trinketeir

Their genitals are being cut with razors without anesthesia for the sexual pleasure of adult husbands, and they’re being sold for necessities those in the West relish because our countries ravage their resources. But people only wanna bring that up if they’re bashing on Arab/Black people as a collective (even though that includes those very girls) and justify ICE/brutalization of immigrants.

Billionaires had a child sex trafficking island and no one has time to care or hold anyone accountable because they’re more nervous that a trans person will play a sport than they are that children were trafficked and eaten or that babies were starved so they could be used to fellaciate pedophiles.

Livestock animals are being beaten, branded, made to live knee deep in their own feces, perpetually impregnated, put in cages so small they can’t turn around, drowned, left to bleed out when butchers trying to meet a 175 per minute quota (if there IS even a limit) miss the bolt gun shot, workers getting exposed to unsafe working conditions in slaughterhouses, factory farms producing actual cess pools that devastate towns and unbelievable carbon emissions (especially nitrous oxide and methane), all for something entirely avoidable

But yeah whatever. I’ll just wake up every day and pretend like I’m not thinking about this all the time because if I say any of this in a way that sounds too patronizing or too preachy or too wokescoldy I’ll make people uncomfortable or frustrated so they’ll never want to hear about any of this again, much less try to do anything.

And even still I get the luxury to not think about it, or rather, to only have to THINK about it. People experience this.

There are attempts to reverse the already incredibly small protections for factory farmed animals in America.

First, to emphasize, this is not a Vegan only issue. You don’t need to be Vegan to oppose factory farming and you don’t need to be able to do everything, just whatever is within your ability. Truly just spreading information about practices in factory farming goes a long way.

As long as it stays in the conversation, because for as widespread as this issue is, and as cataclysmic as it has been for workers, rural/marginalized communities, the environment, and of course livestock animals, it is not nearly talked about enough.

If you have even 5 minutes (and even that might be longer than needed), please fill out your information near the bottom of the page to email your senator to oppose The Save Our Bacon Act. The email portion is already filled out and you can edit it if you’d like.

For context, the Save Our Bacon Act H.R.4673 and Food Security and Farm Protection Act S.1326 are 2025-2026 Acts that will nullify state AND local regulations on production of agricultural livestock, including California’s Proposition 12 and Massachusetts Question 3.

This means confinement standards would be dropped, that these small standards of animal welfare would no longer be protected.

Keep contacting senators. Keep speaking out. Your voice can do so much more than they would want you to believe.

In terms of people supporting him, there’s a lot of misogyny regarding the idea that if Nikki “just reciprocated”, she’d be fine, which is ridiculous because she doesn’t owe him mutual attraction and someone not liking you back is not a reason to hurt them, nor is being attracted to them equivalent to you having a claim on their entire existence.

In terms of people opposing him, there’s still some misogyny in how people misconstrue scenes that add complexity and contrast to his actions of possessiveness and acting like they exemplified that all along.

I don’t think it was wrong for people to initially give Bear the benefit of the doubt, because I think a lot of the horror comes from there being a very thin line between what AT FIRST seems to be Bear believing it’s a genuine romance that coincidentally coincided with a wish/that playing along would be a way to keep them both safe OR ignoring the signs that Nikki is not herself as an excuse to continue exploiting her for his own desire.

He couldn’t exactly just leave or just seek help when there was magic involved and while she was capable of hurting herself of someone else (bashing her head in, cooking Sandy, having a breakdown when he rejects her advances), but that’s not the point.

The point was, despite this situation being very complex and there not being a clear “just leave duh” option, we see just enough to infer that Bear is more upset about the fact that Nikki isn’t acting like the girlfriend he wants than the fact that she is trapped and isn’t herself.

If he had his way and could alter the wish, he would probably want to keep the wish as it is but have Nikki act like “herself”.

The problem is that the person Nikki is, is a person who is not romantically attracted to Bear.

This could be part of why he wants her.

Even from the beginning when he calls her “Freaky Nikki” as she walks away despite knowing Ian is wrong about her liking it.

Again, this is something that could be on the line of him saying it to spite her for not reciprocating OR him genuinely second guessing what he thinks she’d appreciate and trying to connect, but later there’s more evidence for the former.

When Nikki is half asleep, her conscious, original self talks and begs him to kill her while the wish version of her is asleep. Bear responds with “what’s so bad about loving me?”

THIS is the problem. THIS is where we see that these actions, which by themselves can’t be used to determine his motivations because they’ve been shown to have two possible motivations, have after all been rooted in HIS obsession.

And despite how much this line is talked about, I still think a lot of people, even those who are AGAINST Bear, still miss the point.

It’s not that this line is a part of a string of behavior that was overtly related to seeing Nikki as a symbol of fulfilling his own ego, it was that this line recontextualized behavior that wouldn’t necessarily be rooted in that belief.

The problem isn’t that Bear didn’t manage to paternalistically protect Nikki from everything, or that he didn’t date Sarah to placate her just because she liked him and lived in a lie with her, or that he respected his grown woman friend’s autonomy to let her pay for their drinks in one instance (this was a real complaint I saw… people now are claiming letting women make their own decisions and using their own money is misogynistic).

The problem is that he was in a situation that allowed him to indulge in his desires at the expense of someone else without the consequences of responsibility.

After all, he didn’t know.

Bear was a victim but that doesn’t mean he’s a hero. Someone could have acted the way he did with the genuine intent of avoiding harm, but the horror is that we see just enough to know that this situation, where he’s not just with Nikki but spiting her for not reciprocating, is what he wished for, and that even if it isn’t entirely clear when it happened, there was a point where Bear let it happen.

In the same way, someone could’ve acted in the complete opposite way Bear did and still be motivated by a misogynistic mindset. In fact, someone in the movie did: Ian.

Ian was opposed to Bear’s relationship with Nikki, but it wasn’t because he cared about Nikki and was worried about her. He was opposed to it because he thought it was socially abnormal and was concerned about Bear’s image regardless of if he actually was taking advantage of Nikki or not. From the beginning, he tried to stifle Nikki’s autonomy by sabotaging Bear’s confession.

He didn’t do this because he knew Nikki didn’t like him, because he could’ve just told Bear that she didn’t or let Nikki decide herself how to respond and with her own words reject his advances.

He did this because he likely wanted to keep her as an “option” given that they were hooking up.

It’d be a horrifying to realize you were torturing someone without knowing because of a wish. It’d be even more horrifying to realize that it was, all along, exactly what you wanted.

Womanhood is absolutely part of the story too, but I think a lot of the time white women hijack the conversation regarding this book as a way to present their womanhood as the ultimate victimhood, and overlooking how their privilege of living as WHITE women specifically is also relevant to the discussion of this novel.

Frankenstein was written at a time in which black bodies were used as science experiments, and when white people didn’t find a way to use them for their own benefit, their very existence was a scorn.

Many black babies were used to lure alligators, and it was gleefully depicted in art and postcards.

But when slave revolts started to occur and black slaves killed their white captors for freedom, it was presented as unreasonable acts of violence.

Suddenly there were “two sides” and black slaves crossed the line of two communities that were only then presented on an equal playing field because it was convenient.

The creature is viewed as inhumane, a being beyond conventional ideas of gender or race.

From birth, he is only treated with abuse and torture, no matter what he does. Acts of kindness and malice are met with the same scorn, because it has nothing to do with who he has and everything to do with what people think his existence represents.

He exists in a body that survives suffering meant to kill a human because humans are not supposed to take it. Over and over and over.

He’s hurt by people who go on with their lives without guilt, like it’s just the way it is in a way he never could without facing repercussions and viewed as inherently monstrous. He understands cognitively it’s not right, but mentally he’s running beyond thin.

Suddenly, when he kills, he’s humanized, but only to be held to the standards of humanity, only as a way to be scorned again. He’s paradoxically viewed as an otherworldly being without reason or humanity AND viewed as a fully reasonable individual who deliberately made these choices with no nuance.

At no point is he provided the mercy and understanding of either implications, only the worst of both. He is a being that contains multitudes. He’s not a hero but he doesn’t HAVE to be.

Revolution was never pretty and wasn’t always led by these perfect heroes. Victims don’t need to be heroes to deserve basic rights that people of privilege have by default regardless of if they prove their “moral worth”.

White infants were shot in their cribs. They may not have been involved, but how can that matter to people who since infancy have been viewed as criminals, as less than?

It’s not about these individual actions, it’s about them stemming from systematic oppression.

William was a white, upper class child who was not responsible for the acts of his family. But the creature only experienced being viewed as a part of a monolith of the uncanny.

Is it really such a surprise when he similarly sees William as an extension of the oppressive humanity he’s a part of?

Not to mention, the creature was a child too. He was at most six years old. Even regardless of that, it’s the content of the years lived that make someone an adult and not just the time frame itself. The creature learned a lot but he did not have a childhood.

The creature was extremely cognitively intelligent, but he was developmentally stunted mentally. He couldn’t really be expected to use that cognition without guidance.

Similarly, black children are often adultified. They often have to grow up faster than white children, because if they express natural toddler emotions, they’re viewed as violent and threatening. They’re made to walk on eggshells, because if they show too much of any sort of emotion, they’ll be viewed as a threat and risk facing violence. Police officers have shot literal children because they thought they were threatening.

Even now, black children and teens are viewed as uncivilized, unintelligent, inhuman, but once they get into trouble, even just the trouble most teenagers are expected to get into, suddenly they’re “young men” or “young women” who know exactly what they’re doing and should have known better.

That’s not accountability. That’s not acknowledging autonomy.

It’s not proving anything when people you’ve abused into believing they’re inherently violent lash out.

There is a genuine fear of black people from white people. It’s a fear of the unknown, of the unfamiliar.

I hate being annoying and preachy, I know these posts can be, but by any chance it makes any degree of difference then that matters.

I don’t get this idea that there’s a merit to “virtue signaling” in regards to things people actively don’t want to hear about.

People don’t want to hear about factory farming practices or about people (especially women and underage girls) in third world countries or even really the Epstein files anymore because if it’s not popular at the time it’s boring.

And now a lot of the time people only talk about Palestine as an excuse to be antisemitic or anti-Arab or whatever when that’s not the point at all, the point is there’s people facing a genocide.

People don’t even really know about other genocides and displacements like the ones in Sudan, Congo, Tigray, Haiti, Myanmar, Nagorno-Karabakh, China (genocide of Uyghurs), and West Papua.

There’s no glory or heroism. You just have to be annoying because it’s worse to be silent.

Still, I worry that I’ll push people away from issues if I talk too much about them but I also worry I don’t talk enough about them.

I truly don’t want to needlessly inconvenience anyone or make them feel guilty when there’s nothing they can do or they’ve done everything in their power. I don’t want that at all.

I just want things to be better.

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Pigs have an intelligence that parallels dogs.

If you have a dog, imagine your dog’s teeth being pulled and their tail cut without anesthesia.

If you have a dog, imagine your dog put in a crate where they do not even have space to turn around for their entire life, 24 hours a day.

If you have a dog, imagine your dog only being taken out of that crate to give birth and fighting relentlessly not to be taken back to that crate.

If you have a dog, imagine your dog wailing and howling every time you entered the room. Every time any human entered the room.

But most important, REGARDLESS of the intelligence of any animal, what matters in regards to unethical treatment is their capacity to suffer, to feel pain.

The simple fact that cows, pigs, and chickens suffer is enough for us to know that factory farming practices as they stand cannot continue.

If all you can do right now is advocate for better practices in agriculture and spread information, that matters.

If you’re unable to limit animal product intake, you may be able to pursue local farms with more ethical regulations (this can still depend on the farm), buy from farmer’s markets, or buy from/learn rifle hunting.

If none of those are a possibility, just advocate for better and reliably ethical practices to the best of your ability and contact your representatives. Sharing information is crucial, your voice is important.

This is not a guilt trip for the sake of a guilt trip, it’s a call to action for those who are able to act, and you know for yourself if you really can’t.

You also don’t have to feel guilty or hopeless!

This absolutely isn’t the fault of any one person, and not everyone can contribute, at least not in the same way.

The point is it’s a problem, a problem for workers, marginalized communities, the environment, and animal welfare. And it’s getting worse.

Now’s not the time (nor will it ever be) to play the blame game, now’s the time to organize and do what each of us can to our own ability.

If you can’t reduce your animal product intake, try pursuing local farms (it still depends on the farm but generally they have more ethical regulations). If you can’t pursue local farms, try pursuing rifle hunting, whether buying from it or learning it yourself.

If you can’t do any of that, just talk about it and call for more ethical practices in agriculture, it makes a huge difference.

For example, if you live in the U.S., contact your senators to stop the ‘Save Our Bacon’ Act and Food Security and Farm Protection Act

The Save Our Bacon Act H.R.4673 and Food Security and Farm Protection Act S.1326 are 2025-2026 Act that will nullify state AND local regulations on production of agricultural livestock.

That means the efforts such as :

-California Proposition 12 (the law that establishes a minimum square feet based space for veal calves, breeding pigs, and egg laying hens in response to cruel confinement practices)

-Massachusetts Question 3 (a similar law that ensures veal calves, breeding pigs, and egg laying hens have space to stand up, turn around, and spread their wings)

Will be overturned.

These laws are already insufficient in preventing cruel farming practices, but they were a start.

The Trump Administration has already increased the federal kill speed limits, which puts animal welfare, workers, and food safety in danger.

Contact your federal lawmakers to oppose these acts.

Regardless of what you can do, please research factory farming, and advocate for agricultural regulations and against factory farming.

This is factory farming.

Now, I don’t find consumption of meat, dairy, or eggs by itself morally unjustified, but I do find factory farming abysmal and wholly unnecessary.

If non-vegans (specifically those who have the means to) pursue local farms with ethical standards, buy from rifle hunting, hunt their own food, and overall just do what they can to assure the animals they consume and/or extract products from did not suffer, I do not find their consumption of those animal products to be unethical, especially given that most of the animals consumed are prey animals and would otherwise be subject to much worse.

We could eventually delve into pursuing a sort of bio-engineered future where there’s a better alternative where it’s not necessary at all (something like bio-engineered non-sentient meat that can be distributed amongst carnivores and omnivores), but as the world stands currently, there’s not much of an alternative.

Even if you’re someone (which I’m personally not) who finds killing, no matter the circumstance, to be morally unjustified, would you find it bad if someone consumed the body of something that was already dead?

The point is, I think too much of the time the focus is on the animals’ deaths and not enough on their lives.

Factory farmed animals are kept in crates they cannot even turn around in, receiving no stimulation. Many end up crushed by pen mates due to lack of space. Cage-free really just means instead of a metal cage, they’re caged in by a thousand other animals crammed together. They are beaten, branded, electrocuted, subjected to horrors that obviously most non-vegans would be completely against, but they’re unaware of because VEGANS DON’T TALK ABOUT IT. No one does.

Instead of wasting time virtue signaling, rally together to actually make a difference, educate people on the actual problem, find solutions that work for both vegans and non-vegans.

Factory farming is a trillion dollar industry that should not be a foot note in these conversations, or any conversation regarding industrial corruption.

Let’s start looking at solutions for both vegans and non-vegans.

This goes beyond veganism. It relates to environmental racism, environmental degradation, and workers’ rights.

If you’re a non-vegan and are able to do so, you can try buying from/supporting local farms with more ethical practices (of course, this still depends on the farm, so make sure you can verify), buying from rifle hunters who kill their animals painlessly and quickly, or learn to rifle hunt yourself.

But there unequivocally has to be something done, we have to start somewhere. There have been little to no significant political figures who have called for safer agriculture practices.

In fact, in America, the Trump Administration has INCREASED limits on slaughters per minute, leading to an increased risk of improper slaughters and worker injury.

Factory farming is a complete violation of BOTH human rights and animal rights.

Not only for the sake of livestock animals subjected to cruel practices (tail cutting, beak clipping, overcrowding, gestation pens, AI, separation, beatings for muscle retention, branding, improper bolt gun usage, drowning, suffocation, and a plethora of others including those that have not been recorded), but ALSO for workers who are exploited and not remotely given proper safety or dignity in their field, communities surrounding factory farms devastated by miles long cess pools (communities that are largely marginalized and predominated by people of color), and the effect on the environment through fossil fuel emissions and deforestation.

Many of these issues carry over to other productions, including vegetable farming and non-agricultural industries, but that is NOT an excuse to not talk about it at all.

Factory farming is a trillion dollar industry and you can make a difference just by spreading awareness.

People have begun the narrative of “veganism is racist/white supremacist” when in reality the issue isn’t veganism, it’s White Vegans.

White privilege is exhibited the same regardless of whether a white person is vegan or not.

The factory farming industry, and every other trillion dollar industry, has NO interest in protecting people of color (and actually actively exploits them), NO interest in people with disabilities, and NO interest in culture.

The solution to white vegans being racist is NOT to denounce everything they stand for and portray the factory farming industry as anti-racist simply because some racist and ignorant people don’t support it. There’s a lot of things racist people don’t support that aren’t themselves anti-racist.

It’s also telling that it’s predominately white non-vegans saying this.

It’s baffling this is even a problem.

I’ve never seen an instance where LGBTQ White people are racist and people begin portraying conversion therapy as racial diversity.

There’s a difference between correlation and causation in regards to racism being found in certain subsections and in just about every instance the issue is Eurocentric mindsets that exist outside of those subsections and white people being racist.

ADDITIONAL: I’d like to emphasize that being vegan or anti-factory farming does NOT make you marginalized.

Start demanding 24/7 live camera footage inside slaughterhouses. Start demanding comprehensive bans on gestation pens and forced insemination. Start demanding wide open pastures (cage-free is not actually cage-free). Start demanding painless procedures of killing and set strict and decreased limits on kills per minute, absolutely NO rushing for the sake of profit. This is for the sake of not only animals but workers as well, many of whom are immigrants.

This will significantly decrease access to store-bought animal products as it stands, but we cannot accept exploitation of animals and workers for the sake of convenience. It is not worth it for meat and dairy and eggs to be as accessible as they are with the way they are produced. It is not good that we’re used to this.

As for long term, it’s highly unlikely that any system of industrial agriculture can reliably remain ethical, safe to work in, or remotely environmentally friendly. Factory farming needs to be abolished.

You can buy from local farms if they are ensured to have sufficiently ethical procedures, meaning the welfare of the animals are protected throughout their lives and their deaths are painless. If this is not the case, you can learn rifle hunting or buy from hunters.

And yes, all of this can be done whilst also acknowledging issues within mass scale vegetable farms and cosmetics.

It’s also about speaking about what people actively do NOT want to hear.

People don’t want to hear about non-Western impoverished countries being exploited by the West and children being married under the excuse that “it’s their culture” (when that’s such a shallow concept of culture and certainly not the culture of the children forced into marriage).

People don’t want to hear about it factory farming practices and its inhumane treatment of not only the animals but workers (often immigrant workers) or even attempt to pursue local farms with more ethical procedures, or even talk about it.

People didn’t want to hear about Palestine until it became “mainstream”, until after thousands upon thousands of civilian families were brutalized and murdered.

Being an actual activist rarely means being hailed as a hero or revolutionary.

It very often means annoying people.

Nonetheless, people’s inconvenience at having to hear about these issues do not compare to the people who have to know about them because they EXPERIENCE them.

Even if you’re someone who doesn’t or can’t care about these issues, for whatever reasons you may have, it still benefits you to foster a community that does.

Because when you’re down on your luck, do you want people who also don’t care as your only support system, or people who do care. You don’t have to join, just speak up for those who will.

I’m ngl I think Vegans can be a little annoying. In fact I think they can be more annoying.

Like if you watch Dominion and seeing the runt of a pig litter get slammed against the concrete like a wet shirt because that’s the most convenient way to kill them makes you feel A Little Annoyed I think that’s okay. I think that’s a good thing actually.

It’s not supposed to be a personal attack, and if you feel like it is, I don’t know what to tell you. I don’t know what to tell you if you feel personally slighted by people saying factory farming practices are unethical and animals shouldn’t and don’t need to be exposed to those sorts of conditions. It’s not remotely the intention of bringing it up.

The truth is a lot of non-Vegans genuinely don’t know what happens in factory farms, it’s not meant to be a personal attack, it’s just an explanation, you take what you will from it.

And in regards to people who have health complications and need to primarily rely on meat or people who aren’t able to reduce meat/milk consumption due to prices or resources available to them, obviously those situations are understandable. Even then, local farms with more ethical practices can sometimes be an option too (emphasis on sometimes, as they can be more expensive).

There are Vegans in Gaza who are unable to stay Vegan because the genocide has limited resources to an extreme degree. People in these situations should be acknowledged beyond a “gotcha” and a way to justify people who aren’t remotely impoverished contributing to factory farming. I think people can gauge their situations and understand if something applies to them or not.

So I found it more to be about pride, and to be reflective of how a lot of heterosexual relationships revolve around men trying to impress other men with their relationships with women (stick with me on this one).

Any dilemma of trust is between Orpheus and Hades, not Orpheus and Eurydice.

In many adaptations, Orpheus turns around because he fears he’s being tricked by Hades, and that Eurydice isn’t actually following. But even if she’s not following, turning around makes no difference. He’d rather risk leaving his wife than feel belittled or outwitted by (notably) another masculine figure.

And it isn’t even from a malicious or uncaring place either. Orpheus traveled through the Underworld to get to Eurydice, and it was his overflowing devotion and love for her that made Hades decide to let them leave on his condition.

Orpheus is sabotaging himself as well, in yet another example of why the patriarchy harms both sides. He wants to be with Eurydice, but it can’t matter to him, it’s not allowed to matter to him in comparison.

And it’s Eurydice’s entire being on the line. She’s made to walk behind him, an unseen follower at the whims at whatever decision is made.