tabby
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Ol argedco luciftias said:jrvan said:........tabby said:........
Could either of you, or both of you, please do me one favor? Could you please read this message, and understand what I am saying, and maybe answer it if you want? Because I honestly feel like both of you have just been skipping over what I write and not even reading it.
Do you agree that sheeps and rams do not have the same behaviours, they have absolutely different actions and different habits from each other? They live seperately from each other, and live completely different lifestyles. I am talking about in nature, not on a farm where they are all forced into the same little fenced in area.
The rams are all very independent, they live by themselves, they climb to extremely high heights, and they sometimes fight each other.
And sheep basically just sit in a field or a valley eating grass and they do not seem to do much of anything most of the time. I am not saying there is anything wrong with this, but that's what they do.
If you did not know that these were the same species and you were to judge them only by their actions and lifestyles, they act so differently from each other that it could almost seem like they are 2 different seperate animals.
My entire point is that the common symbolic ideas about these animals is directly related to the actions and lifestyle of the animal. And that the qualities they are symbolic of are the exact same qualities of what these animals actually do every day.
And correct me if I am wrong, but it looks like both of you are continuously ignoring all of these things. You are ignoring all of the differences between their lifestyles, and you are ignoring how their lifestyles align with and agree exactly with their symbols. And you end up basically just saying that rams are a good symbol only because they are men and only men get to be a good symbol, and sheep are sometimes a bad symbol only because they are women and all women must be a bad symbol because everything is sexist so the sexist evil men have to always make the woman be a bad symbol.
Could you see why this confuses me? It just looks like nonsense to me, and looks like it has no connection to reality. Actually it is both of you who are being sexist by acting like the only thing that matters is which sex they are.
"Judge not by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character."
This is what I am doing, but with sex instead of color. And it seems like both of you only judge by which sex they are, and pay zero attention to their actual character.
Addressing the part I bolded: I ask the same of you in turn before you continue to slander me for something I am not doing. If you had properly read and understood my previous comments to you (all of them), then you would understand that this ->
-> is actually putting words in my mouth which are false.And you end up basically just saying that rams are a good symbol only because they are men and only men get to be a good symbol, and sheep are sometimes a bad symbol only because they are women and all women must be a bad symbol because everything is sexist so the sexist evil men have to always make the woman be a bad symbol.
I’ll refer you back to this comment of mine:
tabby said:...
We get told rams are sacred but continue to bash on its other name: sheep.
If this hate on sheep was only to do with following bad leaders/shepherds blindly we would hate rams too but we don’t. If this was only about sheep being stupid, then that would be quickly fixed through learning more about the animal and how intelligent it actually is, not just the rams. If this was only about domestic animals, we would hate on all domestic animals. If this was only about sexism we would actively in written words say “the ewes are dumb, the ram is mighty!” but instead we use ‘sheep’ and ‘ram’.
The hate has nothing to do with anything other than the fact the word sheep, not even the animal at this point, became a negative word that is associated with xtianity.
My point of concern on the side of gender is that because of this distinction we make between rams (mighty, intelligent, war, sacred animal of Satan) and sheep (stupid, dumb, blind, animal of xtards), is that this could end up creating an accidentally sexist view of this animal because a ram is a sheep.
The moment you switch out the word ‘ram’ for the word ‘sheep’ no one likes you for it, despite it being the same animal. It’s the word - not the metaphors, not the animal itself - and its negative association to xtards that cause us to hate it so much and spit on it.
So why do we continue to hate this creature? It is senseless to continue to do so because now we can’t even treat this animal with the same levels of respect and care that we do other animals, all thanks to this hang up over the word ‘sheep’.
I agree they are different. They have different biological instincts that drive them to have different behaviours. However. What I don’t agree with is the idea that sheep are stupider than their male counterparts simply for not being rams and behaving like rams. I do not agree with thinking lowly of sheep just because of their association to negative things like stupidity and xtianity.
Wild bighorn sheep males will flock for most of the year with a herd of males until mating season. But this is not always the strict case and some males will stay with the ewe herds. The ewes constantly move to protect their young, and the fact that they do not require the rams to be with their flocks for all parts of the year, means they are strong enough to fend for themselves. That is not a stupid animal.
It doesn’t take much to do a few searches on the internet and see that female bighorn sheep climb upon the same ledges and cliffs the males do. So your facts here don’t match up.
I am not ignoring your points. I’m correcting them with facts that can very easily be observed if you spent time around these animals.
Regarding the following photos, remember I said the ewes have smaller horns and the rams have the bigger ones. You can see quite clearly, the ewes up on the mountain in the last couple photos with males. One photo shows a whole herd of rams running together. Another showing rams and ewes flocking together in a field.
Can you understand now that your observation of even these wild animals is wrong? Am I so sexist for pointing out that flaw?
Regarding your point in another comment “male lions sleep all day, the females go and hunt” - have you forgotten the simple fact that even animals in the Animal Kingdom are individuals with personalities and different experiences just as humans have different personalities and experiences? If the male is so useless why is he the leader of the pride, and why doesn’t the females just take over?
I think it’s time to take off the bias shades about animals, and instead of seeing what you want to see regarding animals, actually understand them beyond their metaphors and common ideas placed on them. You managed to do that for rats. Apply that to all animals.
You see a herd of dumb sheep running around in circles.
I see scared animals, confused and cornered between a car, a rock fence, a building and people, doing only what nature tells them in their instincts to do to get out of a bad situation. Follow their herd.
You see a lazy male lion doing nothing whilst the females go and hunt.
I see a male lion taking a rest. Let me show you something : https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hn-RgtC8dzs https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3f_lQIPaAEE
Sometimes the females hunt. Sometimes the male does instead. Your view of nature does not reflect what is actually happening out there. You have no clue what goes on in these animals minds, and you look down on the ones who don’t seem as strong as the others.
Male, female, big, small, clawed, horned - it doesn’t matter. Give the same respect to both even if you think one over the other is stupid.