Environment Issues Intro: “Two kinds of flesh are served"

Through out history men have always played the role of the hunter, provider, and protector. While a women purpose is to fill in the roll of what ever the men were not nurturer, and submissive always inferior to man. Freud once said that all women have penis envy desiring the power and dominance that comes with it. These social constructions have been around for thousands of years, power lying with the elite white heterosexual male who once again controls the master story. “We know meat-eating races have been and are leaders in the progress made by mankind in its upward struggle through the ages”(Adams) Meat has always been linked with the higher class, only those with most importance could eat it giving way to intersectionality. The idea of patriarchy comes in to play with these individuals because they actually see themselves as different and better than everyone else, because of this makes it easier for reductionism and objectification to happen. “The hierarchy of meat protein reinforces a hierarchy of race, class, and sex.”(Adams) Having the mind set of excluding ones self of being other can lead to abuse along with cruelty reason being the “other” is deviant had isn’t worth of ones emotions. Within the Robert’s Steakhouse/ Penthouse Executive Club “Two kinds of flesh are served" (Bruni) . This glorified strip club is prime examples of how men are subject the controller and the market for this type of entertainment. Here not only animals are severed but also women combining two lower classes to be used, they have always been objects within history abused many times over with the use of reductionism of their strengths in short Hegemonic Centrism. In the elite white heterosexual male perspective the “others” point of view isn’t taking in to consideration manly with objectifying woman with their clothes and how they are told to act. Even the author of the article had an aura of superiority simply with how he described the women working in the club. “With a job like this one the learning curve is endless, and it takes you in directions you never expected to go. “(BRUNI) He even began to use adjectives that are no different than taking about a woman to describe how he felt when eating his dinner. “But no matter what your appetite for the saucy spectacle accessorizing these steaks, you’ll be turned on by the quality of the plated meat”. “(BRUNI) The dreaded male gaze most like it rampant and slightly encouraged within this establishment, consuming a prize worthy or better yet king sized portions of meat while looking at women body’s, (absent referent) not really caring about the person or her life but seemly what is there at face value. On the other in of the spectrum wall street employee Ryan Pacifico who just so happen to be a vegetarian was constantly bullied “for being a vegetarian homo," (Catalanello) One would think that some progress has been made within the twenty-first century as far as stereotypes go. Wall street is a fast paced boys club, not only is it difficult for minority and woman to get in but to prove that they are just as good if not better than their colleagues. With so much testosterone around dominance and power must always come in to play. “Meat was a valuable economic commodity, those who controlled this commodity achieved power”(Adam) So it is not surprising that within a society of elite men with loads of money still have the same mind set of meat being the only way to convey male dominance. Unable to see that deviating isn’t less powerful, "It's a ridiculous male stereotype that only real men eat meat." Rick Ostrove The only way to break the cycle of uncaring homogenization, is to take everyone and thing as its own entity having importance and intrinsic value or instrumentalization. One question to dwell on is the utilitarianism perspective of degrading women in the name of good business and persuasion okay if it suppose to make the life's of others better?