Do you know why some dogs in
shelters end up perishing? Simple neglect? The sad status of being unwanted?
Global warming?
Nope. According to Katja
Guenther, a professor of gender and sexuality studies at the University of
California-Riverside, these canine deaths are due to “capitalism, anthroparchy,
white
supremacy and patriarchy.” Of course.
Guenther says, for example, that people of color who abandon
their dogs are likely victims “ensnared in the legal system,” forced to
leave their animals behind “under the duress of sudden eviction or deportation
or arrest.” She even claims that such people believe what they are doing is for
the best, because of “the constraints of their knowledge and resources, both of
which are limited by the nexus of their class, status as immigrants, and
ethnicity.”
Incredibly,
Guenther avers that if, say, a Latino man on a bicycle happens to drop a dog “while
escaping from mall security officers … after stealing a pair of Wrangler jeans,”
it is simply the result of his “status as marginalized.” Moreover, should a
woman leave her dog to die at the pound after she has finished breeding her and
selling her puppies to buy drugs, it is probably the fault of her “status as a
poorly educated queer woman of color.” Wow.
Yet, in her book, “The Lives and Deaths of Shelter Animals,”
Guenther avers that allowing your dog to sleep inside your house is actually a
manifestation of white privilege. She wants Fido to be locked
outside when it’s twenty-below-zero or during violent storms? Doesn’t sound
very tolerant and inclusive.
She says statutes
which forbid the chaining or leaving of dogs outside are “intended to oppress
people of color by imposing middle-class norms of animal keeping in which
companion animals are considered family and treated accordingly.” Bringing your
dog inside oppresses people of color?
Yes. You see, Guenther explains, people of color “are
themselves trapped in poverty” and “may have few options for legitimate income
generation and possibly rely on their dogs for … status.” I have no idea what
the hell that’s supposed to mean. And, in saying that, Katja just treated people of color
like she apparently thinks they treat their dogs.
Katja wasn’t done dogging white people, however. She
also accused Caucasians who volunteer in dog shelters of working to
“reinscribe hierarchies of power and status within the shelter” to the
detriment of non-white workers, thus maintaining “existing social inequalities
between humans even as they seek to help animals.” Reinscribe hierarchies of
power and status within a dog shelter? Moreover, she disapproved of a
rescuer lamenting the condition of a dog “with sagging belly skin, elongated
nipples, and enlarged genitalia” due to its former owners having confined the
dog solely to the outdoors, calling the reaction typical of “white rescuers.” This begs the age-old question:
“WTH?” Is Katja perhaps projecting, as leftists are wont to do, when she
talks about “sagging belly skin, elongated nipples, and enlarged genitalia?”
I, for one, don’t want to know.
At least Guenther admits “It is not possible for me to be impartial,” even
while noting,
“I was trained in sociology, a discipline that
emphasizes impartiality and the need to systematize observations and analysis
in ways that distance the researcher from the researched.” She added, “I
deliberately turn away from these tendencies and instead embrace the messy
possibilities of being a researcher with complex ties to the social setting I
am analyzing.” Quite.
According to her website, Guenther-- who holds a PhD
in sociology-- works “within interdisciplinary feminist and critical
frameworks.” She notes that her book is “a feminist analysis of how rescuers of
companion and free-roaming (aka ‘wild’ animals) represent and negotiate their
relationships and relations of care with disabled animals.” (Insert foghorn
blasts here.)
According to The College Fix, Guenther has been
published in the journals Ethnic & Racial Studies, Gender & Society, Politics & Gender and Social Problems. (If you subscribe
to Ethnic
& Racial Studies and Gender & Society, you can get
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“The Lives and Deaths of
Shelter Animals” has received praise from
such luminaries as Carol Adams, author of “The Sexual
Politics of Meat,” a book which she wrote to
argue that society’s fondness for eating meat is a reflection of its misogyny.
(Insert your own joke here.)
What books are
forthcoming from radical feminist/leftist nut-bags? “The Sexual Politics
of Navel Lint?” “Astronomy: The Misogynistic Science?” “The White Privilege of
Flush Toilets?”
If caring for my dog
is a form of white privilege, I don’t want to be woke. And, if eating meat is a
nod of approval towards masculinity, I’m down with that.
Crazed leftists
believe that literally everything is proof of white privilege, misogyny, homophobia,
transphobia, and global warming. But they are just baying at the moon, unwilling
to look inside themselves to find the seeds of their rage and despair, in a
society gone to the dogs.
Personally, I’d
share my home with a dog…and keep the rabid leftists chained up outside.
