Comments on: Men Like Sports II

By: Sean Odowd

Sean Odowd — Mon, 03 May 2010 19:50:52 +0000

I have been able to work with weights now that I am in high school, and I want to learn which vitamins and minerals to take. I want to take only natural things and stay away from anything like steriods. No way am I gonna mess myself up. Anybody have any advice?

By: LeahB.

LeahB. — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 21:53:42 +0000

It’s funny how the idea that in order to be “tough” you have to eat meat is still a popular idea. In my younger, gothicker days my parents were shocked that my punk rock friends were not only housebroken, but almost always vegetarian or vegan; as if having tattoos is diametrically opposed to (or mutually exclusive from) being a vegetarian. This can’t be farther from the truth — I myself became a vegetarian probably at the time I looked the creepiest; I was influenced by the fact that people who I thought truly had interesting and revolutionary ideas were generally into questioning the status quo and challenging social norms (ex. Joan Jett, Propoghandi, the Cro-Mags). My current boyfriend had a relentless habit of mocking my food choices as “hippie fare”, but I set him straight with a copy of Meat Is Murder by the Smiths (the infinitely superior precursor to all the indie/emo stuff) and The Evolution of a Cro-Magnon by John Joseph (a trippy book of one of the founders of NY hardcore music scene). More proof that any person who cares about their health and the welfare of animals makes the right choice!

By: ‘Carnivore’ Pride « The Discerning Brute

‘Carnivore’ Pride « The Discerning Brute — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 21:34:22 +0000

[...] It certainly is more about the identity of being a man than anything else. As I pointed out in my recent letter to the New York Times, the limited, suffocating identity of manhood in this culture is inseparably tied to attaining and consuming meat. Thus abandoning meat-eating is abandoning manhood and pride itself. For more on this, read Total recall, and Men Like Sports & Men Like Sports II. [...]