How appropriate is the term “flame war” in reference to a post about figure skater Johnny Weir?
Johnny, who likes to wear flashy lil’ outfits with pretty sparkles, is under fire for unapologetically adorning his princess get-up with real fox fur:
“I totally get the dirtiness of the fur industry and how terrible it is to animals. But it’s not something that’s the No. 1 priority in my life,” Weir said on Tuesday. “There are humans dying everyday. There are thousands if not millions of homeless people in New York City. Look at what just happened in Haiti.”
“I tend to focus my energy, if there is a cause, on humans. While that may be callous and bad of me, it’s my choice.”
And thus kicked off the most contentious comment thread I’ve ever read on any blog, ever. You can go spend an hour there and not make a dent.
Here’s the most logical comment I can find:
Using fox and cow isn’t the same at all. People only kill foxes for their fur, and people want their fur for purely aesthetic reasons. Little to no people actually eat fox, so its life is wasted on fashion–an aspect of life that just doesn’t matter. However, many parts of the cow are useful to us, various parts of it is food, even the tongue, and cow fat is an ingredient in glue, the lining in their lungs and intestines are medically useful for thinning blood, their skin for clothing, the list could go on and on. Cows are a victim of our necessities, but foxes, no. Quit supporting the killing of foxes in the name of your ugly costumes. “Avant-garde” my ass.
Here’s the least:
what a disgusting homo ,I hope somebody electrocutes his ass.
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