#also realizing we were supposed to read the breaking in scene as gross and immoral in the class bc its the only scene we actually read | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

perenlop · 11 months ago

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thinking about the animal literature class i took last spring that was pushed as a class all around symbolism but it ended up being an ARA focus and my professor and i were talking about my black beauty paper and she said something like “you dont think of all the ways the author is actually promoting animal harm though… like why doesnt she criticize the use of carriage horses at all? does she think its ethical for animals to work for humans instead of alternative means?”

well besides the obvious bullshit there… THIS BOOK TAKES PLACE IN THE 1800s!!!!!! THERE WERE NO CARS!!!

#fuck you black beauty author why didnt you predict henry ford you dumb bitch. CLEARLY you actually hate horses!#like. tbf she couldve been nitpicking bc she was very nitpicky in class on a lot of stuff #but like it lives in my brain. the book was published 10 years before the car wtf is she supposed to do #i didnt even care for the book im just bewildered????#also realizing we were supposed to read the breaking in scene as gross and immoral in the class bc its the only scene we actually read #before we moved on to other book samples. bc btw we only read two full books in that class.#one of them was charlottes web.#we mostly read really short samples and articles besides that.#echoed voice #i was kinda joking like ‘’oh boy wonder what she thinks of service dogs’’ and then i learned ara’s hate service dogs #so. damn ok

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