Meat Puppets

[superbadgirl]

Does anyone else find Hillshire Farm's "Go Meat!" ad campaign both weird and gross? I swear they're trying to recruit people to eat meat...and while I'm not a vegetarian, I'm finding the ads are having the complete opposite effect on me. Namely, I want to avoid animal flesh of any kind for fear some off-camera cheerleaders will start chanting "Go Meat!" at me.

Maybe it's just me. I am naturally squicky about meat anyway.

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[aizjanika.livejournal.com]

I haven't seen those ads, but I have to admit that I react similarly. I cannot stand The Fly Lady, because her first edict is something how you *have* to wear your shoes at home.

I always wear shoes. Where I come from, you do not take your shoes off at the front door unless they're thoroughly caked with mud. In fact, it's a *thing* with me. I do *not* like at all going to someone else's house and being expected to take off my shoes. I have some problems with my feet and usually have special inserts in my shoes, and always buy shoes for support and comfort above all. I don't ever, ever, ever walk around my own house (or anywhere) without shoes (other than getting in the shower or something like that). Plus I don't like to get holes in my socks and I really do not like going barefoot.

But the fly lady? I read her stuff and I'm ready to declare that I'll never wear shoes again! It's her tone and attitude that makes me feel defiant. *g* I'm such a brat.

If I weren't already vegetarian, I'd probably feel the same way about these meat ads. *g* I do not like being told what to do. *g*

[superbadgirl]

Well, they're not saying you have to eat meat. They're just encouraging it highly.

And where I come from, it's pretty rude to not take your shoes off (or at least ask what the custom of the household is, and follow that custom). Most in my family, when going places, either brings slippers with them, or a set of "indoor shoes." *shrugs*

[aizjanika.livejournal.com]

Oh, yeah, I realize that my comparison didn't work exactly. It did in my mind when I was thinking it, anyway. *g*

I do react similarly to the "Rah! Rah!" anything kind of thing, too, though. I still feel like it's someone trying to manipulate me or trying to get me to think or do something, and I tend to react negatively to that, even if it's something I like.

As for the shoe thing: I had never even heard of taking your shoes off when you go into someone's house until I was an adult. I had never even encountered that before, anywhere. None of my friends' parents, no relatives--nobody did that. We took off our shoes to go swimming or when bathing or when walking around outside (if we didn't get caught).

I think it's pretty rude to expect guests to walk around in stocking feet! *g*

For most of my life, I've only ever had one pair of shoes at a time. Just in the last year I bought an extra pair, though, because the foot doctor told me not to wear the same pair everyday, so I alternate them now, but I wear them everywhere I go for that day. There's no way I'd go out and buy yet *more* shoes and then change my shoes every time I go in and out of the house. *g*

I know it's just custom/culture/whatever, but I don't like it. The foot doctor says never to walk around without shoes, but even without that advice, I don't like going without my shoes because my feet hurt without them.

I always take off my shoes off when going to someone's house if it looks like everyone is doing that, but I always feel ridiculous at some semi-formal party at someone's house (like a party at a superior officer's house) standing around with no shoes--or at a Christmas party or whatever, even if everyone else is in stocking feet. If I knew ahead of time I'd have to take off my shoes, I'd rather not go at all. I wish people would warn for this ahead of time. *g*

I don't mean you personally, but I've always wondered, in a no-shoes-in-the-house household, if you were carrying in groceries, would you take off your shoes and then put them on again for every trip back to the car? Or if you were carrying in heavy furniture, would you stop and take your shoes off before coming into the house? It just seems like a whole lot of trouble and inconvenience just to avoid a little vacuuming. It's a little like keeping plastic over your sofa or never, ever sitting in your living room to avoid dirt & wear. What's the purpose of having it if you're not going to use it? I feel the same about the floor. *g* A floor is meant to be walked on.

Then again, I can't seem to get anyone in my family to see the importance of using plates, so my house needs vacuuming everyday anyway--not that I actually do it. *g*

[superbadgirl]

Well, there are ways around it. Like...politely ask your host to keep your shoes on because of specific conditions. Problem solved. No reason for anyone to get worked up about it. Or, you know, own more than one pair of shoes. ;)

You know I only shop for one, so I DO take my shoes off and leave them on the mat by the door when I get inside. When I was little and my mother bought for an army, we would lug the groceries to the door, set them just inside and make return trips back and forth from the car. Either someone inside would take them to the kitchen/pantry, or they'd sit there until everything was inside, and then we'd take off our shoes and carry them the rest of the way. Tada.

Long story short, it's not really an issue either way. Or at least it doesn't have to be. Now, if you're visiting someone who's truly anal or was stupid enough to buy white carpet...

[betacandy.livejournal.com]

I haven't seen it, but I'm so turned off to any meat but fish lately, I'm sure I'd react the same way.

Meat is squicky when you think about it.

[superbadgirl]

Yeah. I have a vegetarial coworker who thinks my hesitation to eat meat is like his - a moral decision. It's not. It just grosses me out sometimes. Heh.

[superbadgirl]

LOL, vegetarial??! I meant, of course, vegetarian.