From soy milk’s heyday in the 1990s to the rise of oat milk amid the content vortex of the late 2010s, alternative milks have long been queer-coded choices.
Huh what? And here I thought I was going to see some data. But no.
Source?
I talked to a bunch of queer people
This is junk.
I hope everyone here who drinks oat or almond milk realizes how marked up those milks are and figures out that purchasing those nuts or oats in bulk, and then just making your own alt milk, is way cheaper and actually really easy to do.
Chances are, if your $9 before-tip beverage is iced and concocted with an alternative milk, you’re some semblance of queer.
WTF? How is this shit upvoted? Being sexist or racist for fun is not funny.
I suppose being not the Onion is fitting, but still…I like this one:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lumumba_(drink)Not just that, but they even get the sexism and racism wrong. It’s suburban, middle-class, straight white women who are supposed to be associated with $9 lattes.
this a queer-as-in-LGBTQ+ magazine man
I’m not entirely sure that makes it OK.
That’s kind of like saying a black slave owner would be OK when the white aren’t.Their audience is gay folk, them making a joke that might upset a straight person isn’t a problem for them. I would totally call this within the limits of what should be accepted as innocent humor.
To be honest, i feel rejected as a gay person, not because of your comment directly but by all the upvotes your comment got and all the downvotes this post got. Not saying that’s your fault becausr it is me taken something personal where i shouldn’t, but can’t really help it as it comes from leftover trauma caused by all the actually hurtful jokes of queer people i’ve encountered in my life.
i think it’s more like saying a black person can use the Hard R
Not saying you can’t be offended, but they don’t mean ‘you’re some semblance of queer’ in a negative or hurtful way. I read it as ‘queer people are different to the norm, so are people who prefer plant-based milk’. I read their stuff regularly and to me they’ve never come across as sexist or rapist.
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Yeah they’re a super queer friendly publication so it was definitely a tongue in cheek comment. I can see why outside of that context (and in the context of our current awful fucking world) it would be seen differently though.
US-American subsidies and food culture politics are so deranged that expensive animal lactation is cheaper to the consumer than simple plant extracts.
@5714@lemmy.dbzer0.com @hellfire103@lemmy.ca It’s not just USA. I’m Brazilian and non-cow dairy/milk is more expensive than cow dairy/milk. I don’t know the current prices (it’s been a while since I went to a supermarket) but 1 liter of cow milk was something around BRL 3.50 (consider 1 BRL = 5.50 USD) while the same amount of oat milk costs more than BRL 10.00. Soy milk is slightly “cheaper”, costing around BRL 6.00 if I recall correctly. It’s worth mentioning that they’re are produced nationally.
Funny enough I started drinking oat milk to save money. I don’t go through milk very fast, so it often ended up spoiling. Oat milk has a longer shelf life, so I actually use up what I buy.
