Are strict vegetarians less socially acceptable than flexitarian vegetarians?

Question

As a point of information ... The American Dialectic Society "dedicated to the study of the English language in North America, and of other languages, or dialects of other languages, influencing it or influenced by it." in 2003 named the "Word of the Year" to be "flexitarian" Even a Yahoo search of the web yielded over 50,000 hits on "flexitarian:; 78,000 on Google. So it's "in the language".

I've also relieved a number of you of your need to consistently to neither respectfully, nor intelligently answer, nor critically READ the few questions I post, by blocking you.

Answer 1

What do you mean by "Socially Acceptable"?
Fit in better? More hidden?

In my world we are individuals. So what ever persuasion a person is is Good as long as it is not immoral & hurtful to others.
LOL..or maybe I am just too idealistic.

Slainté (to your health)

Answer 2

I think some are and for good reason. But others, no. I do find flexitarian vegetarians more accepting of diverse positions. Many I know were "strict" veggies, but then changed because their lifestyle changed or they became more aware of the world about them.

I know just a few "strict" vegetarians and strict vegans, and they are pretty OK ... not preachy. But they also are pretty sophisticated about the world around them and not isolated and have a lot of accomplishments in their life. They also have a lot of money so it makes it easier to be "strict" whatever. It takes a bundle of money to keep a strict lifestyle that isn't lived liked a Luddite.

Answer 3

Keep blocking people. It relieves them of having to read your idiotic questions and responses. How mature of you. You and all your multiple identities. You have no life, all you and your troll buddies do is spend time in these forums, harassing people. What's worst is that you might not even realize what a pile of s h i t you are. If you ever said some of the things you say online to people in person I would punch you in the f u c k i n g face. You and your fellow trolls are the only people I have seen on V&V with a holier-than-thou, I-am-right-everyone-is-wrong attitude.

I think you must have something really wrong with you to be so against vegetarians and vegans. Maybe your daddy was a vegetarian and he touched you in bad places? Maybe you had fallen for a vegan and they dumped your miserable, have-no-life a s s? All you do is sit around on Answers and contemplate how to make other people miserable.

Poor little you. Go to f u c k i n g hell.

Answer 4

WELL ... if I had to answer this question based on "Hate You's" answer, I'd certainly say the reason is quite self-evident, wouldn't you?

However, I don't know know that strict vegetarians are less socially acceptable in all social circles. I travel almost non-stop and encounter many strict vegetarians in cultures other than my own. I notice NO difference re: social acceptability.

However, when I am in my native milieu ... UK, the Continent, or the States, I find strict vegetarians and vegans really obnoxious for the most part. Not ALL, but many. It really is quite odd and I don't understand it.

Answer 5

I've never been "unaccepted" socially and I've been a true vegetarian for 21 years. My (now ex-) husband admitted a couple of months into our relationship that he almost thought twice about asking me out because he didn't know any vegetarians and thought I might be weird. He also admitted that he was silly for making an assumption like that. I haven't gotten any weirdness socially even since I became vegan. But then again, I've spent my life mainly in open-minded, liberal cities where people are pretty accepting of all sorts. Nobody in Seattle thinks veg*nism is weird or socially unacceptable.

Answer 6

You do know that flexitarian vegetarian is an utterly inaccurate term, don't you? It's an oxymoron like "military intelligence" or "Supreme Court Justice." Some troll called himself that and would push meat eating on people who asked questions in the V&V section--and was pretty obnoxious about it, I might add. Well, you cannot be both flexitarian and vegetarian.

I might also add that flexitarian is a made-up term to describe people who are eating less meat but haven't yet made the commitment to veg*anism. It's annoying, yes, but not that annoying as people who eat meat calling themselves vegetarian. or semi-veg or whatever.

And people call *us*pushy. Sheesh

Answer 7

Flexitarians are omnivores. Why would you follow "flexitarian" with "vegetarian"? The -tarian part is already included in flexitarian.

I don't care if flexitarians want to call themselves flexitarians. They're levels of omnivores, not vegetarians, though. Vegetarians don't eat meat.

Oh, and I never have a problem being accepted. I don't do things to be accepted. I'm not that insecure.

I am flattered that you guys want so badly to be part of the club that you fake it, though. It's cute.

Answer 8

I see absolutely no reason why there should be any connection between the two in the first place . When a healthy life style or diet becomes an issue for society to
feed upon then i'd just as soon become a recluse.

Answer 9

Its not a case of them being a vegetarian or a flexitarian, its a case of how much they nag you about it.

It may well be USA yahoo but www.yahoo.com is the place most people log into, or use the find all English questions. If you don't like the way other people define words outside your countries usage, then its though luck on you.

Answer 10

By saying to another member "If you ever said some of the things you say online to people in person I would punch you in the f u c k i n g face" --"Hate You" shows he is a violent person and indicative of the repressed anger thatt strict vegetarians have for others.

It is their propensity for this kind of violent outbursts that makes it desirable to avoid them.

I'm a flexitariian and I would NEVER say something like this to another human being.

Answer 11

Of course they are. Since there is no such thing as a flexitarian vegetarian in America they end up being a part of the large omnivore group. So, being 97% of the population, flexitarians and other omnivores are obviously the social norm.

What is socially unacceptable in America is meat eaters claiming to be vegetarians. The vegetarian society, who coined the term, is the only entity that can decide what a vegetarian is. When they accept meat eaters as vegetarians so shall the vegetarians. But guess what? Ain't gonna happen.

In America (and this IS the American YA forum), eating any animal flesh disqualifies a person from vegetarian status regardless of what you or your ilk wishes to pretend.