Is this really fair? I'm sure they might have gotten quite a bit more upset if Britton had been dressing and skinning a Longshoreman.
>Whenever I show _Roger & Me_ to students, most of them get shocked by the
>sight of Rhonda Britton butchering a rabbit on camera. Some of them think
>that she is out of her mind, since on screen she looks cheerfully
>matter-of-fact while skinning & gutting the rabbit. And they aren't even
>vegetarians! The same students who get disgusted by the graphic
>demonstration of how to dress a rabbit, however, don't necessarily show the
>same degree of sympathy toward, much less solidarity with, laid-off
>workers. There's something wrong here. In America, sympathy toward
>animals is more highly developed than sympathy toward human beings.
>
>Yoshie
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