(10-29-2021 12:21 PM)CrimsonPhantom Wrote:  

Quote:With the World Series in full swing, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) decided it needed to dig for relevance. So they took to their Twitter account and tweeted this gem:

You know the clown that came up with this idea has neither played, nor watched baseball.

From Fox News:

The term “bullpen” has been used in baseball since the sport really took hold around the late 1800s.

In baseball, the bullpen refers to the area beyond the outfield wall where pitchers warm up. Starting pitchers can be seen warming up before games while relievers do their warmups during games as they get ready to substitute for whoever is on the mound.

Now, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) is hoping those around the sport will reconsider using the word “bullpen.” In a release Thursday, PETA said the baseball world should substitute the word “bullpen,” which references the area where bulls are kept for slaughter.

Their suggestion? Arm Barn.

Words are meant to be evocative. Other languages do this so much better, but the English language has a few winners. “fraught,” “loquacious,” and “concise,” are a few that come to mind. There is a visual symbolism that goes with the word, “bullpen.” “Arm Barn,” simply does not cut it.

Seriously.

In terms of how we should relate to the animal world, PETA has been playing language police for a minute, with facepalm-worthy results. Back in January, PETA wanted us to stop being “specieist” and using supremacist and demeaning slurs like “chicken,” “pig,” “snake,” and “rat,” as euphemisms for human moral deficiencies.

Don’t you know you’re hurting that snake’s feelings?! Look! He’s slithering away in shame….

Three years ago, PETA wanted us to stop using verbal “microaggressions,” such as, “kill two birds with one stone,” “bring home the bacon,” and, “beat a dead horse.”

You cannot make this stuff up, but apparently PETA has done it for us.

With gas prices and inflation on the rise, and our supply-chain in crisis, “bringing home the bacon” has taken on new meaning. Those who still can, appreciate being able to do it, even at a greater expense. So, nah, I think people will hang on to these phrases. I doubt the animals really care. Save for my dogs, the other animals I interact with are usually on my plate.

Just sayin’.

PETA trafficking in linguistic gymnastics takes away from the genuinely animal-saving work they do accomplish, and the alarm bells that should be raised, like slamming Dr. Anthony “Mengele” Fauci’s NIH-funded, gain-of-function research that tortured beagles in the name of sCiEnCE.

Get back to releasing animals from laboratories, PETA. Leave baseball alone.

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This is the problem with extremist freaks. They become so single issue that they lose all prospective and can no longer think like a normal person. Changing the name of the bullpen to the arm barn will not save or provide a better life for a single animal because the bullpen has nothing to do bulls or any other animal. Its simply an area that pitchers warm up in. Its like podiatrists wanting to change the name of "football" because it might make people think feet are violent. Normal folks understand changing a football's name will accomplish nothing because normal people know that a "football" is just a oblong ball. Normal people dont actually even think of feet when they say the word football.

(11-01-2021 12:23 AM)Attackcoog Wrote:  

(10-29-2021 12:21 PM)CrimsonPhantom Wrote:  

Quote:With the World Series in full swing, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) decided it needed to dig for relevance. So they took to their Twitter account and tweeted this gem:

You know the clown that came up with this idea has neither played, nor watched baseball.

From Fox News:

The term “bullpen” has been used in baseball since the sport really took hold around the late 1800s.

In baseball, the bullpen refers to the area beyond the outfield wall where pitchers warm up. Starting pitchers can be seen warming up before games while relievers do their warmups during games as they get ready to substitute for whoever is on the mound.

Now, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) is hoping those around the sport will reconsider using the word “bullpen.” In a release Thursday, PETA said the baseball world should substitute the word “bullpen,” which references the area where bulls are kept for slaughter.

Their suggestion? Arm Barn.

Words are meant to be evocative. Other languages do this so much better, but the English language has a few winners. “fraught,” “loquacious,” and “concise,” are a few that come to mind. There is a visual symbolism that goes with the word, “bullpen.” “Arm Barn,” simply does not cut it.

Seriously.

In terms of how we should relate to the animal world, PETA has been playing language police for a minute, with facepalm-worthy results. Back in January, PETA wanted us to stop being “specieist” and using supremacist and demeaning slurs like “chicken,” “pig,” “snake,” and “rat,” as euphemisms for human moral deficiencies.

Don’t you know you’re hurting that snake’s feelings?! Look! He’s slithering away in shame….

Three years ago, PETA wanted us to stop using verbal “microaggressions,” such as, “kill two birds with one stone,” “bring home the bacon,” and, “beat a dead horse.”

You cannot make this stuff up, but apparently PETA has done it for us.

With gas prices and inflation on the rise, and our supply-chain in crisis, “bringing home the bacon” has taken on new meaning. Those who still can, appreciate being able to do it, even at a greater expense. So, nah, I think people will hang on to these phrases. I doubt the animals really care. Save for my dogs, the other animals I interact with are usually on my plate.

Just sayin’.

PETA trafficking in linguistic gymnastics takes away from the genuinely animal-saving work they do accomplish, and the alarm bells that should be raised, like slamming Dr. Anthony “Mengele” Fauci’s NIH-funded, gain-of-function research that tortured beagles in the name of sCiEnCE.

Get back to releasing animals from laboratories, PETA. Leave baseball alone.

Link

This is the problem with extremist freaks. They become so single issue that they lose all prospective and can no longer think like a normal person. Changing the name of the bullpen to the arm barn will not save or provide a better life for a single animal because the bullpen has nothing to do bulls or any other animal. Its simply an area that pitchers warm up in. Its like podiatrists wanting to change the name of "football" because it might make people think feet are violent. Normal folks understand changing a football's name will accomplish nothing because normal people know that a "football" is just a oblong ball. Normal people dont actually even think of feet when they say the word football.

Europeans do. That's why they call American football Hand Egg lol.

But yeah, you're 100% right. They must be dreaming this stuff up to make the news and try to retain some mindshare that they even exist. If that's the case, its a divisive and inauthentic.

I'm not very PC, but this kind of thing gets lumped in with things that real people have concerns with, and it frustrates normal people, and makes people want to write off all language changes as over the top and ridiculous.