TOURISTS...GRRRR.

[drydem]

Alright, how's everybody out there. Time for a bit of a rant, because sarcastibitch posted a news article that pushed one of my buttons.
I get very frustrated by tourists. By a tourist I mean specifically, pagan lesbian vegetarians. Those people in college who adopt an "alternative lifestyle" for a year or so, then go back to being "normal" when they leave college.
Flexitarians are a good example of this. People who claim to be vegetarians but eat meat regularly or occasionally. Don't get me wrong, I'm all for eating a more vegetarian diet, I support that fully, but by claiming to be a vegetarian and then violating the restrictions you are placing on yourself, you are undermining the idea of vegetarianism. By showing people that you can't hold up under the pressure of a commitment, you are feeding the argument that people can't make it as vegetarians.
Now, I don't mind people who sincerely try something and find that for various reasons it doesn't work out for them. Someone who has health issues after trying to be a vegetarian and returns to eating meat is fine. Someone who sincerely looks into Wicca and finds that it doesn't speak to them is fine. I'm cool with that. It's people who come in, get really annoyingly hardcore, accusing people of being lesser members of the alternative community than they are and then leave.
Grr.

Comments

[chilimuffin.livejournal.com]

question, and this is in all seriousness, despite its tongue-in-cheek potential. I don't eat meat. But I do eat fish. I consider myself a vegetarian, but it's not quite true, but it's not quite false depending on the definition of meat you use. So I usually end up telling people I'm a vegetarian who eats fish. Is there a word for that, other than something silly like pescavegetarian (which I would have to explain and would lead me back to my original line)?

[drydem.livejournal.com]

I don't know of a term, though I fit that definition as well. I only eat non-farmed fish personally, but alas, only know pescavegetarian as a term, though I only once heard it used, back in 1994.