It’s not unneeded. A lot of people don’t understand what declawing actually is or haven’t put thought into the harm it causes. They just think it’s a harmless way to protect their furniture.
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ShellMonkey@piefed.socdojo.com 6 hours agoOn a whole I don’t support any sort of unnecessary bodily modification, declawing, tail bobbing, circumcisions, or whatever.
What bothers me is when people find it necessary to interject some unneeded drivel because of some passing word that’s a perfectly well accepted term.
lightnsfw@reddthat.com 3 hours ago
Chicxulub@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
You think a lot of people on Lemmy don’t understand that declawing harms cats?
lightnsfw@reddthat.com 2 hours ago
I don’t know what everyone on lemmy knows or not.
ShellMonkey@piefed.socdojo.com 2 hours ago
If one wants to be an ‘aktually’ arse then take note that ‘declawing’ is actually a much more precise term than ‘mutilation of extremities’ which could perfectly well mean putting their tail in a wood chipper and be technically correct
Chicxulub@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Really? You have no grasp on the general demographic and ideological leaning of this platform and how that might be an indicator?
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 2 hours ago
You literally just contradicted yourself in two sentences.
You claim you don’t support inhumane practices, but then you call it “unnecessary drivel” when someone speaks out against them? And then you try to normalize those inhumane practices as simply “perfectly well accepted terms”?
They’re not just words, those words have meanings, and the meaning of this one is atrocious.
Chicxulub@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Ok, but no one said anything about declawing their cat. No one suggested that declawing cats wasn’t harmful to them. What exactly is the point of getting pissy with someone for using the correct term for a thing?
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 29 minutes ago
The top-level comment literally said “because the cat isn’t declawed” not “because cats have claws.”
It subtly insinuates that cats being declawed is the norm and that cats with claws are a deviation from that norm, when the reality is that cats with claws are the norm and that not only are declawed cats a deviation from the norm, but it’s also harmful and atrocious to force that deviation upon them.
It was an attempt to normalize the mutilation of pets, and the next person’s response was completely appropriate and called for.
athatet@lemmy.zip 52 minutes ago
It is the currently used term, perhaps but it’s certainly not the correct one.
explodicle@sh.itjust.works 1 hour ago
If it’s a euphemism then it’s not the correct term; mutilation is correct.