I have recently (and by recently I mean the last six months) been looking for a new place to live. I occasionally check the “rooms/shared” section in moments of desperation. It isn’t that I don’t want a roommate I just don’t really like the idea of going to live with a perfect stranger. This aside when I am perusing this section I tend to notice the norm: Single Professional Male seeks quiet clean roommate, Grad Student seeks quiet roommate, Four Females looking for clean roommate, etc.
These are all fine, but occasionally I run upon one of the most ridiculous requests: Vegetarian Roommate Wanted.
Seriously?
Who in the world decides someone that eats meat cannot live with them? Why would such a thing bother anyone? I just don’t see this as a logical request. I would never make such a request, can you imagine the repercussions?
Meat Eater Wanted: Vegetarians Need Not Apply
Craigslist actually has a link to the Fair Housing’s discrimination policy…meat eating is not on there.
To top it off, I just don’t understand why anyone would specifically snub potential roommate candidates. There are a ton of ads for roommates! One of our very own from Dep/Red has been in search of roommate for three months. This isn’t exactly the market to get picky in. Pretty sure these people should get off their high horses and stop discriminating against the meat eaters.
Meat Eater and Proud.
[pic from abbamouse/flickr]
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I wouldn’t reject someone just because they ate meat but if they be cooking stuff that smells gross to me or filling the fridge with things that make me sad, then it’s a no go. Some people are vegetarian for ethical reasons so it would be hard to live with someone who goes against what you believe in. Also, I wouldn’t live with a smoker if they smoked in the house.
Yeah, its the “shared cooking stuff” thing and being skeezed out by prospect of gristley bits in your communal pan. That and once you have stopped the dead thing diet for a while, you can get really ill and crampy if you eat some by mistake.
One would think it would be pretty easy to work around this, but veggies tend to be a militantly dogmatic lot. Thats why I tell very few people that I am (17 years, now). Once it comes out, i see people wince as if I am going to preach at them. I love all you carnivorous bastards, and couldn’t care less what you stuff in your maw. To each his own.
I wouldn’t live with a Latvian though. I mean, could you imagine?
My old roomie used to cook bacon and it filled the entire apartment with the smell, which really grossed me out. We don’t live together anymore.
i could never live with a stranger. the last thing i want to see when i come home is people.
That picture is f’ing scary. I mean, look at her haircut!
Not touchin’ this one… nope….
(goes back to his Harris Teeter veggie sushi plate)
her?
Oh, I guess that is a woman. I totally thought it was the dude from That 70’s Show.
Lu: it’s just like choosing not to live with smokers. You know that they’re going to create an environment which will make you ill, so you can discriminate based on that. I’m not veg but I lived with one on the condition I never cook meat in the house. I accepted my semi-vegetarianism because it was a good living situation otherwise. Vegetarianism is at the level of religion for some people. Certainly you can understand the dealbreaker importance of it in many people’s lives?
1, 2, and 3 nail it. I live with meat eaters. It’s not the end of the world. But yeah, amazingly, I find the smell of bacon unappetizing. And yes, it does bug me that your ham juice is dripping into my cheddar in the deli drawer. But the relative positives of living with good friends makes these into minor inconveniences.
I imagine the Craglisters in-question have some horror story that’s forever turned them off the omnivore crowd.
Um Grapey…did you not see the boobies?
your ham juice is dripping into my cheddar in the deli drawer
ahem….mmm….4-3-2-1…that’s what she said.
@9: Not boobies. Them’s pecs! That’s a guy. Guys who eat meat grow big and strong. You veggie girls just never get to be with a guy like that.
Aint any of you ever been hit on by a tranny before?
NEVER do gender determination via breasticle presence. Look to the adam’s apple children, for it knows all and cannot be changed.
Just look at Anne Coulter.
@11: As a possessor of boobs, I recognize those as boobs. And guys like you don’t get to be with veggie girls like this.
Le snap!
aaah, you are wise tranny sensae.
I think it’s pretty smart for people to mention what’s going to be important to them up front (ie, the thing that could cause them to shiv you in your sleep, like the lamb and veal soup you eat on Saturdays). Imagine if couples had to fill out a roommate description prior to moving in together…
Also. That picture? oh man.
my roommate once came into my bedroom while i was asleep, held a butcher knife to my throat, and took a picture. then he went into his room and IM’d it to me. that was nice to wake up to.
@5 Is that a girl?!!!! I didn’t even realize it! That is scary.
@16 Yea, that made me pull a Tuesday…there is soda all over my desk.
OK, it was water…same difference (except one doesn’t ruin paperwork..thank goodness).
The last time I moved in with people that I didn’t know previously, one turned out to be a raving, toothless crossdresser, and the other died in his room from cirrhosis of the liver after I had resided there for about 3 months.
another roommate took acid continuously for about 3 weeks straight. i pretty much moved in with my girlfriend, and let the apartment become a clown house full of blown glass, puddles of congealed condiments, and barefoot degenerates floating on a sea of beer cans.
“not so much” on the security deposit.
The roommate who drank my beer, without replacing it, is suddenly not looking so bad.
I’m so sorry, parlie. that sounds like the sticky-hippie-parlor-of-putrid-stench. Not a pretty thought.
Seriously LuSid? Seriously?
Yeah sheesh, those vegetarians sure are stoopid!!!
I Once had a vegetarian complain because I cooked her Tofu Scramble in the same pan I used for Bacon. I mean, can you imagine the nerve?? I mean like seriously, OMG, seriously!!!
FWIW, I happen to be a meat eater…
I’m trying to return to vegetarianism, but it’s difficult, with the uber low income and all. I was a veggie for 7 years.
As others have noted, the smell of meat cooking is disgusting to we veggies. It really is a stomach-turning experience. So, a meat-cooking roommate would be a non starter for me.
@23: FWIW you happen to sound like a douchebag
What you may not realize is that most vegetarians or vegans are also communists. They desire to surround themselves with like-minded individuals so that they can all SHARE everything. They all just want one big CO-OP filled with tofu and beans. If someone were to move into their house who were a meat eater, then they sure as hell couldn’t share everything. And also the meat juices would infect their carrots.
um, if anyone needs a roommate, I know someone who also needs a roommate and you needn’t be strangers. you could like, meet each other and what not and then live together. Just saying.
@16 woah. Thorazine? maybe?
@12 Trannies RULE. (obviously)
@23 you obviously had good intent but I have also learned the hard way that it is irresponsible behavior to “cross contaminate”. I am not a Vegetarian myself but I try to think of it like someone that has a food allergy. Like if someone has a shellfish allergy then I wouldnt use something that we cook our shellfish in to make their trout for instance. People that don’t eat meat can actually get sick from using the same cookware.
Vegetarian 35 years here. Serious illness comes from cross contamination. The list of things I avoid in restaurants is long indeed because hidden meat often comes along: most fried foods, for instance, because the oil gets saturated with animal fat. For me the smell of meat cooking is clearly a burning-flesh smell and it is a complete nausea inducer. The rest of my family are omnivores; we have a subset of dedicated veggie only cookware and I often have to leave the house when meat is prepared (a lot of my pick-up gardening gets done that way). Being single and not wanting to be beseiged by such unpleasant and/or dangerous activities in your own home is perfectly reasonable and the fair housing act doesn’t come into play because it isn’t a landlord making the request: it’s the person whose name is already on the lease.
yo shenan – I was trying to sound like a douchebag, so mission accomplished!
I’m a meat eater and I was floored by the absolute ignorance of this post and almost couldn’t believe it was a front page post on cVillain.
@12 belmont yo:
Be careful making judgments based on the adam’s apple my friend:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chondrolaryngoplasty
@27: sharing is caring clarence.
@31:I’m interested in knowing why you think this is an ignorant post.
/feeding the troll?
we would all be a lot better off if we remembered what might be the most important internet rule…DONT FEED THE TROLLS
Parlie, you should make a “rules of the internet” post, seeing as how you are the resident expert (and possible inventor) of the internet itself
@34: in soviet russia, internet invent you.
I think shenanigans is Coconut or maybe they are the same person.
Oh, definitely. I am really a 30 year old European guy. How’d you figure it out?
You just share alot of the negative vibes for always coming down on people for there opinions. Just like when you call out coconut. Go out today and take a look at the beatiful day reflect on something positve.
@37 30 year dude?
well this is not good, not good at all.
@38: What are you talking about?
@40 I believe he is crushed that he has been flirting with a 30 year european
@40 I believe he is crushed that he has been flirting with a 30 year European guy.
deja vu
shenan – well, perhaps I’m not being fair given that I’ve both dated and lived with vegetarians before and have therefore probably become somewhat sensitized to issues like this…but still…
If the tone of this blog had been more along the lines of “heck, you learn something new every day,” I wouldn’t have objected. Instead, it’s condescending and insulting.
As for my calling it ignorant, read it again, starting with the title, “The Craigslist Elite” and the accompanying picture. Lu Sid doesn’t bother to take even a minute to consider the other side and instead resorts to ridicule:
Who in the world decides someone that eats meat cannot live with them? Why would such a thing bother anyone? I just don’t see this as a logical request. I would never make such a request, can you imagine the repercussions?
Even a minute of consideration and I think most folks would come to the common sense realization that it would bother a vegetarian to see meat in their refrigerator or to have to smell it cooking.
I’m not being a troll, though I acknowledge that it would appear that I’m overreacting. I’m not worked up or anything, I just had one of those moments where my conception of cVillain as primarily having a progressive and educated user base crashed into reality.
Again, I’m a
meat eater…
sorry, I sometimes have a problem with premature posting…
If I register, can I edit my posts?
There might a clinical trial available for premature posting…
It’s ok – happens to everyone.
I’m not worked up or anything
Well, I am. Got-damn Latvians.
@44 I think if one is a vegan there is a sense of moral outrage when they smell meat. If it’s murder (to vegans) then it’s the smell of death.
Kind of like smoker/nonsmoker.
Vegans: The other white meat.
@46 what about double posting? Can I get in that trial?
Multiple posting, premature posting… I never knew blogging could be so secksay.
no – ya freak
@44: Your points are valid. I took it differently though, it seemed to me that Lu Sid was being facetious and taking a stand to help stir up dialogue. And if she actually is serious, then maybe we did teach her a little something.
then maybe we did teach her a little something.
I think we all learned a valuable lesson today. It would be better if we all lived in little individual cells, like bees, ate identical government issued MRE’s, and never had access to cutlery or cell phones. And Latvians suck.
Group hug?
@44, Well, to play both sides of this, would vegetarians be offended if you saw a craiglist ad that read:
Seeking Roommate for Sweet Place on the Downtown Mall. Vegetarians Not Allowed.
@ 55
Well I would be offended, but my sickly, protein deficient shell of a body can’t muster up even the smallest amount of umbrage. But if you pass me the bee pollen extract and nutritional yeast, I will see what I can do….
@55 it wouldn’t bother me if they said “must keep kosher”. (which I do not) Really don’t see a problem
Thor – the vegetarians that I know, would not be offended. In fact, I think they’d appreciate the forewarning.
And shenan – if Lu Sid was being facetious, than I win the award for utterly lacking a sense of humor!
and b yo’ – hopefully you’ve learned not make judgments based on the adam’s apple.
I think we’ve learned a lot of valuable lessons today. Namely that adam’s apples are the only fruits which are not vegetarian.
Juice box?
@28 mc: is your friend looking for a place to live, too? i have a friend with a townhouse who’s looking for 2 roommates.
I just found this website and it’s perfect for vegetarians who are upset by living with meat eaters. Good for B-yo too. Linky poo: http://www.grouphugs.us
I used to obsessively read that site. Its like MSG, maybe just one more…
@31 Well, if you are so floored by my ignorance feel free to do some posts yourself. I would just LOVE to comment on them. I am certain they would be just absolutely perfect and so very intellectual…kind of like your comments.
@53 All I was saying is that I was somewhat offended by someone not wanting to live with me because I ate meat. I was trying to stir up some conversation…is that not what this site is about?
Thanks for standing up for me Shen.
@44 To continue on your personal attack of my post (again…make my day, write a post) I wrote this out of frustration. I think I will rent an apartment on my own…and will post NON-VEGETARIAN roommate wanted. You think about this side…that is discrimination period
I have lived and DATED, that is right some guy graced me with his presence even though I ate meat, vegetarians oddly enough they were as understanding about it as I was about their choice not to eat meat. Strange how tolerance works? I am the ignorant one right? Maybe you should have a quick self evaluation before attacking others.
Again, please, oh please, high and mighty opinion, write a post. I mean we clearly need to be graced with your wonderful non-bias intelligence…again, like your comments.
Ya, let’s not get bent out of shape. HOH, pulling the ignorance card on this post wasn’t nice and wasn’t deserved. I think Lu Sid has a right to spark a debate with her post, and that’s what she did.
Now can we hold hands and kiss each other (while holding noses to avoid the meat smell)?
Ok, here’s the point. HOH et al, don’t attack people for asking questions, even if the answer is obvious to you. Educate them instead. Lu Sid, it was a good post because it provoked dialogue. Don’t take it personally that someone thought it was ignorant at first. That IS a freaky ass picture. Now let’s to go eat tater tots, good for veggies and meat eaters alike.
with truffle oil ketchup!
No, seriously. I think we should fight more.
with truffle oil?
that’s what they say. at any rate, it’s damn good.
truffled anything is aloways yum yum.
/just saying
did I do that right?
Is it just me, or is there an unusual number of vegetarian cVillains, statistically speaking?
You would be surprised at the number of veggies in the real world. Its just that a lot of them/us are on the down low, and not spewing foamy dogma from our tendon free maws. Mostly its out of fear of being eaten by the carnivores, though.
/why do people keep eating my brother the vegetable?
i think we need a poll
that’s what she said.
yes?