dog behavior is a word that means giving human characteristics to animals.
dog behavior is a word that means giving human characteristics to animals.
word that means giving human characteristics to animals?
dog behavior
halberstam then speaks of how humans project our worlds onto animals. he explains the term of human exceptionalism, which he defines in two ways: humans thinking they are more superior, and unique to other animals and humans using cruel forms of anthropomorphism. he most speaks about anthropomorphism, which is the attribution of human characteristics to an animal. he speaks of a "new york times" "modern love" article in which the author begins training her husband with the same techniques she saw the trainer in sea world using on shamu the killer whale. halberstam first knocks how committed this shows humans are to failing structures, like marriage, that we think we ourselves are failing and must try different things. he then goes on to explain how drawing on animal behavior makes humans feel heterosexuality is more natural or primal. she imposes her boring domestic lifestyle on the life of this exotic animal, which is anthropomorphism, just to maintain her flawed sense of natural heterosexuality. halberstam moves on to talk about the successful documentary, "march of the penguins" (2005). like other animal documentaries, this humanizes animal life and reduces animals to human ways of life. he explains how this film perpetuates heterosexuality in a false way. the film leaves out key facts about penguins journey to find love and have a baby. the first fact it leaves out is that penguins are not monogamous; they mate for one year and move on. they also leave their babies after they know they are able to swim in the water. the baby penguins then gain five years of their lives on their own, before starting another mating cycle. halberstam claims, "the long march of the penguins is proof neither of heterosexuality in nature nor of the reproductive imperative nor of intelligent design" (halberstam 41).
jack halberstam
in nick haslam's review of dehumanization, he differentiates between uniquely human (uh) characteristics, which distinguish humans from non-human animals, and human nature (hn), characteristics that are typical of or central to human beings. his model suggests that different types of dehumanization arise from the denial of one sense of humanness or the other. language, higher order cognition, refined emotions, civility, and morality are uniquely human characteristics (i.e., traits humans have that non-human animals do not). cognitive flexibility, emotionality, vital agency, and warmth are central to human nature. characteristics of human nature are perceived to be widely shared among groups (i.e., every human has these traits), while uniquely human characteristics (e.g., civility, morality) are thought to vary between groups.
dehumanization