White women.

Now if women of color, who obviously lack a voice and are under more real, material as well as psychological pressures than are white women, where are they, women of color, in the animal rights movement?

You won’t find them because the line in the sand isn’t gender. It’s race. The animal rights movement is a white movement. And its sociopathic exuberant love for animals over people of color who historically have been the underdogs in this country (and if you care to look, all around the Earth) is linked to the evidence heavy reality that white oppression has created the global underclass of Black and brown and red and yellow people.

So while I do agree with your underdog theory, it is incomplete in a fundamental way. The displaced empathy of white people unto animals is a manifestation of the wages of whiteness, the oppressive force that has caused so much suffering around the world and that has robbed so-called white people of their humanity, of their ability to connect, to empathize and care for other humans.

Animal love is the replacement.