Here at the ZRC we of course encourage people to encourage Zombies to participate more fully in public activities. So this IMMD post about a citizen being delighted to see Zombies at a vegetarian restaurant is in part a heartening one.

Yet here the author still indulges in Zombie stereotyping. Never seen a vegetarian Zombie before? Fair enough, I suppose, but it shouldn’t be so surprising. Zombies are people too, and some people, a small subset, are vegetarians. This stems fairly obviously, I think, from the ‘Zombies are brain-munchers’ stereotyping, and that’s a shame.

Still, whoever this IMMD poster is, they seem to have overcome the negative feelings inspired by the stereotype even as they can’t completely process it out, and welcome Zombies into the public sphere. That’s something at least. It’s a bittersweet thought though, that as Zombies become more accepted and mainstream, such events will inevitably cease being exceptional, and hence, perhaps cease making peoples’ days.

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