On 10/9/06, Adam Maas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tim, > > Because the title is the only way to accurately describe the situation. > Natural selection is often rather nasty (If you think this is bad, go > read about Orca breeding patterns. They're nasty, and with beings far > closer to sentience than a Mallard). >
Adam, With the greatest of respect, I must disagree. Rape is forced sexual intercourse. It implies a non-consentual act. Ducks don't have the capacity to agree or disagree with these things - it's pure animal instinct, not reasoned consent or lack thereof - and I mean that from both the male and female perspective. The male ducks can't be said to understand when a female says no, any more than a female can be said to consent to the sexual act. Whatever is happening among those ducks, brutish and ugly as it might be, to call it rape is to demean the experience of victims of sexual assault everywhere. cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
