Thank you Frank ... you've expressed my feelings better than I could have.
Shel > [Original Message] > From: frank theriault > On 10/9/06, Adam Maas wrote: > > 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. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
