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>disgustingly rapey This anthromorphization is deeply annoying. What next? Turtles don’t care about age of consent?
by dyauspitr 1y ago
>disgustingly rapey
This anthromorphization is deeply annoying. What next? Turtles don’t care about age of consent?
- bowsamic 1y agoWe have indoor rabbits and our boy rabbit often mounts the female one (they are both neutered). What else is there to call it but rape? He mounts her, she rejects it and runs away, he insists, eventually she has enough and they have a fight. It’s basically impossible to not call it rape
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- mc32 1y agoIt’s mating behavior. The don't have the concept of rape. They don’t have peers who punish them for this behavior. It all instinct and nothing else.
- bowsamic 1y agoIt doesn't matter if they have a concept of it, I'm talking about our concept of it, and their behaviour accords to that concept
- quesera 1y agoIt's a loaded word though, with psychological and social implications that far exceed the simple description of the act. Absent the psychology and society, what is it? Obnoxious dominant behavior, maybe. But in context, is it even obnoxious or is that just humans having opinions again? The hens don't appear to love it, but they don't like being rained on either. And just like being caught in a rainstorm, they shake themselves off, and get on with their day. Is this OK? I don't know, but it's thoroughly normal and necessary for species survival. Hens do not go into heat or have sex drives, so the hen will never initiate or encourage sex. So all chicken mating is nonconsensual. What does consent even mean here? Yet they survive as a (now domesticated) species. Similarly, is it "murder" when a coyote eats a chicken? Maybe, but only if we're anthropomorphizing. Really it's just predation. It sets off our moral triggers, but it's an essential function of life -- and for that matter, we do it too and rarely feel bad about it.
- dyauspitr 1y agoYes, essential all procreation in the wild amounts to rape. Most procreation involves dazzling the female for a few seconds so they can get close enough to rape them. Frankly anything that isn’t rape is abnormal.
- rendall 1y agoI was a tourist in Athens once. Adjacent to the Presidential Mansion is the National Garden, quite lovely. At the time it had a miserable little zoo. In one of the cages was a pair of bedraggled hens. Their backs were entirely bare of any feathers. The reason they were bedraggled and bare was because they were locked in with a rooster. That rooster would mount and rut with them every four seconds or so, all day long, every day. It was one of the most cruel and grotesque tableus I've ever seen.
- spookie 1y agoThat's normal rooster behaviour even when free range. Farmers separate them most of the time.
- edm0nd 1y agonature is cruel. if you think about it, most animals die fucked up deaths and end up starving, injured, or being torn apart by a predator.
- rendall 1y agoThat was not nature. That was a human who made the decision to keep those birds penned up together.
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- IAmBroom 1y agoI've raised meat rabbits. Screaming and bloodletting fights are a part of the clearly nonconsensual mating process. Or there's dolphins, who will use the threat of drowning to force mating. Waterboarding females for sex. It's not anthropomorphization. Nor "anthromophization".
- dyauspitr 1y agoNon consensual doesn’t mean anything to any animal.