Rape/rape offender profiles

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>>>What's the point of this analogy between raping and eating, though?  That
>both are verbs doesn't mean the actions described by them belong in the
>same category of behaviors that have the same histories (biological &
>social).  Humans cannot go without eating, but men can do very well without
>raping.  I haven't heard of a man who died because he had no person to rape.
>
>Yoshie
>
>=======
>Is grooming anthropomorphic? How about nurturing? How about song? Do birds
>REALLY sing? Or is it just a semantic delusion, a bit of sophistry on our
>part?  Thanks for missing my point.
>
>Ian

What's the point?  I'm sure ethology is endlessly interesting to you &
perhaps other posters, but the point of the thread is _rape_, which is to
say, a _political_ question that concerns _us_, not dolphins.  Dolphins
don't give _a damn_ about what you think of their sex.

Yoshie

P.S.  I'd change my mind if dolphin females began to organize themselves
into a political movement demanding emancipation from sexist oppression.
Or if dolphin males began to justify their behaviors in sexist terms.  : )

P.P.S.  Human, all too human....