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To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com cc: (bcc: DANIEL DAVIES) bcc: DANIEL DAVIES Subject: Re: Rape/rape offender profiles
>>>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
>
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>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
Errrr....I'm clearly missing something cos this seems quite straightforward. Apes do groom and manatees do nurture, because these are not acts which presuppose a set of human categories. Birds tweet, but don't really sing; magpies take but don't really steal, because singing and stealing do presuppose these human categories. Male animals force females to mate, but only humans rape.
I know that other posters have done this one to death, but felt compelled to mention it because I seem to remember Rob Schaap getting badly beaten up for being clear about this sort of distinction a few months ago.
rgds
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