gappy
Monday 14th April 2014 9:11pm
Oxford
2,698 posts
WOMAN: [Chanting] 2, 4, 6, 8, who told you I want to mate?
REPORTER: Good afternoon. You join us on Fairstile Common outside Bangor for this special report. Madam, may I enquire what you're doing?
W: I'm protesting. Reclaim the spring! Reclaim the spring!
R: And what are you protesting about, if I may ask?
W: "If I may ask"! Typical man, just blundering in without a second's thought. I'm protesting against male rabbits who think that female rabbits are, ahem, "asking for it", just because of the way they look. [Chanting] No means no! Doe means doe! Buck off, Mr Rabbit!
R: And when you say the way they look you mean...?
W: The various mating rituals that a female rabbit might undertake at this time of year do not equate to an invitation to males to have sex. I mean, answer me this: when a female rabbit thumps the ground with its hind feet and sprays urine in an arc, does this mean they want to be mounted?
R: No.
W: No, exactly.
R: It's the male rabbits that do that. Lapine sexual selection is essentially gynocratic.
W: Well. Alright. But, if they did do a load of mating rituals, it wouldn't mean they wanted to mate.
R: Yes it would.
W: It wouldn't!
R: Yes it would. That's precisely what mating rituals mean. It's mating season.
W: Pah, mating season is a buck concept.
R: No it's not. It's a human concept. Rabbits can't have concepts; they can't communicate at all, to any meaningful degree. In fact the only thing they actually *can* communicate effectively is "I want you to have sex with me". That and "ouch".
W: And that's why I'm speaking for them. Being bullied into sex-
R: Into selecting a partner from a group of willing potential mates
W: - by society.
R: If I might make so bold, your intentions are noble, but you've not really grasped how this works. I'm all for total clothing rights for women, and I've been on the odd Slut Walk myself; I think it's fundamentally wrong to blame a woman for inflaming a man's lust, because men have a conscious choice, they are not animals. But animals are.
W: You mean like rabbits?
R: Yes.
W: What about dogs?
R: Yep, they're animals too.
W: Newts?
R: Mmm-hmm.
W: How about kinkajous? And echidnas, surely not echidnas.
R: Afraid so.
W: What about yeast?
R: Erm....I'm not sure. Don't think so, strictly speaking.
W: Brilliant! Oi, you think I'm going to convert your sugars to carbon dioxide? [Chanting] Hell no, we won't dough! [Fading] 1, 3, 5, 7, yours are loaves we will not leaven!
R: Next up, where *are* the birds that lay these chocolate eggs we've been seeing? Back to you in the studio, Steve.