Photo: Susan Galleymore (2014)
As a non-feathered female brought up on bits and pieces of feminism (particularly the egosyntonic bits) I am outraged that female mallards must live in an environment that offers no recourse to courts, legal system, or sister's/feathered friends' support.
It does something to a person when confronted with such injustice. For example, sometimes hens seek protection from drakes by inserting themselves between the legs of empathetic 5th Avenue Marina live-aboards. The humans respond by kicking away the aggressive drakes.
Truthfully, I am horrified -- and puzzled -- at the pleasure I get from this view of payback. It is egodystonic and that makes me very ... uncomfortable ....
All this "primitive behavior", violence, lack of justice, enrages.
If lower-order ducks refuse to see the value of "the other" within their own genus, how, oh how, can we expect higher-order people to treat one another any better?
How will the planet and its people, creatures, and plants survive?
Oh, dear, oh dear, oh dear.
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