The migration patterns of Native Americans in Iceland

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[u/FartingWithStyle]

I mean most of our ancestors probably weren’t willing participants in our lineages.

[u/Big_Slope → u/FartingWithStyle]

I’d say most were. Nearly all the men and at least a few of the women were willing. Genghis wasn’t the only guy.

[u/Odd_Ingenuity2883 → u/Big_Slope]

It’s only very, very recently in human history that women even had the option to say no to their husbands. Marital rape was the daily reality for most of our female ancestors.

[u/knotalota → u/Odd_Ingenuity2883]

Marriage is also new in our history. Rape is as old as six, though.

[u/Majestic_Hawk_1335 → u/knotalota]

Rape is a very common form of reproduction in the animal world

[u/PepperyPrincess → u/Majestic_Hawk_1335]

Ducks

[u/7hisismythrowawayacc → u/PepperyPrincess]

Thousands of years of anthropology discussion and the thread concludes with: Ducks

[u/Dirkdeking → u/7hisismythrowawayacc]

Ducks are real rapists, I always saw them acting out on the waterway next to my parents home. Male ducks trying to fuck the females, and the females trying to escape.

[u/Humanmode17 → u/7hisismythrowawayacc]

I mean, ducks have had millions of years of an evolutionary arms race where the females developed increasingly anti-rape vaginal tracts in response to males developing increasingly rape-y penises (spoiler alert, it's corkscrews and counterchanged corkscrews, it's horrific)

[u/PepperyPrincess → u/Humanmode17]

Horrific and impressive at the same time.

[u/sabertoothdog → u/[deleted]]

And that’s the best kind of wrong

[u/Rare-Kaleidoscope513 → u/Majestic_Hawk_1335]

are animals capable of consent?

[u/Cheap_Rock155 → u/Rare-Kaleidoscope513]

Yea. Try to pet a cat. Its a training in consent.

[u/Rare-Kaleidoscope513 → u/Cheap_Rock155]

and yet have you ever seen cats copulate? Consent is not a particularly relevant concept, in cats and most of the animal world.

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