Chicken!

I still feel rotten.

But since I wrote last evening, I have been thinking about chickens.  If there is more than one rooster in a hen house, they will repeatedly rape the hens to declare dominance.  The hens are usually minding their own business, when a rooster jumps on their backs.  There is lots of squawking and the rooster prances away.  If there is more than one rooster, most of the hens will have scabbed bloody backs. 

That is what I see with some of the sexual interactions among humans.  The men feel so belittled by our culture that they prove their manhood by jumping any female they can catch.  They are so distanced from their own humanity that they can't tell the difference between rape and participatory sex.

Then there is the pecking order.  Chickens competitively rank each member of the flock.  We did that in school.  We are allowed to do this - no adult ever stopped us.  And in fact, by instituting the Red Birds, Blue Birds and Yellow Birds, we were taught to identify status and classify each other.  That violence and bullying is intrinsic in the system and no one recognizes it.

Of all the species possible on this beautiful Earth, why do we behave like captive chickens?  We need a new role model for our humanity!!!

Early bed for me...

Love you,

Clare