Date: Tue, 15 Apr 1997 21:38:48 +0000 From: "doug bosco" <dark@popmail.mcs.net> To: cp@opus.hpl.hp.com Message-Id: <aabcdefg1464$foo@default> Subject: Re: men and CPs
> >Quite simple. Men are by nature (thanks to evolution) hunters. It
> >isn't surprising that we would be interested in plants which hunt. It
> >should be no surprise that Carnivorous Plants are a male preserve.
>
> C'mon! Do you really think that stationary plants can be called hunters
> and thus compared to males? They attract bugs with scents and colors and
> then engulf them. That doesn't sound too "male" to me.
>
> In one of her (excellent) books, Sara Stein writes about how we like to
> talk about plants as if they had male and female sex like humans, while
> the truth is that their sexuality and reproductive schemes are quite
> unlike ours. If we see plants as being "masculine" or "feminine" its
> mostly a product of our minds.
Well, doesn't trapping count as hunting?? Our ancestors not only
hunted with spears and bows and arrows but also set traps, and often
they caught more game with traps than with spears. In fact some
tribes still subsist in this way.
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