Is it a bad day for your narrative when you have to stoop this low to justify a kink? We’re talking about whales. Male whales. One is reported to have attempted some form of whale-like penetration of the other, possibly without its consent. #MeToo? #BeleiveallWhales. Why bring it up?
Some goofy dude wrote a desperate article about it in The Guardian. It makes you wonder what they are guarding. How about same-gender whale rape.
Philip Hoare excitedly informs us that: “The first documented sex between two male humpback whales is just the latest challenge to our presumptions about sexuality.” (I myself didn’t have a huge number of presumptions about the sex lives of humpback whales, but alright.) This is leaving aside the fact that whale-to-human comparisons, which are always exceedingly tricky, are particularly so with this example. Hoare admits:
In fact, one of the whales was ailing and there has been speculation that the encounter may not have been consensual or that the healthy whale was actually giving comfort to the other. Whatever the truth, such ‘flagrant’ acts also expose many of our human presumptions about sexuality, gender and identity.
…
Hoare spends several more paragraphs attempting to make the clumsy case that the “queer sea” should cause us to embrace gender fluidity, or something – he doesn’t mention that they have not yet discovered sea animals volunteering for castration due to identity crises, but I look forward to the inevitable and valiant effort. He does admit that “We cannot know how whales and dolphins themselves regard genital interactions,” which is a big admission, all things considered.
Another big admission might be how big the oceans are and how few queer sea creatures last beyond their current generation, and how if that’s, in fact, normal, the mystery as to why the biosphere is trying to rid itself of them.
Humans are less a mystery, but why not muddy the sea waters with wild speculations about the wild time had by wildlife, consensual or not, as the template for human culture? Cross-species appropriation? Birds do it, bees do it, and male whales who like rape do it. Let’s do it; let’s end our genetic history. If that’s your thing, swim in the adult waters in which the two (or more) of you agree. Just leave the children and non-consenting mammals out of it and call it what it is.
Adopting a whale’s gay sex habits (if that’s even what this is) is a leap that Darwinists would label a failed evolutionary mutation. If ending your genetic posterity is who you are, accept that maybe that’s what the earth wants and be you. But there’s no need to justify it with a one-off event between two whales who’ve had the fortune not to get themselves murdered by offshore wind farms.
