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I saw a post recently that posited that there's "no way to know" if an ewe exhibits homosexual mating behavior because they "just stand still"

many people responded

"This too is yuri"

"A total of 173 ewes in 24 one-sire breeding pens were observed continuously for one estrous period. The female frequently initiated sexual contact by seeking out the ram. In general, ewes followed the rams about while in heat. When two or more were in heat simultaneously, certain ewes bunted or crowded other estrous ewes in an attempt to gain the attention of the rams." Mating behavior of the Ewe C. V. Hulet, R. L. Blackwell, S. K. Ercanbrack, D. A. Price, L. O. Wilson Journal of Animal Science, Published 01 November 1962

What do we gain by the extrapolation of this behavior onto human lesbians? What do we lose?

When were "single women" first free to do as they liked? Women gained the right to own property in the United States in 1900. For Pre-civil-rights-era black women this expansion of womens' rights hardly helped.

Marital rape became a crime in 1993.

No-fault divorce was not fully legalized until 2010. Women who could have been raped by their husbands at age 20 are now 52 years old. Women older than that lived in this reality.

"no-fault divorce correlates with a reduction in female suicides and a reduction in intimate partner violence. A 2004 paper by economists Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolvers found an 8 to 16% decrease in female suicides after states enacted no-fault divorce laws. They also noted a roughly 30% decrease in intimate partner violence among both women and men, and a 10% drop in women murdered by their partners." What is no-fault divorce, and why do some conservatives want to get rid of it? AJ Willingham, CNN

It's still legal to institutionalize minors for gender deviance and the practice of non-consensual institutionalization of women for gender deviance has existed as long as the institutions themselves.

What about this story of two ewes appeals?

"Other sexually active females in the group will allow you to observe if the individual is in standing heat when other sexually active females are present to mount her." "Characteristic behavior for the ewe is rapid tail movement or raised tail in the presence of the ram. She will demonstrate secondary estrus behaviors such as nervousness, walking the fence or increased vocalizations for the ram" Estrus Detection in Farm Animals Yeager, Neary, Singleton Purdue University Department of Animal Sciences

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