Posted on 08/15/2005 12:32:16 PM PDT by OESY
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I'bm havibg another obe ov mi atakks.
Keep 'em fired, don't pay 'em a cent.
This is a wild animal living in a caged environment.
You have to expect some behavior from a gorilla which might seem strange to humans. They don't even know if it's deviant behavior for gorillas.
Bleep, deviant behavior in humankind, is, according to the fagachussets SJC, an "evolving paradigm" (yes, those same people who brought you homosexual marriage).
There's barely a baseline for gorilla behavior in a natural habitat, how messed up can a caged animal be?
How would a human behave in those conditions (besides Charlton Heston, LOL)?
What the freak do these gold diggers expect?
What schools did these idiots go to? Probably liberal (what other kind is there). They should be learning and writing papers about Koko.
I've always been fascinated by the whole Koko animal-human communication experiment.
Unless the lead researcher (defendant) really is a lesbo (which I doubt), and has somehow flipped out Koko, then I don't think Koko's demands are too far out of line.
Gorilla's don't wear clothes. Maybe bare skin and breasts are some kind of visual signal to her. I could imagine clothes freaking me out if all I was programed for was a hairy (naked) body.
Sounds like Koko might just want to know what she's dealing with.
Who knows how her brain deals with captivity and being continually surrounded by another species, hidden behind the falseness of human clothing?
Olfactory signals might not be enough for a gorilla, most humans have lost (or are unaware of) a lot of their sense of smell. Remember, a gorilla's genes are pretty close to ours.
Animals also have a lot of visual signals lost to most humans.
As far as having to clean up the cage, WTF did they expect?
If you had an experimental animal that you'd invested your lifespan and professional reputation on, would you want a minimum wage, non-english-speaking type messing around in the cage?
A recent hospital experience reaffirmed that I don't want those types anywhere near me. I was essentially a captive, they didn't speak my language, and they smelled bad.
They were smaller, shorter, and a different color from me. It was uncomfortable, and for all it mattered, I was a captive of a foreign species.
For all it mattered, I could have been a gorilla (well, except of the hair and weight, I pretty much am, LOL).
I hung in there as long as I needed to, just get checked out normally for my insurance to cover it.
Apply that experience to a completely different species, with a much lower IQ, and put up cage bars.
Bleep these women that are suing.
Best show ever loved it as a youngin
I can't believe people on this thread are acting like the gorilla did it. It wasn't the gorilla, it was the caretaker who is causing the problem. Find a caretaker who doesn't have this fetish.
Koko is a female. However, she doesn't seem to much like the male Gorillas they try to fix her with.
She's kinker than that. It's only naked female HUMAN breasts that seem to interest her.
But not with male gorrillas. Those seem to turn her off. Or maybe she turns them off? Can't see why though, she's one good looking gorrilla, or at least I'm sure that's what Billy Jeff would say. :)
The actual title of the source story is:
'Women: Caretaker of famous gorilla pressured us to bare our breasts'
OESY, it is good FR form to use the same title or headline for a post that was used for the source article. This facilitates FR searches to avoid duplicate posts.
I blame Jane Goodall.
My first reaction was that it isn't Koko with the fetish- it's the Doctor, who is probably a lesbian with some serious kink issues.
It wasn't the female gorilla who got mad if shirts weren't raised, was it??
The Insane running the monkey house.
So shes into Humanalitie
Nick, Nick, please listen to what you are saying...
You must understand Koko is, of course, gay. She is as entitled to free expression of her completely natural and good desires as any human ... you ante-diluvian right-wing bigot! Being gay is not a fetish, it's a right. In fact God Herself may be gay, if indeed Koko believes in Her. As would be her right to, or not.
However, although Koko clearly needs to learn more about Sexual Harassment in the Workplace, blaming this on the caretaker actually demeans Koko. It deprives her of responsibility. That means you need counseling about females in the workplace and alternative lifestyles.
We'll be discussing your pathetic case at our PETA meeting this Thursday evening, and again at our HR Conference on Friday morning.
This communication may be construed as a warning and shall be placed in your personnel file.
It would be like me saying to one of the lab girls,
"Oh look, Koko just signed that you need to run out to get me some meat lovers pizza (thin crust), pick up a case of Yuengling on the way home, and then dress up in a skimpy french maid outfit to dust the furniture as I watch the game this afternoon. Isn't she just precious, Koko is also apparently signing that you are a sex kitten and need to be spanked because you've been ever so naughty."This is all about a pervy lesbo scientist trying to get her jollies by blaming it all on a monkey.
While walking the dog I could just use the ol' "Hey, my dog wants to see your breasts" line.
Is that for real? Is that American Sign Language?
I remember in high school, my best friend's gorgeous little sister got in a car and was driven away, signing something to him out the back window (I don't know why or how she was learning American Sign Language, we were too small to offer a course like that).
My friend started laughing, and I asked him why.
He said she had just signed F**k You.
I always thought it was a great means of semi-secret communication, even for the non-speech or hearing impaired.
Like the Navajo code talkers in WWII.
Or the fictional Dune book series hand signals.
Then there was this unforgettably beautiful tall girl in Georgetown that I couldn't communicate with...
Wow! I never saw Howard Stern with his hair that color before!
it was the caretaker who is causing the problem.
That's pretty much what I was saying, in a late-night, long winded, kinda way. It just pissed me off that they were going after the "lead researcher, Dr. Francine "Penny" Patterson.
Like I said, from what I've read, and seen on documentaries, she was one of the first to make an interspecies communications break-through.
Despite what I grew up with, Lassie didn't understand, neither did Flipper, and Dr. Doolittle couldn't really talk to animals.
I believe Koko does communicate with another species. To me, that's just cool.
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