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Posted on 11/13/2005 3:44:04 PM PST by SJackson
Three female Michigan State University professors studied the magazine "Traditional Bowhunter," and concluded that hunting is a form of sexual violence with animals substituted for women. They describe hunting as, "erotic heterosexual predation, sadomasochism, restraint for aggressive sexual energy, and allied with the abuse of women." I think I need to take up bowhunting.
The article entitled, "Animals, Women and Weapons: Blurred Sexual Boundaries in the Discourse of Sport Hunting" was published by the Society & Animals Forum. The genesis of the article was the 2003 video "Hunting for Bambi," which reached national attention that year when many news-outlets reported a group in Nevada was selling "hunts" which men paid thousands of dollars to shoot naked women with paintball guns. The producers of the DVD later admitted the hunters and women involved were actors. Like in high-budget porn, the star is only an "actor" and really cannot fix the cable.
Concluding that men turn bows and firearms into phallic symbols, the researchers point to terms and jargon found in the magazine in order to reaffirm their belief of displaced sexual drive. "Climax," "big'uns," and "homely cow" are but a few of the many terms with which they took issue. Two things, first, using terms out of context allows anyone to make them sexual. Second, we are talking about hunting, not sex.
The study fails to see the subject matter as merely hunting. The outrageous links between sexual violence and hunting would cause sensible readers to scoff, but remember, the authors are members of MSU faculty, which makes this paper all the more scary.
Apparently, the woman-is-an-animal argument is only valid until the kill. "When alive and being chased in a sport of hunting, animals are given human characteristics...but when dead and displayed as a trophy, anthropomorphism is no longer necessary...and the animal is simply dead." Why anthropomorphism would be necessary in the first place is not explored. Furthermore, why is it not necessary in the second place?
Indeed, their argument is that men are violent creeps who beat up on poor, cuddly animals because there are no women running around the woods. "Violence against animals and women is linked by a theory of 'overlapping but absent referents' that institutionalizes patriarchal values...animals often are the absent referents in actions and phrases that actually are about women-and women often are the absent referents for animals." Therefore, when men are hunting they do so because there are no women present, conversely, when men are with women they are doing so because there are no animals present.
Absent from this study is where the millions of female hunters fit For that is the only logical conclusion of the animal-is-a-woman and woman-is-an-animal thesis. Not far removed from their illation would be to say women obtain sexual gratification from hunting but actually wish they were sexually abusing women, or maybe themselves.
What would an academic study be these days without a conclusion that points to racism? The study encapsulated that hunting is "cultural messages that validate and exacerbate white male dominance and power." The argument of racial oppression and hunting goes out the window because one can only shoot one Black Duck a day as apposed to five of another species.
When read in its entirety, the syllogistic argument takes on the seriousness of a Mad TV skit.
Maybe it is "Traditional Bowhunter" that is laying the groundwork for world takeover. Once again, the paper's authors come through and leave the reader not disappointed. They warn that, "[T]he underlying messages of the sexualizing of women, animals, and weapons in Traditional Bowhunter cannot be dismissed simply as a hoax. They are resilient popular culture images that celebrate and glorify weapons, killing, and violence, laying the groundwork for the perpetuation of attitudes of domination, power, and control
Is there anyway they could be signed up for the next episode with Ted on "Wanted: Ted or Alive"?
In the end, these "scholarly" feminist articles are always about envy. ;)
It's funny that the libs sexualized every dang thing in the fricking universe, then complain that the hunting magazines use sexualized language. What a bunch of crapola!
Not only that, but of the two, which one would you want covering your back in a self-defense situation? Certainly not Red Toga.
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That is the single dumbest thing i've ever heard. But keep talking ladies. Idiots like you drive those on the fence to the republican camp come election time.
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I'd like to put these three female Michigan State University professors on an island.....naked.
And hunt them.
And if I trap them, I get to sleep with them.
"Their line of thinking is so screwy it's hard to come up with an analogy, but here goes...
Law Enforcement and sex are also related because there are newsgroup pictures where people are handcuffed, some bachelor parties feature a stripper dressed as a policewoman, and it's called "copping a feel." Coincidence?"
Grant this man a PHD and give him tenure.
"Yes it was a long shot for a .22. The bird flew up for a distance with its mate flying by its side, then made an arc into the ground. I did not find the bullet hole so it's possible it died on impact. It was a beautiful healthy bird, free in the wild, and in hindsight a shame I used it to prove I could kill it. What I wasn't expecting was its mate flying by its side till death do them part."
Jesus Cornflakes son you need to find real things to worry about. Did you lose your purse?
"There is little doubt that guns, bows, knives, and automobiles are penis extensions (for the Freudian-inclined). There's also little doubt that that is perfectly acceptable, since they are merely projections of male sexuality. They are only "wrong" if male sexuality is wrong.
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They are shaped this way for the simple reason that this shape works well for a weapon. A vagina isn't a shape you can kill with.
don't you hate looking at the object of ire in an article and going, "hey! i know her!" she's always seemed nice enough, i never knew she had that wierd of philosophies.
Your choice of bait, but to avoid bruising, use one of these
not these
You might want to check out their pictures upthread first.
Wheeeew! When I read the title the first thing that popped into my head was Mississippi State Univ. Thank God, for a moment I thought the whole world had come to an end.
It's not even the single dumbest thing I posted from a liberal yesterday. IMO that award goes to
Girls Inc. reveals to girls that abstinence is not the only method of birth control. Since abstinence has been known to fail, it also acknowledges the existence of contraception and abortion.
Can't say I wouldn't enjoy some nice naked woman strut by..while in my tree stand.
But the truth is...I'd much rather see a 150" Pope & Young buck walk into range. So would my wife...
Heh, heh, heh....
I'm going to have to read the entire thread to see how it got so deranged, but in the meantime, have you heard about the terrible weather in Hawaii?
http://www.mypartypost.com/watchvideo/552/Triumph_the_Insult_Comic_Dog_Does_Weather_for_Hawaii
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