The lead author, Linda Kalof.
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
A taxpayer funded study, I'm sure.
BULL SH**
I just got back from hunting with my son. While the act of hunting gives me a woody, I can't say that I have ever felt like beating my wife or any other woman.
It's Michigan. I think any state that claims Michael Moore as a resident left the real world a long time ago. Just a couple of Blue Staters trying to justify tenure...
I know, I know. But how do the women who like to hunt, figure into their data gathering? I don't see that mentioned, but I might have missed it, LOL.
Wonder how much grant money these people leeched off the taxpayers for such a load of tripe.
http://tinyurl.com/7m85f
Photos of the authoresses:
http://www.dietzkalof.org/
http://ecoculturalgroup.msu.edu/people/amyf.html
http://ecoculturalgroup.msu.edu/people/lori.html
I remember reading a long time ago that men think about sex on the order of once every ten seconds. I believe that with some men, this is true, others may only have a sexual thought every 20 seconds or so.
This doesn't bother me, because I think it's the normal way of things, that men are male and women are female. But it clearly bothers the authors! What are they going to do--make thinking in sexual terms illegal for men?
I wish them luck. Frankly, I like men just the way they are. I guess these females don't.
The lead author, Linda Kalof.
Who pays them to produce this garbage ?
Yet another example of the fact that people employed in the university system have way too much free time on their hands, and their imaginations are far too wild.
Mark
Sounds like a bunch of blind tuna attracted tunas
Radical feminists are ugly broads who can't get a date unless its with another radical feminist.
These people are just nuts.
I eat what I hunt. Heh!
#####MSU professors link hunting with sexual violence#####
I didn't know Bill Clinton & Ted Kennedy were hunters.
Someone is lying about the other nine seconds.
;-)
Ahhhh! That explains it all....my bow hunting fervor is just displaced sexual urge!!!
I guess I'll have to drop my bow and just get down to the business of sexual violence.
These femino-nazis are short several arrows in their quiver, that is if they have a quiver and know how to use it ?
Oh what a different tune they would sing if our society was still nomadic and meat on their bones depended on
Hector the Hero coming home from the HUNT!
Hunting is an action which synchronizes one with nature.
They no nothing about it.
Why is she wearing red? Afraid of getting hit with an arrow?
Paint a bulls eye on that cape!
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