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.
On second thought, they may be onto something here...
Posted on 11/22/2005 10:46:10 AM PST by Pyro7480
MSU professors link hunting with sexual violence
By Page W. H. Brousseau IV
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.
The author is probably not aware of another study that found that hunters are better lovers than non-hunters. The study based this conclusion on several characteristics of hunters:
1. Hunters spend more time in, and go deeper into, the bush.
2. Hunters shoot more often.
3. Hunters eat whatever they shoot.
Sounds like what I'm writing right now for one of my courses. Ugh.
Strange, I though getting a doe tag was a bit homo.
If you're hunting for an "inner male" then you really should consult either Mapquest or an anatomy textbook.
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.
On second thought, they may be onto something here...
I know I am in trouble when the teacher is hunting me down!
Look like cumb dunts to me.
I like the organic free range steaks personally. The hunt aint bad either.
I've got to mark this thread for reading this evening. I've no doubts FREEP humor will be in very high form. ;)
I read enough to understand I don't want these nitwits analyzing the oil drilling industry....SHEESH! WHAT DRIVEL!
Roger that! And those poor bastards were told to find thier "inner male" by the Therapist thier liberal girl friend told them to go to.
mark
How do these broads get to be "professors"? Does anyone think they actually do anything useful? Does this kind of bilge add anything to human knowledge? Is "wymmins studies" an academic discipline or is it just a bunch of bitchy females and fairies grinding their axes together? (I know the answer to that one.) Shouldn't all these broads be doing something useful with themselves at home instead of travelling everyday to college campuses and destroying academia?
Up here near New Paltz, New York a few years back, a bunch of scuzzy young broads put on a play called "Revolting Behavior" where they engaged in every form of sexual debauchery and chicanery imaginable, right on a stage in front of people, on the college campus. Shouldn't these little witches be burned at the stake?
DA740
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ack - barf alert?
I don't hunt, but this theory is hysterical. Does this mean that woman who hunt are lesbians- frustrated self hating, lesbians or that they are just better at math?
When my son was about 8 we ( my husband, children and I) had gone to a local restaurant. My son asked to use the restroom. When he came out he said " Dad they have pictures of beavers in there". I dropped my jaw in shock-
" What did you say? " I asked trying to keep a calm tone,
" they have pictures of beavers in there". Playing very dumb I asked " What do you mean beavers?". My son looking rather exasperated at his very stoopid mother. Said " You know, beavers they chew trees and build stuff". I admit my sigh of relief was audible over the whole restaurant.
I was just about to post the same thing. Can we say "Deer in the headlights eyes"?
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