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.
"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. "
I think women who equate hunting with sexual violence against women are women who are sexually unstafied for one reason or another and are projecting their psychosis onto other practices and objects.
They may subconsciously equate a maculine hunter with the kind of real man they would like as a companion instead of the gurly-men who typically inhabit college campuses.
OK. Here's a study: university professors hide behind credentials earned through kissing serious a$$ in order to preach to people and indoctrinate youth into their own belief sets. Using paper as a pseudonym for violent acts, they propound theories antithetical to mainstream society in order to capture influence and drive financial markets. Using regression analysis, professors hunt prey with equations and rig the quarry with their mindsets, flunking or dismissing all those who disagree with them.
Anyone who doesn't have credentials may not participate in the debate, and, is therefore dead to university professors.
Funding needs to be investigated for these theses.
Great big honking, barking, raving moonbat warning!
And not like that, either!
LOL.
I sure hope they don't ever pick up a mainstream car magazine. I love them as they are a crystal clear window into the heart of men and how men communicate with each other. This helps me understand the world for what it is, rather than just see it through my girl glasses.
But boy would these ladies get their panties in a bunch over the "symbolism" in there. Phew.
It's time to let the boys be boys and the men be men. If you don't like it—give 'em their club back and you won't have to watch.
Assuming they wear any. Or shave their pits.
"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."
I confess! I confess! If nothing's going on in the field while I'm waiting for a deer to walk by my deerstand I "abuse" myself...I'm so ashamed! *Rolleyes*
What a load of deer poop. These people are absolutely insane.
We hear this crap every few years as a "new"study and it is the same as before, some man hating/fearing feminist supposing. Whatever man does that a woman doesn't do as much is "sexual violence" or substitutes for sexual predation.
stupid collegiate liberal idjits...
Evening Rose, yuh fergot Sam Cree as well.
Who've known that we were up to such mayhem. lol.
Wonder what these moonbats think about those of us who actually cut down a tree, split up the logs and drawknife into a bow blank and commence tillering it. Lots of material there, symbologically speaking, lol.
Maybe we should send them some back issues of Primitive Archer. :-)
I know professors like that. Smug, condescending to conservative students, and armed to the teeth with their stupid agenda.
I'm not readin' this. I don't listen to criticism of hunters by anyone that's not a vegetarian, and usually not even then!
Thanks, though :-)
Cities are precious, but city folk are nearsighted and shortsighted, as a rule. And dumbasses, too. 'Cept for the nice ones.
Three women in Michigan who can't get laid!
Probably look like janet reno on crack!
"Vegetarian" An old Indian word which means "Lousy Hunter"!
LOL!
Leftist academic quacks long ago decided that the US was essentially a hopelessly fascist country with its emphasis on family, religion and respect for legitimate authority i.e. police, fire etc. "The Authoritarian Personality" by T. Adorno is a good primer on this. Since the 1930's the emphasis in academia has been focused on deconstructing the social and legal institutions in this country, they've done a bang-up job of it without the sheeple having a clue. This article dove-tails nicely with their thesis, so I'm sure they will enjoy a certain amount of celebrity.
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