The furor and public outrage surrounding numerous non-fictional outdoors entertainment shows in which female animals are privileged over males for survival in the context of hunting and parallel discourses among hunters about preferences for shooting males inspired this paper. Arguing that distressing representations of hunting as a sexually charged activity are resilient popular culture images, this paper examines the theoretical framework that links hunting with dominant culture gynocratic privileges and the overwhelming empirical evidence of such linkages in the hunting discourse of all hutning related newsstand periodicals. Contemporary feminist theory often connects hunting with sex and women with animals. In the quaint parlance of the observed subjects this is "B.S." This paper details clear evidence of the juxtaposition of hunting and images of dead male animals, correlations to the privileging of female animals, and the psychological connection between hunters and their mothers, showing hunting to be a manifestation of oedipal complexes, a displaced trans-spieces violence transferred from abusive fathers to innocent animals, in the quaint parlance of the observed subjects "critters." This is evindenced in the photographs, narratives, and advertisements of almost all hunting magazines ever known. Particularly prominent in the magazines’ hunting discourses are disproportionate numbers of photos of dead male animals, male human inter-conversations about "points" (belying male functional insecurities), and gynocratic narratives about "good stewardship" with "Mother Earth". This paper concludes that moral outrage at the degradation of men and preference of women, especially when represented with children/fawns/cubs, might be targeted best in the courts on equal rights grounds.
Sounds like what I'm writing right now for one of my courses. Ugh.