MSU professors link hunting with sexual violence

Michigan Times ^ | 11-13-05 | Page W. H. Brousseau IV

[Taffini]

I will have to show that to my son

I wonder if his grandmother would rather have him shoot paint balls at girls or go out and kill little helpless deer

[DarkSavant]

Think next time MSU asks for a donation, I'll only give if they kick those bozos out of the university.

[Heatseeker]

LOL! (After checking to make sure Mrs Heatseeker isn't looking)

[Apogee]

OK, there can be a lot of crude imagery or double entendre in any group or magazine that is predominately male oriented, but there are some real big leaps here, probably fueled my a definitely "gendered" bias and lack of any real contact with real people.

>deer antlers were “big’uns”
only someone with her mind in stuck in the gutter would think 'big'uns' has to be sexual.

>“Take ‘em with Wood!”
people have been 'taking' game a long time, even before scholars decided it was imagery sexual violence (or devices uninvented)

>"Become the arrow"
oh yeah, that is a sexual reference, not at all related to the currently trendy "be the (fill in the blank)" pseudo eastern mysticism displayed in popular movie culture.

>references to the bow’s “sweet spot,” which we read as heterosexual imagery of the hugely popular discourse on a woman’s “G spot”:
let's see - baseball and golfing (to mention a few) have only been using the term "sweet spot" since the 'discovery' of the "G-spot" I take it. Who knew?

And here I thought this was going to be the standard rifle as an extension of the phallus trope.

[Apogee]

"The Alphabet Versus the Goddess" may have some of the answers you seek.
IIRC, this is the source of some notion to the effect of - women need iron because they menstruate, iron is found in meat, therefore women need meat. Men need sex, women need meat, therefore men hunt to give women meat, man gets sex, woman gets iron, everybody happy.

Great book for the bathroom magazine rack (I'll let you judge its best use...)

[Nebr FAL owner]

Some ideas are so silly that only a University educated Masters degree holding "intellectual"can believe them and this is one of those "ideas"

[SunkenCiv]

"I think I need to take up bowhunting... Absent from this study is where the millions of female hunters fit."

Bullseye.

[muir_redwoods]

So Charlie hear's there's a big bear in the woods and come hunting season he decides to get the bear. He takes his 12 ga and loads it up with slugs and ventures out into the woods. He hunts all day before he spots the biggest bear he has ever seen. He sneaks up and just when he thinks he has a clear shot the bear springs at him takes his shotgun and then bends him over a stump and rapes him.

Charlie is hurt, embarrassed and scared but mostly he is mad. He makes his way home and, after a few days recuperating, he takes his 30-30 and heads out again. Same thing happens, as he gets close to the bear it charges and takes his 30-30 and once again, rapes him.

Now Charlie is steaming mad, no bear is going to humiliate him like this so he gets a .300 win mag and, after a few days to heal up, heads back out. This time he can fire from a distance and stands no chance of having the hunt end up the way it has twice before. Charlie hunts all day but can't find the bear. Finally as it is getting dark, he regretfully heads home. As he comes up a rise the bear surprises him and takes the gun away a third time. As the bear prepares to humiliate Charlie once again, the bear says,

"It's not really about the hunting, is it Charlie?"