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MSU Professors Link Hunting With Sexual Violence (As Heard on Rush)
Michigan Times ^ | 11/7/2005 | Page W. H. Brousseau IV

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.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events; US: Michigan
KEYWORDS: academia; banglist; cantgetlaid; comehereoften; donetodeath; feminazi; feminazis; highereducation; hunting; loonyleft; michigan; misandry; moonbat; peta; psychobabble; radicalfeminists; rushlimbaugh; wacko
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You can't make this stuff up!!
1 posted on 11/22/2005 10:46:11 AM PST by Pyro7480
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To: Pyro7480

Ping to me for later read.


2 posted on 11/22/2005 10:47:05 AM PST by CSM (When laws are written, they apply to ALL...Not just the yucky people you don't like. - HairOfTheDog)
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To: Pyro7480

There needs to be a study on how social researchers come up with the wildest (and flimsiest) ways to claim innocent activities into some sort of satanic ritual.


3 posted on 11/22/2005 10:48:58 AM PST by thoughtomator (Hindsight is 20/20, or in the case of Democrats, totally blind)
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To: Pyro7480

I wonder how much this gem cost the Michigan Tax payers


4 posted on 11/22/2005 10:49:10 AM PST by tfecw (It's for the children)
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To: Pyro7480

So if they're right peak season for whorehouses would be hunting season.


5 posted on 11/22/2005 10:49:37 AM PST by Semper Paratus
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To: Pyro7480

Nice Beaver.


6 posted on 11/22/2005 10:50:14 AM PST by YouPosting2Me
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"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."

What a load of crap.

Maybe they could set these dummies down in the woods and test their theories!

MSU alums...oh what a sad day for you.


7 posted on 11/22/2005 10:52:02 AM PST by Adder (Can we bring back stoning again? Please?)
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To: thoughtomator
There needs to be a study on how social researchers come up with the wildest (and flimsiest) ways to claim innocent activities into some sort of satanic ritual.

It's displacement, to use some psychological terminology. These feminazis are often involved in deviant, sometimes occult behavior, and to justify their lifestyle, they have to demonize normal heterosexual behavior.

8 posted on 11/22/2005 10:52:27 AM PST by Pyro7480 (Sancte Joseph, terror daemonum, ora pro nobis!)
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To: Pyro7480

Then how come hunters perfer to shoot the stags???


9 posted on 11/22/2005 10:53:00 AM PST by Shermy
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To: Pyro7480

I think the professor was just repeating Link Hunting over and over...

Link Hunting
Link Hunting
Link Hunting
Link Hunting
Link Hunting
Link Hunting


10 posted on 11/22/2005 10:53:10 AM PST by YouPosting2Me
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To: Pyro7480

My dad has hunted his whole life, and he is the gentlest, most decent, honest, industrious, etc. etc. person you'll ever meet.


11 posted on 11/22/2005 10:53:19 AM PST by ruthles (Just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean people aren't out to get you.)
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"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."

IT'S TRUE! I only married my wife because all the good elk were taken! /sarc

12 posted on 11/22/2005 10:54:35 AM PST by pgyanke (A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you have.)
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To: Pyro7480
Ok.

Now ask them how that applies to Native Americans and their culture.
13 posted on 11/22/2005 10:54:42 AM PST by pollyannaish
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To: Pyro7480

I maintain that liberals secretly beleive all this weird crap and are using freudian projection to hide their desires.

Wack jobs.


14 posted on 11/22/2005 10:55:18 AM PST by x5452
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To: Pyro7480

BWAHAHAHAHAHA! GRRRRRR! This would be hysterical if no one had to pay these idiots to do this crap. This kinda stuff is gonna make me schizoid! I wanna laugh my butt off, but I'm too angry


15 posted on 11/22/2005 10:55:59 AM PST by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ("Don't touch that thing")
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"erotic heterosexual predation, sadomasochism, restraint for aggressive sexual energy, and allied with the abuse of women."

Is THAT what they see in it?

They're SICK!!!!

16 posted on 11/22/2005 10:56:32 AM PST by Fido969 ("And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free" (John 8:32).)
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To: Pyro7480

Hmm, is this study saying that men's rage is never directed at lying, slandering, agenda-driven drivel produced at public expense?

Seems like a large flaw in the results to me.


17 posted on 11/22/2005 10:57:01 AM PST by wvobiwan (It's OUR Net! If you don't like it keep your stanky routers off it!)
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To: Pyro7480

"They...celebrate and glorify weapons, killing, and violence, laying the groundwork for the perpetuation of attitudes of domination, power, and control"

Weeeellll, sort of. 'Cept I might have rewritten it more like:

"Weapons which necessarily kill by violence, to take power or control of one's own fate by dominating the environment"

It's what homo sapiens do.

People who don't get that don't understand an essential part of what it means to be a human.


18 posted on 11/22/2005 10:57:08 AM PST by Gefreiter ("Are you drinking 1% because you think you're fat?")
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To: Pyro7480

anyone one want to bet these female professors are ugly as all get out? Anyone?


19 posted on 11/22/2005 10:57:53 AM PST by Dr Snide (vis pacem, para bellum - Prepare for war if you want peace)
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To: Pyro7480

Isn't Ted Nugent currently residing in Michigan? Either way, I'm sure he'll weigh in with some interesting comments soon enough.


20 posted on 11/22/2005 10:58:47 AM PST by FormerLib (Kosova: "land stolen from Serbs and given to terrorist killers in a futile attempt to appease them.")
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