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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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To: Pyro7480

"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.


121 posted on 11/22/2005 1:38:51 PM PST by ZULU (Fear the government which fears your guns. God, guts, and guns made America great.)
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To: Pyro7480

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.


122 posted on 11/22/2005 1:54:09 PM PST by combat_boots (Dug in and not budging an inch. NOT to be schiavoed, greered, or felosed as a patient)
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To: osagebowman; LSAggie; g'nad
Ping to stupid academic study!

Great big honking, barking, raving moonbat warning!

123 posted on 11/22/2005 2:00:34 PM PST by Rose in RoseBear (HHD [... bark-flap ...])
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To: Pyro7480
I suspect Mike Adams will be all over this.

And not like that, either!

124 posted on 11/22/2005 2:14:28 PM PST by George Smiley (This tagline deliberately targeted journalists.)
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To: Wiser now

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.


125 posted on 11/22/2005 2:16:27 PM PST by pollyannaish
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To: pollyannaish
But boy would these ladies get their panties in a bunch over the "symbolism" in there. Phew.

Assuming they wear any. Or shave their pits.

126 posted on 11/22/2005 2:22:10 PM PST by George Smiley (This tagline deliberately targeted journalists.)
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To: Pyro7480; girlangler

"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.


127 posted on 11/22/2005 3:22:58 PM PST by Diana in Wisconsin (Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
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To: Pyro7480

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.


128 posted on 11/22/2005 3:25:09 PM PST by arthurus (Better to fight them over THERE than over HERE.)
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To: Rose in RoseBear; osagebowman; LSAggie
they might be ontuh sumthin'... I mean, I beat mrsnad every day when I ain't huntin'...

stupid collegiate liberal idjits...

129 posted on 11/22/2005 3:32:01 PM PST by g'nad
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To: Rose in RoseBear; g'nad; Sam Cree

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. :-)


130 posted on 11/22/2005 4:15:00 PM PST by osagebowman ((Help us support our troops! - http://freeper.the-hobbit-hole.net/))
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To: ElkGroveDan

I know professors like that. Smug, condescending to conservative students, and armed to the teeth with their stupid agenda.


131 posted on 11/22/2005 5:13:07 PM PST by TheSpottedOwl ("President Bush, start building that wall"!)
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To: osagebowman

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.


132 posted on 11/22/2005 6:38:39 PM PST by Sam Cree (absolute reality)- "Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one." Albert Einstein)
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To: Pyro7480

Three women in Michigan who can't get laid!


133 posted on 11/22/2005 6:48:36 PM PST by Redleg Duke (9/11 - "WE WILL NEVER FORGET!")
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To: Dr Snide

Probably look like janet reno on crack!


134 posted on 11/22/2005 7:26:35 PM PST by BigTom85 (Proud Gun Owner and Member of NRA)
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To: Redleg Duke
According to this line of crap our ancestors never hunted so they had food, it was all a sexual thing. What a crock!!!!!
I hunt with a rifle, handgun, muzzle loader, and my bow. Let me see, I must be having an orgy, all by myself.
The part that I find the funniest is that they think every time a man speaks of something big, as in big-uns, we are talking about females. That is one of the most arrogant statements I have ever heard. Otherwise than my wife, females for sexual gratification are not part of my thought process. In other words I don't think about stupid professors, who teach crap, as sexual objects. The stereotype that they are trying to hang on male hunters is insulting and only goes to show their bigotry and deep seated male hate.
Since my mother was a hunter, and my wife and daughters all hunt, does that make them male??? Logic is a not understood foreign language to these three idiots.
135 posted on 11/22/2005 7:46:11 PM PST by oldenuff2no
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To: oldenuff2no

"Vegetarian" An old Indian word which means "Lousy Hunter"!


136 posted on 11/23/2005 5:35:17 AM PST by Redleg Duke (9/11 - "WE WILL NEVER FORGET!")
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To: lightingguy

LOL!


137 posted on 11/23/2005 7:22:47 AM PST by agrace (Where were you when I founded the earth? Tell me if you know so much. Job 38:4)
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To: Pyro7480

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.


138 posted on 11/23/2005 7:37:20 AM PST by Freedom4US
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