I don’t hunt. I’m all for the three day drinking trip however.
… otherwise known as the Blind Taste Test.
And then, I can eat it, and throw up some more, thus making more food! I’m magic!
…Eeyugh.
I teach hunter education so I have a sort of built-in bias but I love looking at a class and seeing lots of “minorities” including women and girls outnumbering the “average white guys” sitting there. Roughly 10% of the population loves hunting and roughly 10% wants to see all hunting stopped. The surest way we can keep the 80% leaning partly towards “our side” is to make the classification “hunter” as diverse as possible.
Favorite hunting “party” I ever met was a 60something Grandmother and her 15 or so Granddaughter. Gramma grew up on a farm and knew how to track and skin, granddaughter loved the time with gramma and learning things her friends didn’t know. Between the two they had one firearm and traded it back and forth from shot to shot. Worked it that way for several seasons until a chance came their way to each have a firearm. They were as “untypical” as you can get and I hope to see more and more in the future.
Perhaps, but they are easily distracted if you roll golden apples in front of them.
If the rabbit was about to hop onto the car such that the center of gravity would then be shifted more towards the chasm. Was that so hard?
Your opinion isn’t necessarily sexist in my opinion, it depends on how you act because of it. When you see a picture that a woman posted of her standing over her kill, what do you do? It would be sexist if you posted something about how it makes her unattractive. It wouldn’t be sexist if you commented on women’s and men’s pictures about how the bloody kill picture was gross and we don’t need to see it; it might annoy people but it wouldn’t be sexist. If you only commented on women’s pictures about how it’s gross, but didn’t comment on the men’s, then that would be somewhat sexist. If you don’t post any comments on any hunting pictures, but just think to yourself about how it’s unattractive, then I don’t think that’s too terrible.
My mom started hunting a few years ago. As near as I can tell, she enjoys the everloving crap out of it. It means I get to eat more duck and deer than I used to so I’m down with it.
I don’t usually worry about the attractiveness of my friends’ stuff on facebook. I’m usually more interested in their happiness.
I think if you find women hunters unattractive in the same way you might find, for example, women with short hair or women who do weightlifting unattractive, as a matter of personal taste, I don’t think it’s sexist.
If you find women hunters unattractive because women shouldn’t hunt because they should be pursuing more “womanly” activities, I would say, yes, that is sexist.
I think it spurs from my dislike of the “country/redneck” culture that surrounds me in general. I’m just not a fan. I know it’s not fair to lump everyone together but I quite a few “dumb” rednecks who all happen to be hunters and maybe I, unfairly, associate all hunters with the mouth breathing rednecks I know. Those redneck guys are married to the redneck girls and they all go and get stuck in the mud on weekends and I don’t get it. I think I’m more destined for city life I guess.
No, I think it’s a preference thing, I don’t think it’s a matter of “they should be in the kitchen, not huntin’!”
It is rather sexist that you single out the women; it seems in reality you object to the hunting culture in general (as you perceive it ) and it’s nothing to do with women. You seem to articulate that its “worse” for a woman to be a redneck than a man; =sexist.
I have no problem with hunting as long as it’s for the meat & skin and not for trophies, people handle their guns safely, etc. Once when I was broke as fuck a friend gave me a ton of deer meat her husband hunted and it saved my budget for real. I don’t see anything wrong with hunting in and of itself.
How else are you going to find enough food for your starving family in District 12?
I’m a woman, and I hunt. My husband hunts, and our daughter hunts. We thoroughly enjoy it. We don’t hunt for a trophy. We hunt for food, and use what we kill. We don’t kill more than we need.
We really like our camo, as well.
But, if the rabbit exhales the right way on the from of the car, it could be pushed back onto the road. And we could say that rachellogram was saved by a hare’s breath.
I agree with the OP. I used to live in a small town and during hunting season, I hated to see the many many pics in the local paper of grinning, smug, proud people holding up the lifeless heads of deer, but I ESPECIALLY hated to see gleeful women and little girls doing it. The ultimate was when my pregnant daughter-in-law made herself some camo maternity clothes and jokingly tied pillows to her stomach to muffle the gunshots.
My late husband was a hunter and I’m not against responsible, reverent hunting.
I despise all forms of showing off “trophies.” Absolutely disgusting, inhumane, and disrespectful to the animal whose life you took (when you had an unfair advantage).
Can you please explain to me why you hate it especially when a woman or little girl does it?
Yeah, I’m at a loss as to why someone’s genitals makes a difference here.
Like MOL, I’m curious about that bit after ESPECIALLY as well.
I will also slightly question the “unfair advantage” part. Considering that most hunters get out maybe 5 days a year and don’t practice much more than that, the wild animals are not without their resources and abilities. Add to that the number of us who choose primitive weapons ----- the “chase” (as its worded by the PA Game Commission) is pretty close to fair.
Photos of whoever and what they harvested? Done with some taste, I have no problem with it. That way even after the steaks are done and the buckskin worn out, you have something left to remember and honor that particular animal by. I can even hack most mounts I’ve seen. Just don’t dress them up silly, go for graphic poses or anything like that.
I feel the same way about women hunters as I do about men hunters. I’m perfectly OK with it as long as the gun is properly registered or licensed and they eat or otherwise use what they kill, and if they do not use it as an excuse to neglect their families or avoid household responsibilities.
I used to have a Facebook friend (I unfriended her for other reasons) who regularly posted pictures of herself with deer she’d shot, and my old boss very proudly displayed a picture of his 15-year-old granddaughter with her first deer. He added that she performed in “The Nutcracker” later that day.
Last year, another FBF posted a picture of her husband in his deer stand, and for the first time, they took their daughter, now 5, along. They look forward to the time when she’s old enough to join them for a full-fledged hunt.
I do not hunt or fish myself. It’s just not my thing.