[VacuumJockey]

Mike Adams dissects feminist scholarship: Feminist scholars deride hunting and the good doctor takes them on (http://www.townhall.com/opinion/columns/mikeadams/2005/11/29/177027.html).
In the U.S. cultural landscape, the language of hunting is a discourse of patriarchy. Hunters’ attitudes and actions toward social and natural objects (weapons or hunted prey) are constructed by a combination of experiences and absorbed cultural messages that validate and exacerbate white male dominance and power. Further, the cultural construction of hunting as rooted in a symbolic system that values predation and dominance conjoins hunting and sex with women and animals.OK, but what does this then say about women hunters?

[griz]

As I started reading the article I copied a couple quotes to post here, each more outrageous than the last. Then I figured the author was right in that the reason people don't take these "gender scholars" seriously is because of what they write.

If one of your core beliefs is that the sky is falling, the fact that there is air all around you will be seen as evidence of your belief.

[c_yeager]

OK, but what does this then say about women hunters?


Clearly the feminists dont think that its a woman's place to hunt.

The hypocrisy of that is quite amusing, if you ask me.

There was a time when feminists demanded to have parity, equal opportunity to men. Old feminists would have demanded that hunter orange vests be made in sizes to fit women, and would have derided any attempt to imply that women were incabable of hunting just was well, if not better, than a man. Modern feminists feel that it is far important to give men a hard time than it is to provide actual opportunities to women.

[ACP230]

Even a lot of "old feminists" were hostile (or at most ambivalent about) guns, self-defense with weapons and hunting.

Their solutions to violence and crime always tended to stress top down reforms of society than individual solutions to problems.

[El Tejon]

Wonder what feminists think about nature then? What about critters like raptors (e.g. hawks, falcons) or lions where the females do the hunting and killing?

Or, in the insect world, what about female Black Widows or Praying Mantises?:D

[birddog]

I'll forward this one on to my wife when we get back from the range this afternoon, if we're not distracted by a late afternoon deer hunt which, if the rain stops, is a distinct possibility...She'll get a charge out of it. As for the "white male" thing, the black guys I know that hunt are going to be very disappointed that they don't belong out there, either.