Maggie's Farm

Reposted from November, 2005

Ya gotta leave it to female professors to come up with something like this: MSU Professors link Hunting with Sexual Violence.

This came to me via Bird Dog via a hunting friends of his, and I had to laugh, it was so stupid and ignorant - and yet so earnestly and academically so. But they don't seem to understand guy-talk.

As Maggie's readers know, I am an avid hunter and shooter, and know plenty of other women who are, and not one of us is a violent sexual pervert, or even a latent one. While it is probably true that most or all men contain a latent rapist deep inside (along with latent everything else), to connect hunting with rape is the same kind of misunderstanding of depth psychology that views knitting as a masturbation equivalent.

There are many hard-wired instincts, and many sources of pleasure and satisfaction, and it is ridiculously reductionistic to connect all pursuits to the sexual instincts...not that there is anything wrong with them. 

But, on the subject of biological instincts, should I assume that this hunting "sexual perversion" applied during the million years of hunting which kept the human line alive, as well as to our Pilgrim forefathers and their Indian pals? And that it applies to all other species with predatory instincts, including fish and birds? All nasty perverts? Or does it only apply to Michigan bow hunters?

I am not going to get into the depth psychology of this - the subjects of the instincts, pleasure, unconscious fantasy, sublimation, etc. I would simply say that obviously these professor gals' Dads or brothers never took them shooting and hunting. Too bad. Guess they'll just miss out on an excitingly twisted form of sexual stimulation.

So I'll say to these prof gals - lighten up, work on your senses of humor, and find a better target for your sadistic sexual instincts other than wholesome guys and gals in the woods with their dogs, or bows, or guns, having a good old wholesome and traditional American time in the cool breeze amongst the falling leaves.

(Photo is of the famous academic feminist "The Maid of the Marsh," who is doubtless stalking hapless duck hunters in order to sexually abuse and sadistically enjoy them - at gunpoint, if necessary. Please pick me, honey!)