Hunting Sense

For quite some time I’ve came across ‘Hunting for Bambis’ while doing hunting searches on Google. I had never clicked on it because the title alone brings to mind anti-hunting sentiments based on Disney’s classic animated film. Well, I finally clicked on it this morning. Boy, was I surprised!

There isn’t one bit of anti-hunting propaganda on the site. In fact, there is little to do with what most sportsmen would consider traditional hunting at all. For them, ‘Bambis’ are what they call naked women that men pay 5-10 thousand dollars to hunt with paintball guns in the deserts surrounding Las Vegas.

I should have left right away, but at the top of the main site, they have a picture of a deer saying it’s about time hunters started hunting the naked women instead of them. Right then I realized that the site had a huge potential to reflect negatively on real hunters. So, I read on a bit and my fears were confirmed.

It is by no means a new thing… it’s been around since 2003. So all this time they have been helping in further tainting of the image of hunters. The comments they make on their home page referring to hunters and avid outdoorsmen does nothing but reconfirm the image that many people have of hunters as nothing more than gun-toting, beer-guzzling, shoot-anything, chauvinistic morons.

If that wasn’t bad enough, it over-all reflects negatively on males in general. Isn’t it bad enough that in nearly all venues of television and movies, that men are written as the stereotypical male pig with little regard to women? Men like the one responsible for ‘Hunting for Bambis’, Michael Burdick (who is listed as a Master Hunter on the site), is the reason both men and hunters get the reputation they do.

All I can say is that I’m disgusted beyond any further words.

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