Hunting for Pussies
Posted by Ceri Davies Fri, 14 Jan 2005 22:22:00 GMT
I was watching the National Geographic channel and a program called “Killer Leopards” was showing. It was about the Indian Leopard, its endangerment and the problems being experienced with the leopards apparently stalking and killing villages and farmers.
During this program they showed a number of photographs of hunters, who had taken it upon themselves to kill the troublesome leopards, with their kills. Whilst I’m not naive enough to consider myself able to comment on whether this is right or not (after all, the program was only an hour long), it did make me wonder: hunting used to be a rite of passage into adulthood, and was generally regarded as a sign of manhood because it was fucking difficult and you had to be just a little bit rock hard.
Now, you only have to be in the blind by 4pm, and that just is wrong.
If proof were needed, check it out. Even a bad drawing of some dude spearing a deer is more hardcore than the loser on the right:
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