I
told myself I would never do this again. I have been reading the Miley Cyrus
rants and reviewing the current and on-going female representation in hunting via
social media’s ether, by labeling certain females as role models of hunting.
I
was disappointed. Was there a light somewhere in the smog of hunting that shows
one female had finally diverted from the it’s all about me, hate the anti’s,
and how dare you fellow hunter question me and my antics?
I
removed my glasses and massaged my temples before humorously setting about
finding this person. I was a little astounded by what I found-because of the
one.
My
thinking was: if I peruse the role model females’ pages in the mildest sense
of research-there should not be a problem. That is what a role model is for-a
template for someone not accustomed to what something should be to help them
mimic it.
I
saw the insulting quote post about looking at a page one too many times. If you
wanted celebrity, then you shouldn’t have a problem having people look at it
100 times. What is up with the baiting posts?
Is
that not what you wanted? Is it to the point, the page holder feels confident
in mistreating anyone cruising through because the page itself represents a
target for some? The page has a bait post to drag someone in for
confrontation-so it is set up to catch sensitive types that have to post with
knee jerk reactions.
I
think of addiction-the addict gets use to a certain drug or liquor, and hits
the poison of choice everyday not realizing the damage it is doing to their
brain, body, and soul. Everyone around this poor soul is saying to them, this
is detrimental to you-why don’t you stop? You watch them tip the bottle back,
or crack open their chemistry set of narcotics to issue a dose-then off to
lala-land they go; dead to the world and your warnings.
Right
now, there are certain female hunting role models that do not realize the
damage they are doing to themselves and anyone looking up to them. They rebuke
intelligent recourse, and some of those interactions are probably negative
which makes them ear-blind.
They
are in a blind but they’re blind.
This
is not about how the female hunting role model goes out and does her physical
hunting, or her mentality when participating. It is about the behavior of a human
being that disregards fellow hunters’ observations on their behavior and how it
is detrimental to what they are trying to achieve. The garbled message people
are comprehending and following in behind is lost to the four winds.
I
had to stop looking at all this hunting squalor because it makes me feel like I
am watching bad chintz wallpaper peel. It is boring too, because the articles
are all the same.
If
I want reality, I’ll mosey on over to Meateater. I can live with Steve and his
wormy attitude.
I
looked up four female hunters that are considered to some extent female role
models. I went by their Facebook pages, ergo some of them had twitter accounts
with the same information but varying followers.
Huntress
No. 1
%
Self-promotion
%
Out-sourced advertising
%
Politics and Political Views
%
Inflammatory-Insulting posts geared toward groups not supportive of hunting
%
arguments with fellow hunters
Huntress
No. 2
%
Animal Rights Activist-Hunter Shenanigans
%
Epic, My Life is so much more epic than yours posts
%
Out-sourced posts from random pages not self-generated
%
Nothing about the actual person except photos
%
Inflammatory-insulting posts geared toward groups not supportive of hunting
Huntress
No. 3 (she’s been trying to get famous since she had her moles removed off her
face)
%
Self-promotion
%
Inflammatory-insulting posts geared toward groups not supportive of hunting
%
allows multiple attacks on fellow hunters if they are foreign female hunters
Huntress
No. 4
%
Self-promotion
0 %
inflammatory-insulting posts geared toward groups not supportive of hunting
%
Promoting hunting for women, children, and education
*Finally
learned the power of good Public Relations and filtering the crap from the
cream. Guess who this No. 4 is?
I
wonder. Why it is important to entertain a conversation when it is based around
negative rhetoric?
I
won’t lie. Some of these women make me want to gag-gagging the rainbow.
I
see posts saying, “Do your research, learn about wildlife conservation…”, but
you do not see the research being displayed on these women’s pages.
You
want that information; you have to read Ecology, National Wildlife, Wildlife
Conservation Magazine, State wildlife Magazines, or Ranger Rick.
I digress;
I don’t have to bash any of these females. That door was opened by them the
moment they took to social media, and the world started throwing punches and
shooting fire arrows at them.
No.
4 was Melissa Bachman. I perused her Facebook page and actually like it, when
before I didn’t. It is more professional and the negativity has been drained
from it. It was good to see at least one problemed female taking her public relations
and image seriously, while putting the focal point on her abilities, performance
and outreach instead of being the visual victim of attacks with pomp and circumstance
through self-generated altercations.
Some
hunters want to articulate to these top-notch celebrity figures that the
behavior and the actions are causing the problem-but fear being excluded and
branded a hunting heretic.
Does anyone remember the election? I didn't get the memo to vote, did you?
Does anyone remember the election? I didn't get the memo to vote, did you?
I
would not have voted any of these people as role models, celebrities, or
even representatives of the Hunting sport. It is shameful to say the least, and
that is the women-some of the men are just as bad.
If
you want to do Hunting a favor, hunters need to stand up to this kind of
behavior. Hunters need to let these hunters,voted by unknown sources as the representation of the hunting sport, be informed by the masses that what
is being publicly advertised and displayed as examples of hunting participants is not consistently true of the vast number of diverse hunters. It is direly erroneous.
It
is a misrepresentation of the diversity and quality of hunters everywhere.
I
want to know when this crap is going to stop being a thing.
Written
by: Cryptic Angelia and W Harley Bloodworth
