1/11/2024 0 Comments Hunter girls game![]() The image is from The New York Times, illustrating an article on a low-fat hamburger. From my files, I could pull out the image of a sexy, anorexic cow, with bangles on her arm, with spots that look like a sports bra, holding a picture of a big, fat, old cow. Often, the media participate in this rather than commenting with horror on it. It offered a “Double D cup breast of turkey sandwich.” The ad went on to say, “… unless it’s on a sandwich.” And then there was the restaurant in Chicago. ![]() The visual was a white chicken with a black censored bar across its chest. ran a TV advertisement that began with the statement, “We can’t usually show large breasts on national television.” Recently, in California, burger restaurant chain Carl’s Jr. Women continue to be shown as animal-like the bodies and severed body parts of farm animals are made sexy. Since that time, things have only gotten worse. I identified how our culture sees women as meat, or at least has fun implying that they are, and sees animals eaten as meat as female. In that book, I proposed that there was a connection between violence against women and violence against animals. The strip joint, the hoax, the hunter and the fur salon represent the ephemera of popular culture that have shown up in my mailbox ever since my controversial book, “The Sexual Politics of Meat” appeared in 1990. It was a hoax, but this wasn’t: Referring to the dead boar he was straddling for a photograph for the Philadelphia Inquirer a few years ago, a hunter explained to the reporter, “I’ll grab it just like I grab my women.” Then there was the fur store that invited women to “Come in and get skinned beautifully.” A strip joint in Minneapolis used to offer a “Deer hunter’s special” during the fall, with the invitation to “Come check out our buck-naked girls.” A couple of years ago, “Hunting for Bambi” generated a lot of media attention with its supposed $10,000 hunting spree said to allow men to chase two naked women (except for sneakers) and try to shoot them with paintballs.
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