Hunting Confirmed?

Posted on July 24, 2003 in Folly Watch Morals & Ethics Sexuality

Dare I quote a magazine whose readership has been likened to white supremacists recently here at Pax Nortona? Ms. Magazine quotes a KLAS-TV reporter:

“Channel Eight Eyewitness News reporter LuAnne Sorrell went back to the scene, and asked [Michael] Burdick directly if he had staged the hunt for the cameras, to which Burdick replied, ‘No. I’ll tell you I wish I was that cleaver (sic).’

“He admits that five weeks ago he kicked off his web site only to sell his videos, but, he says, in only days, men were calling and emailing saying ‘I want to be in a video, I want to hunt one of the girls, that would be awesome. I’ll pay lots of money.’ He continued, ‘the hunt you went on was exactly the eighteenth hunt. We have done 20 hunts since you, and we’ve booked one for Friday and Saturday.’

“To verify Burdicks (sic) comments, we contacted the company that hosts the HuntingForBambi web site. That California company, asked us not to use their name, but confirmed that they had actually processed orders for several so-called ‘hunts’ in the past and they continue to get new orders in.” […]

I decided to check this report against the alledged web site and found that it isn’t so alledged after all as Pen and Jeremy have cautioned that it might be. Visit it yourself or peruse this screenshot of the page that comes up when you click on the “Book a Hunt” link. It seems that not only is it real, but the price has come down.

I must at this point address the “it’s the woman’s body” retort that has come my way at Acts of Conscience where I posted the original article. Donna insists that it is the woman’s choice to engage in this.* But is it? Two words came to mind almost immediately when I read about the seemingly willing participation of the woman: Stockholm Syndrome. The link says it all, down to the necessity of compassion for the woman who does this. Living in this world of violence pornography, surrounded by men who love it, can we really say that she is making a fully informed choice?

It’s a good question. A damned good question.

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* I find it interesting that I though I made no attack on the woman, but on the men who sell this service and the men who buy this service that I was attacked for denying the woman the right to sell her body. See my comments about the Stockholm Syndrome above. For the record, I see the woman as a victim.

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Addendum: a fascinating site (linked above) that rebuts the “Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus” philosophy of John Gray and his followers. Intelligent commentary with plenty of discussion of sociological studies and what they show the case to really be.