No Girls Allowed
February 15, 2009
As a 9 year old boy girls were Yuk and it was easy to exclude them from our club. Then around the time I became a teenager the world changed and that girl that once was Yuk could ask me to do something and I’d forget my other friends to spend time with her. Since my early childhood I haven’t thought much about excluding girls so it is hard for me to fathom why women should be excluded from hunting.
The American Spectator ran an extremely sexist article about this very subject and has stirred the ire of a number of us who blog and enjoy the outdoors. I have over the years enjoyed a number of hunt camps with huntress. Our sport is a family oriented sport and while there maybe a few in our ranks that don’t see it that way the vast majority see it as part of our culture.
This past August I watched a couple of young ladies working skinning and field dressing bears. I’m sure some would find it odd but both of these young ladies were taking their boyfriends out during the Maine bear season to help them get their first bears. None of us found this unusual just what experienced hunters do to mentor new folks into our sport.
This year as I heard the call of the Tundra Swan I thought of my hunting buddy Darlene that was sadly absent from the hunt camp. Darlene was a hunter and I loved to hear her tell us about her deer season or to watch the home videos of her hunts.
Hunters’ that exclude women from the sport are only hurting themselves. We need as many good people in our ranks as we can possible get. So let’s not exclude them like little boys do.
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“So let’s not exclude them like little boys do”.
Amen to that!
Great post. Thank you for taking part in the challenge.