Myles, on 31 October 2012 - 04:40 PM, said:
I guess you should say "drunk yuppie" or "drunk city slicker" when comparing to the "drunk redneck" comment.
I'm not from the south and I don't hunt, but I still think it is insulting to refer to hunters as drunk rednecks.
I agree. I hear it
all the time, as if all hunters are crazy foolish trigger happy derelicts. I come from (after marrying) "redneck" country and hunting country and we even call a few of our brethren "rednecks". I just hate hearing how all southerners or all hunters are an uneducated irresponsible gun crazy lot.
People have this vision of every time a hunter goes hunting he's all about guns blazing and dodging bullets. He and his buddies
Band of Brother it into the woods then
Hamburger Hill it up into their deer stands. After an exhausting battle they leave in
Saving Private Ryan mode retrieving their wounded and dead brethren. And are such fools, they do it all again the next day, maybe with a couple 13-yr-olds in tow
Gettysburg style.
Edited by QuiteContrary, 31 October 2012 - 06:34 PM.