Jeanine Elias says women make good hunters because she believes they're more patient than men, and their expectations are lower.
"They don't have this idea of, 'I got to have this perfect rack on my wall,' " Elias said. "When I go hunting, I'm not looking for the perfect rack on a deer. I'm looking for meat."
Oh, the soft bigotry of lowered expectations. (I'm not sure that's relevant here. I just like saying it. It's the best thing that ever came out of Dubya's mouth by a long shot.)
How's this for a trend: Increasingly, I'm getting really bloody tired of all these backhanded compliments, all this noble-savage talk about women being superior at basically everything because of some trumped-up essential quality we are universally presumed to possess. And the sloppy use of the word "exponentially" in news reports. I'm getting tired of that, too.
Depart from us, NPR, we never knew ye.
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That's the sexiest story ever, what with talks of forgoing perfect racks for meat. Is this about cougar hunters? Not hunters of cougars, but hunters who are cougars? It's driving me crazy!
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