bbq wrote:10-Year-Old Girl Slays 800-Pound Gator with Perfect Crossbow Shot
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/10/06/10-year-old-girl-slays-800-pound-gator-with-perfect-crossbow-shot/
Yet another Kendall Jones / Walter Palmer in the making.
Well she was probably fed the milk that was to produce as rabidly as possible a 400 lb calf. A dysfunctional accultured consequence of our herd mentality were our offspring hormones are thrown off. Another child flying on the back of the herd that puts the herd first before the individual. It sounds like she is competition of her male peers.
Aloha, Patty
This is from "The World Peace Diet" by Will Tuttle:
The Emotional Miseducation of Boys
For example, a best-selling book entitled Raising Cain: Protecting the Emotional Life of Boys, written by two experienced psychologists, contains a wealth of understanding about the enormous suffering boys experience in our culture, but it does not and cannot begin to address the underlying causes of this suffering rooted in our socially approved brutalization of animals for food.
The authors, Kindlon and Thompson, build a powerful case that boys in our culture are emotionally damaged by our culture’s male stereotypes of toughness, and that these wounds not only cause them misery but warp them for life and cause enormous suffering to females as well. The two authors blame the culturally imposed image of stoic, unfeeling masculinity as the fundamental cause of boys’ pain and stress. They document and discuss how boys are taught to disconnect from their feelings by cultural forces on every side: their parents, their teachers, cultural institutions, the media, and each other. They call the culture of adolescent boys “the culture of cruelty” and write powerfully about the emotional devastation caused by the psychological and physical cruelty and teasing that boys inflict on each other.
The book offers poignant glimpses into the rage, pain, despair, shame, hopelessness, depression, numbness, and embattled solitude that boys experience, making the connections between these inner emotional torments and the outer problems of adolescent suicide (the third leading cause of death), drinking, drugs, illicit sex, violence, and cruelty. As a solution, it emphasizes that we need to “provide boys models of male heroism that go beyond the muscular, the self-absorbed, and the simplistically heroic,”9 that we need to be more understanding of boys, use less harsh discipline, and encourage them to express and connect with their feelings.
Yet Raising Cain makes a contribution that is acceptable to the herding culture in which we live, for it never makes the connection with the real source of the “emotional miseducation” of boys, which is our cultural practice of eating cruelly confined and slaughtered animals. Ironically, in order to build rapport with boys they work with, the two researchers often have lunch with them and may take them out for hamburgers.10 Neither these omnivores nor their omnivorous culture, it seems, can begin to make the deeper connections between the violence we impose on animals and the “emotional miseducation” of our youth, particularly boys. Nor do they recognize the more obvious surface connections, for example that boys are generally pushed to eat animal flesh—and thus to identify themselves as predatory and privileged—more than girls are. Boys are also more commonly hardened by being encouraged to deceive and attack animals through hunting and fishing activities. Even if they could see these connections, though, the authors probably knew better than write about them in a book that they and their publishers hoped would make the best-seller list. It seems that the shadow of animal food cruelty is too enormous and dangerous to be faced directly by the mass consciousness of our culture, though in order to evolve as a culture, this is precisely what we are called to do.
The entire testimony of Kindlon and Thompson in Raising Cain reflects profound and obvious evidence that the herding culture mentality of domination, exclusion, and cruelty to animals that forces boys to disconnect from their feelings is alive and well today, so that like their fathers and their fathers before them, boys can grow up to kill competing herders, vie for power through the accumulation of livestock/capital and, at the end of the day, eat the flesh and/or secretions of their confined and killed animals as a ritual celebration. What drives this entire heartless enterprise, generation after generation, so that we are powerless not just to challenge it but even to recognize and discuss it intelligently? The cruelty we routinely inflict on animals haunts our boys and the cycle continues, ravaging the earth, the generations, and the landscape of our feelings.
Tuttle PhD, Will (2008-01-29). The World Peace Diet (p. 239). Lantern Books. Kindle Edition.
