Bambi and hunting

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Poll question: Bambi and hunting

I'm female, so while this question might affect some women/girls, I don't feel I really count in this poll, but I was wondering about it anyhow.

I was a kid when I first saw Bambi, around 10, and I guess it shocked the hell out of me. I'm sure it wasn't the only factor, but it did contribute to my hatred of hunting, though there were others through the years.

What about anyone else? Did Bambi in any way contribute to a hatred of hunting for you? And do you think it influenced you because of your age when you saw it?

[flvegan]

1. By "hunting" you mean "shooting and killing" right?

I think shooting and killing is pretty wrong in almost every circumstance where it's not to save/salvage another's life. I don't recall having seen Bambi when I was a youth, so I doubt it influenced me. As far back as I can remember, as long as I've known the term "hunting" I've detested it.

Bet I get some juicy flames from this.

[Chan790]

13. We're of the same mind...except I saw Bambi and it contributed.

I grew up in the boonies and some of my earliest memories consist of peeing all over the woods to drive the deer back into the state forest where hunting is illegal and destroying hunting blinds and treestands. Now I leave antagonistic notes too: "Hey, took your treestand as a trophy." or "LOLZ, I polluted your blind." (Advice: BYOTP. Leaves itch.)

We have a huge poaching problem here, particularly assholes hunting from the back of quads and ATVs. I fucking hate hunters, but the poachers are a class of themselves. There isn't a word to describe them, nor any sort of karma good enough for them. Every once in a while, one will get arrested and then I make sure to have assemble a cheering section for their booking. Nothing beats the "Walk of Shame" when 25 people show-up to cheer, taunt and watch your perp-walk. As soon as I get my new camera, I'm going to start taking pictures to hang on a "Wall of Assholes".

There...now you won't be the only one getting juicy flames.

Edit: I need to point out that nobody hunting in one of the wealthiest parts of CT is subsistence hunting. It's mostly trophy killing. Some of these assholes just take the heads and feet, leaving the rest of the deer lying there in the woods to rot and stink.

[flvegan]

14. Uh, hold on...

you took part in polluting blinds and...and...taking out treestands?

You may well be my new favorite DUer.

[Critters2]

2. I saw it when I was under twelve, I dislike hunting, but

I'm not sure the two things are related. Never thought about the ethics of it until much later.

[PeaceNikki]

3. I respect hunters a trillion times more than factory farmers.

And it never occcured to me to dislike hunting/hunters because of a Disney flick.

[TZ]

4. I've never liked hunting

But I never connected it to Bambi.

[mokawanis]

5. It had an impact

I grew up in a family of hunters and always hated it. I used to go hunting with my dad and brother and intentionally miss every shot I took, then I finally just announced I was done hunting. I'm a guy who hates hunting and guns.

[skygazer]

6. It contributed to my hatred of Disney movies

My dad hunted and we were poor. We ate what he brought home. My dad and the people I knew didn't blast any creature in sight for the sheer hell of it. They didn't fire until they could make a killing shot and they hunted for food.

I detest trophy hunting and people who find it "fun" to kill things. But that's not what I knew growing up.

[Doug.Goodall]

7. I don't like hunting, and I absolutely HATE guns

[Rabrrrrrr]

8. Saw it when I was a child - 8 or 9, maybe - and had no effect. Loved hunting, still do.

But I grew up with a great many hunters in the family, and had seen plenty of dead deer before seeing Bambi.

My emotional response was somewhere in the realm of "Well, that's the way it goes sometimes."

Plus, being a smart person, I knew it was animated film. I also never went around looking for talking rabbits.

[DarkTirade]

9. Didn't affect me.

Hunting IMO is for reasons of eating only. And since I've never needed to hunt to eat, I've never hunted.

[Inchworm]

10. I had an opposite experience

I was in central florida when the deer overpopulated and became diseased, underweight, and overall sad looking.

I think hunting is ok, BUT.. only if you are going to eat what you shoot. None of that sport stuff. It's weird because I feel the same way about fishing.

I'm up in the mountains of NC where deer season is like a community event. I've never really hunted or fished but was around many who did. When I went fishing or hunting with people I used it as an excuse to get lost in the woods by myself or with dogs and just soak it all in.

I am aware I'm an oddball thinking that way here, but hey.. it's me.

:hi:

[supernova]

11. I saw Bambi and I'm OK with subsistence hunting

I like Bambi; it's a sweet movie.

I also see nothing wrong with people needing to eat using what nature provides. And yes, some of my neighbors are/have been that poor.

[existentialist]

12. I saw Bambi and I think that wild venison is among the best meat I've ever eaten.

Right up there with wild elk and wild pheasant.