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Hunting for bambi

 
 
No star here laces
22:57 / 16.07.03
Hunting for Bambi is a new form of 'adult entertainment' becoming popular in Vegas where camo-clad men hide in bushes and try to shoot naked women with paintball guns.

No doubt there will be many interesting views on this important topic.
 
 
w1rebaby
01:08 / 17.07.03
Bah, it's all just a bit of fun, isn't it? And those girls get paid, don't they? Some of you PC types will get upset over anything.

I expect the usual clique will come along and complain about my freedom of speech now. Typical Barbelith behaviour. And before you say this is psychosexually fucked up... IT'S NOT.

Did I miss anything out?
 
 
Hieronymus
01:11 / 17.07.03
A hoax, perhaps?
 
 
MJ-12
01:13 / 17.07.03
Actually, I'd come across a link to this a couple of days ago and declined to post it, having come to the conclusion that there really not a whole lot of room for discussion. The news report is rather tame, compared to The company's site (which I don't reccommend visiting, unless you want all the joy to leave your core). It's an increadibly vile, bare-faced excercise in misogyny which would stun John Norman. The only only question lingering in my mind was how can someone so poorly socialized as to find this appealing be able to have the 10K disposable dollars to participate.
 
 
MJ-12
01:17 / 17.07.03
The "this is to sell their vids" aspect had occured to me, but that really only reduced the question to "how can someone so poorly socialized as to find this appealing be able to have the disposable $29.95 to buy it."
 
 
w1rebaby
01:20 / 17.07.03
I hadn't actually looked at the site before to be honest... that's definitely a hoax. Though the videos might be real - well, actually exist I mean, with fake contents.
 
 
Tryphena Absent
01:28 / 17.07.03
I think it's marvellous. Look at those women, they're not even suffering from malnutrition.
 
 
Thjatsi
02:41 / 17.07.03
It's not a hoax. I was just watching a news program where they interviewed the guy who created the business, and one of the females who participates. My impression of the founder was that he was intellectually lazy and a bit of a dick.

However, I can't react to his business with anything but apathy. I think shooting naked girls with paintguns is a lot less bizzare than other related b/d practices, or the concept of prostitution in general (which is legal in that state). Sure, it's a little odd, but as long as everyone is consenting, I don't consider this business to be unethical.
 
 
Jub
07:05 / 17.07.03
they're not allowed to wear protective clothing. we all know what happened to PJ off byker grove.
 
 
Sax
07:43 / 17.07.03
However, I would pay good money to watch fully-clothed women shooting fat American men. With paint or otherwise.
 
 
Mystery Gypt
07:49 / 17.07.03
christ, i think i'd rather be shot with a paintgun than give any of those guys a lapdance, if it came down to that choice (And apparently it has).

what i do find particullarly disturbing is this bit of ad copy about the video:

You’ll also see an actual road kill scene as a semi-truck takes out Bambi on the highway not to mention fat chicks fighting in the mud and much, much more.
 
 
Ganesh
09:08 / 17.07.03
No, firearms are in no way phallic substitutes for somewhat inadequate men. Nope. No way. No no no no no.
 
 
Bill Posters
11:55 / 17.07.03
Is there any reason why men should not hunt other men in such a way, or that women should hunt men in such a way, or indeed that it could be a dykey thing? In whatever case (unless I guess it was totally consenting adults, which it's obviously not), it's sick, IMHO, but life was ever thus, mais non? Just as said above, it's no sicker than a lot of sexworkplace exploitation.
 
 
Persephone
12:10 / 17.07.03
Something weird I heard about the paintball thing, you'd think that this is about the frisson of combat... but a friend of Husb's went to one of those paintball places & it was like full of these guys who go to paintball every weekend, and they have these, like, thousand-dollar paintball rifles with scopes & stuff. And they were all hunkered down and hiding behind bolsters. No one would come out. He and his brother only had rented paintball pistols --finally they got tired & just charged out, I think that the object was to cross the gym? Everyone emptied their rounds into them. Then it went as quiet as before.

Isn't that weird? Bunch of guys sitting quietly in a still gymnasium cradling their rifles? How do they know when to go home? Does a bell ring?
 
 
grant
13:55 / 17.07.03
Heheheh. The suckers broke cover. Odd that they'd *all* be snipers, but maybe they were counting on the new guys to lose patience.


That said, I wouldn't want to get hit by a paintball naked. That'd sting something fierce.

I used to play wargames out in this 13 acre vacant lot near my parents' house. It had trees and thickets and sandhills and clearings... everything you'd want.

I can't help but think anyone who's into doing that with a naked woman -- not only unarmed, but unarmored -- probably feels a lot of anxiety about women in general and sexual expression, especially. On the other hand, that whole hunter/hunted thing... there's a definite thrill there. I've been the rabbit before in a kind of impromptu hunt along those lines, and I remember laughing like hell (but silently). It's a lot like playing tag.

Which, if you've ever had a dog, you'll recognize as a very primal game. (My theory: there are three games dogs play - tag, keep-away, and catch. Every human sport can be broken down into those elements.)

The road kill bit, though, is pretty inexcusable.
 
 
Sax
14:01 / 17.07.03
A load of testosterone-fuelled blokes with (admittedly, play) guns, a remote woodland, naked women cast as victims and quarry... the whole thing has the potential to go rather nastily pear-shaped.
 
 
Ariadne
14:14 / 17.07.03
God, this is so annoying - I want to look at the link but it doesn't strike me as particularly suitable work viewing. What's the road kill bit, or is that a joke?
 
 
Sax
14:24 / 17.07.03
I think the story's been in most of the nationals this week, Ari, so it should be okay.
 
 
Ariadne
14:29 / 17.07.03
Ah! That'll teach me to read the newspapers.
 
 
grant
15:11 / 17.07.03
The "road kill bit" is in MysteryGypt's post, above.
 
 
grant
15:12 / 17.07.03
Oh, and the link is worksafe -- it's to a Nevada TV news report.
 
 
Thjatsi
16:03 / 17.07.03
Is there any reason why men should not hunt other men in such a way, or that women should hunt men in such a way, or indeed that it could be a dykey thing?

That's a really good idea. In fact, I think any one of us could stand to make a fair bit of money with either of these related activities. However, due to the unequal distribution between males and females interested in kinky activities, it may be better to have the males pay to be hunted, and give the females money based on how many stags they bring down. If any of you do decide to do this, it's important to consider the laws of supply and demand and adjust the payments accordingly.

I suspect that same sex shooting will also be a viable business.
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
16:25 / 17.07.03
This looks like a collosal fucking windup to me, but let's pretend for a moment that it is genuine.

Sure, it's perverted and sadistic but speaking as a sadistic pervert, I don't really have that much of a problem with the concept. The guy behind the site is a pathetic, immature woman-hater and his company is obviously targeting the pathetic, immature woman-hater market, but that's hardly unusual.

The thing that really gets my goat about this concept is the safely angle. Splat guns can take your eye out, you know, and a direct hit to the eye could in theory mean that the paintball might go through to the brain, killing the victim.

Even if there's no lasting harm done, paintballs sting like a bastard even if you're fully clothed. You can get massive bruises that last for ages.
 
 
Mr Tricks
17:14 / 17.07.03
(My theory: there are three games dogs play - tag, keep-away, and catch. Every human sport can be broken down into those elements.)

you forgot to mention TUG (of war?), though it could easilly be a part of keep-away.

there's also the classic who-humps-whom which I guess equates to wrestling... Pro or otherwise...
 
 
grant
19:14 / 17.07.03
Yeah, tug-of-war is basically when catch turns into keep-away. Who-humps-who is obviously tag, man.

And you're it.

The thing that really gets my goat about this concept is the safely angle. Splat guns can take your eye out, you know, and a direct hit to the eye could in theory mean that the paintball might go through to the brain, killing the victim.

On the last segment of the Nevada news thing at the link, they say they got bunches of emails from paintball people saying that very thing, and that now the dude running the event has models wear sneakers AND eye protection.
 
 
pomegranate
19:42 / 17.07.03
even if this is a joke, i just want to know:
is this truly the only planet i can live on?
 
 
Bill Posters
09:38 / 18.07.03
As an old skydiver once told me, "Gravity's a myth. This planet sucks."
 
 
Hieronymus
05:30 / 26.07.03
/Nelson laugh

Haha!
 
 
pointless and uncalled for
08:39 / 26.07.03
"I'll do everything I can to see this man is punished for trying to embarrass Las Vegas," Goodman said.

Clearly this man must be a workaholic.

I pissed that this is a hoax though, I've booked my tickets and everything. There's probably nothing else that I can do in Vegas that involves naked women. Maybe I can hitch a ride to Witchita.
 
 
Papess
18:40 / 26.07.03
How nice, a game based on my adolesence.
 
 
Papess
18:43 / 26.07.03
Oh and Mordant, it depends on the fire power of the air-gun. I have been hit with some that are like being dabbed with an airbrush while others have left me black and blue...and not with the effin' paint!

*and can I spell yet?* see above post
 
 
ibis the being
17:25 / 28.07.03
To me the most interesting aspect of this is the whole reporters-not-being-rigorous-about-truth aspect. I saw this story in a local paper and also on local news - complete with footage, t&a blurred out of course. Yet Snopes is saying these news clips are faked, and no one in the news media is really bothering to see if the story is actually true (Snopes says it's definitely a hoax, for those who didn't check the link). Too juicy to be subjected to actual research, I suppose.
 
 
Papess
17:59 / 28.07.03
No matter what Snopes says, I can assure you...



The paint washes off flesh much better than flannel.

This is much more fun when the naked women are armed too, however.
 
  
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