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Laws to permit the colour "blaze pink" for hunters have been proposed in five states in the US. How did this become a legislative trend?
As the legislative session drew to a close last week at the Minnesota state capitol, a curious piece of legislation became the focus of ire for lawmakers - a bill to make something called "blaze pink" legal for hunters to wear.
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Last spring, Wisconsin Representative Nick Milroy had the idea that "blaze pink" might also be an acceptable safety colour as well as a way to get some new blood into the sport.He even got a textile scientist at a local university to investigate whether there were any safety concerns.
"The fastest growing segment in new recruits into hunting are females, and that's one of the big reasons that companies have been marketing things like pink camouflage, pink guns, pink knives," he says.
Participation in hunting in the US has been on the decline for decades, and the sport is overwhelmingly dominated by men.
Safety Orange to become Safety Pink?
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday May 29 2016, @11:11AM
Judging strictly by demand for pink-rather-than-orange camo hats given out by the company a couple of my friends work for as freebies, chicks who dig camo dig pink camo. They in fact currently have unfilled requests because they had to get more made.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Sunday May 29 2016, @11:17AM
Heh - I walked past a television some years back. Stupid action movie, lots of shooting, hordes of people being killed - one side wearing blue "camo" the other side wearing red "camo". And, I actually stopped to watch it for a minute or two. WTF? The whole purpose of camoflage, is to remain unseen.
Alright, so deer don't see the same colors that people do. Neither do I. Red, orange, or pink, if you stand motionless among the greenery, I probably won't see you. Especially in the autumn, when the foliage is ready to fall off the trees. Blue? Yeah, I'm gonna see you. Maybe they should have considered a nice electric blue for hunting.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 29 2016, @02:36PM
Nearly all mammals, deer included, have 2-color vision. It's like people with extreme red-green color blindness. Blue is easy to spot.
Primates are 3-color. Sea mammals are 1-color.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Sunday May 29 2016, @02:56PM
I guess I knew that. I read an article not long ago, about deer being able to see clothing clearly after being washed. Brighteners leave a residue which reflects ultraviolet, which from the deer's point of view, makes the hunter glow in the dark.
http://www.atsko.com/how-to-check-camo-and-orange-for-uv-glow/ [atsko.com]
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 29 2016, @03:26PM
At least the deer won't shoot a you.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 29 2016, @04:36PM
How not to be seen [youtube.com].
(Score: 1) by Francis on Sunday May 29 2016, @07:47PM
Red and blue cammo like that would be of extremely limited utility, but if you're in an area where there's a ton of blues or reds, those uniforms might actually be worthwhile. Usually it's more about appearance than actual utility like it would be for proper cammo.
But, as other folks have mentioned, it's not the colors that make cammo cammo, it's the pattern on them. Hence why the US military now uses digital cammo where they can take the several most common colors in an area and turn them into new colors for the battlefield without having to spend a lot of time figuring out how to arrange it.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 29 2016, @06:49PM
My experience agrees with this as well... there is a significant market of women shooters who love pink. Pink clothes, pink guns, pink anything. I attribute this to the fact that recreational shooting is a sausage-party and all the gear tends look a certain way for that market. Making something pink marks it female and is a way for women shooters to have something "for them" that is visibly differentiated from the gear their boyfriends, husbands, brothers, or sons use; it is a way to be feminine in an environment that is mostly male.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday May 29 2016, @07:39PM
And also, girls just like pink. It's a stereotype for a reason.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Monday May 30 2016, @12:28PM
http://www.npr.org/2014/04/01/297159948/girls-are-taught-to-think-pink-but-that-wasnt-always-so
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(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday May 30 2016, @12:37PM
I didn't say it was genetic. Times change and in these times chicks dig pink.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 30 2016, @06:35PM
(Score: 1) by Francis on Sunday May 29 2016, @07:43PM
There's other ways of making firearms for women that isn't so sexist. Perhaps designing the weapon to better fit in smaller hands and adjusting the proportions involved for smaller people.
If there's actually women requesting pink, that's one thing, but making them pink in an effort to attract women to the sport in order for them to buy weapons is rather sexist.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday May 29 2016, @10:09PM
Not if it works it's not.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.