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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: 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.