{"id":72145,"date":"2017-11-21T11:00:14","date_gmt":"2017-11-21T16:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=72145"},"modified":"2020-08-10T19:10:51","modified_gmt":"2020-08-11T00:10:51","slug":"seasons-greetings-from-americas-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2017\/11\/21\/seasons-greetings-from-americas-men\/","title":{"rendered":"Season\u2019s Greetings from America\u2019s Men"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thanksgiving is upon us. Typically, a time in which we all get together and collectively celebrate the genocide of Native Americans at the hands of Puritanical European conquerors. This tradition now includes family gatherings, expressions of thanks, love and self-congratulations, bountiful feasts, and uncomfortable social and political conversations, all revolving around the all-important turkey dinner. <\/span><\/p>\n

Turkeys are notoriously difficult to cook perfectly and with good flavor. And, while women are generally held responsible for the grunt work involved in turkey preparation, it is men\u2019s contributions that matter the most: carving, traditionally, and, now, seasoning.<\/span><\/p>\n

Luckily, the invisible hand of capitalism has developed a masculine method for men to fulfill their manly role of seasoning\u2014one that doesn\u2019t involve any sissy sprinkling<\/i>. It\u2019s Season Shot<\/span><\/a>: a way for a hunter to deliver exactly the right amount of flavor to a turkey, via shotgun, at the precise moment of his victory over nature. It\u2019s boldness and self-reliance in a (nut) shell.<\/span><\/p>\n

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For those girly men and women who don\u2019t know about hunting, shotguns are different from rifles. Instead of a bullet, they shoot a hollow shell full of small balls of steel. Shotguns are especially well-suited to murder most fowl, as it makes it easier to target small, moving game. Season Shot replaces the standard steel with seasoning granules. Why delicately season a fresh\u00b9 turkey, when you can blast in the flavor? Varieties includes Cajun flavor, Lemon Pepper, Garlic, Teriyaki, and Honey Mustard. <\/span><\/p>\n

We dare you to find a more manly way to do women\u2019s work. <\/span><\/p>\n

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The additional positives of using Season Shot are plentiful. Firstly, dental. You won\u2019t suffer a broken tooth due to a pellet your wife or some other woman failed to fish out of the carcass. All your teeth will encounter is flesh. <\/span><\/p>\n

Secondly, there is the efficiency.\u00a0 <\/span>You season the bird on impact; marinating starts immediately as the body heat melts the seasoned pellets. Men don\u2019t like to waste time.<\/span><\/p>\n

Thirdly, benevolent patriarchal protection of the environment. As it says on the Season Shot website: <\/span><\/p>\n

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Our environment is the basis for the sport of hunting. Without a healthy environment how would our hunting fare? Why damage the very thing that allows us to do what we love? Season Shot is the answer. This is the first truly environmentally safe ammunition, Season Shot stands out above the rest. Using fully biodegradable shot, Season Shot is the right choice to protect what we love.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The final advantage is a thank you from your ol\u2019 lady. She can\u2019t nag you for spending the whole day eating, napping, and watching football while she furiously coordinates guests, pets, decorations, and a meal large enough for a small army after weeks of extensive thought and preparation\u2014no, not when all of her work would be wasted without you and Season Shot.<\/span><\/p>\n

In short, Season Shot gives us men a safe and environmentally friendly way to indulge our obsession with guns, protect our masculinity, and produce more egalitarian holiday chores. Thanks, capitalism. You\u2019ve done it again.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00b9Note:\u00a0Authors suggest using extreme caution on frozen turkeys due to potential ricochet. Authors also suggest only using outdoors.<\/span><\/p>\n

D\u2019Lane R. Compton, PhD<\/i><\/a><\/span> is a lover of all things antler, feather, and fur. An associate professor of sociology at the University of New Orleans with a background in social psychology, methodology, and a little bit of demography, they are usually thinking about food, country roads, stigma, queer nooks and places, sneakers and hipster subcultures. You can follow them on <\/i>twitter<\/i><\/span><\/a>.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

Tony Love<\/i><\/a><\/span> is a fan of most sports, a rural person stuck in the city, and conducts social psychology experiments on his own children and pets for fun. He researches social psychology and criminology as an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Kentucky. He is especially happy when confronted with cookies and especially unhappy when confronted with exercise. Sometimes he writes serious sociology articles that only other sociologists read. <\/i><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thanksgiving is upon us. Typically, a time in which we all get together and collectively celebrate the genocide of Native Americans at the hands of Puritanical European conquerors. This tradition now includes family gatherings, expressions of thanks, love and self-congratulations, bountiful feasts, and uncomfortable social and political conversations, all revolving around the all-important turkey dinner. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1851,"featured_media":72151,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2124,2087,254,250,2086],"class_list":["post-72145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-foodagriculture","tag-gender-masculinity","tag-holidays","tag-guns","tag-thanksgiving"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2017\/11\/Index_Bird.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1851"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72145"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73103,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72145\/revisions\/73103"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}