"True" Men's Channel

For the first time in my life I watched a television channel that features hunting. All hunting. I was with a couple of guy friends who let me shoot a couple of guns up north during labor day weekend. Anyhow, we were watching the hunting channel long enough for me to notice some things:

1. The commercials were cheesy.

2. The commercials looked like the homemade videos. America's Funniest Home Videos without the Funny.

3. They featured mostly guys, which is really what I want to talk about in this posting.

The men featured in these commercials were average looking. Most of them had the "hey der"-type accent. There was no makeup applied to these men's faces. I don't remember seeing any women in these commercials. So, no women... no attractive men. It seems more obvious why women aren't featured. Hunting is a "manly" thing. There are "no women allowed." It's as if they say, "if we let women in, it will emasculate the sport."

There are no women... but wouldn't you think that there'd be at least some sexy women doing the commercials? Like the typical commercials that want to attract men to a product. Nope, not in hunting. My theory is that hunting isn't supposed to be sexy. It's all guy. You're not using the product to feel sexier or to attract women. It's pure sport.

There are no good looking men... why? I will theorize that good looking men who have an attractive face, body, and styled hair are too metrosexual. It's like if they are attractive, then they spend too much time in front of the mirror. Again, it comes back to the sexy thing (and perhaps an adversion to homosexuality). What is the point in having an attractive guy on camera you don't care how you look like when you hunt? Do hunters really want to look like a model when they're hunting? They may want to, but hunting is not a realm in which you should care. Why would you want to look like a "pretty boy" (i.e. "pansy") when you're around other men?

Thus, attractive men and women are not needed to produce these commercials. Well, good for them for not using commercial models. Saves money!