Warning: This post contains images that some readers may find distressing.
Remember teen hunter and all-round terrible human Kendall Jones?
Well, she’s back – and she’s looking for love.
The 19-year-old Texan first shot to infamy last year when Facebook photographs of her posing with the bodies of African animals she had slaughtered went viral.
Remember this?
The sick photos show the blonde cheerleader grinning next to the lifeless bodies of exotic animals such as lions, leopards, bears.
Now, Kendall is looking for a gentleman-friend, so she launched the ‘Hot Hunter’ online competition by asking men to pose with the rare big game they have murdered.
The teenager has already been inundated with death threats over her controversial hobby, and the sick competition has brought a fresh wave of protests and threats against her.
More than 3,000 men applied for the dubious honour of being Kendall’s boyf, which she whittled down to an ‘American Idol-style Top 12’.
The winner was fellow hunting-enthusiast Trey Moore:
Image via Facebook.Meanwhile, Kendall has claimed she held the competition to expose sexism. She believes that ‘the anti-hunting crowd’ are against her not because she hunts, but because she is a girl. Riiiight.
‘The real reason I did this whole competition was to prove that what really pisses off the anti-hunting crowd is not that I hunt, or that I pose with my trophies, or that I’m proud of my achievements … its the fact that I’m a girl and I’m doing those things. Well I’m here to tell you, I’m NEVER going to stop. I’m proud to hunt, proud to cheer, proud to wear makeup, and especially PROUD TO BE ME!’
While we’re all for exposing sexism wherever it lives, countless people believe hunting rare and endangered creatures for sport is not okay. Whatever the gender of the person who’s doing it.
A change.org petition which aims to stop Kendall from hunting in Africa has attracted almost 160,000 signatures, and critics have taken to Twitter to express their outrage:
Kendall, who has said she hopes to host her own reality TV program, claims that she always hunts legally and that she gives the meat from her hunt to villages.
Bizarrely, she also claims that hunting helps conservation efforts.
And now, she has a buddy to do that with. Be afraid, innocent animals of the world. Be very afraid.
Here are some more examples of Kendall’s “trophies”, and and some of the “eligible bachelors” who applied to the ‘Hot Hunter’ competition:
Top Comments
So is Mamamia against all hunters or just the American/African hunters? I'm an Aussie and I hunt and what you have to remember is that all the game that you can hunt here in Australia is non native (feral). While I have no desire to hunt in Africa or America, I would like to hunt game in NZ (ie: Tahr, Chamois, Red Deer, Wapiti) which again is all introduced non native species. Here in Australia we call it "Conservation Hunting" as we are removing non native species so the natives do not have to compete or be a food source for feral introduced animals. Just last year Aussie hunters rearound over 250000 foxes (not to mention Feral Cats, Dogs etc) from Victoria alone which saved the lives of (at least) tens of millions of native marsupials, birds, reptiles, frogs etc etc ( just in Victoria). Take into account the whole of Australia and it would be hundreds of millions of native species saved, now tell me a conservation group in Australia who save that many native animals every year?
Hunting like that requires a permit and this actually does go towards conservation (provided it's done legally). To stop illegal poaching many African nations have an allowance of animals to be hunted. So individuals, such Kendall, may pay fairly large sums of money to hunt. This money then goes towards conservation. Twisted, but it is a policy aimed at conservation.
Having said that, I don't understand how she could be proud to pose with such majestic animals that she's killed. But each to their own, as long as it's done legally. And good on her for the competition, sounds like light entertainment to me - why do we care what she does?
We care about the animals, Jane.