This must be a case of great minds thinking alike;) In July of 2012 I wrote a post called “The Serial Killers Named Buffalo Bill” https://exposingthebiggame.wordpress.com/2012/07/08/the-serial-killers-named-buffalo-bill/ which begins with the quote, “It puts the lotion in the basket…” and includes the lines: The fictitious “Bill” was modeled in part after the real-life serial killer, Ed Gein, who, like most sport hunters, made trophies and souvenirs from his victims’ bones and skin.
It seems whether their victims are human or non-human animals, objectification and depersonalization play major roles in the psyches of hunters and/or serial killers.
Buffalo Bill/Silence of the Lambs
May 27, 2013
Yes, that’s the famous line uttered by the infamous serial killer, Buffalo Bill (Jame Gumm) in Silence of the Lambs. What does he mean when he makes that statement? If you remember the movie, Gumm captures a woman he plans to kill for her skin and places her in a deep well in his house. He wants her to rub lotion on her body to make her skin softer, so he lowers a basket containing skin lotion into the well and repeats the famous line, “It puts the lotion in the basket.” He uses the word IT when addressing her because he doesn’t see her as human, he sees her as an object, one he plans to exploit for his own sick pleasure.
He reminds me of trophy hunters who objectify their prey and see them as nothing more than targets…
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I read a FWP ranger in MT refer to black bears as recreational opportunities. MT has a spring and fall season on black bears killing 13-1400 annually. Hunting in the USA kills 33,000 black bears annually (recreational opportunities). Sportsmen and ranchers and yokel-nimrods do not see wildlife as conservationists do, as beautiful sentient beings to be seen and appreciated, maybe photographed, but as recreational opportunities, to be shot or trapped for sport, killed as trophies, and for their skin, meat, and animal parts, or as a nuisance. We, the conservationist and the wildlife killers, find it hard to talk to each other coming from such different perspectives. We, the conservationists, are mostly ignored by wildlife agencies. We both see each other as barbarian retrograde throwbacks or as warm-fuzzy-bambi loving-tree huggers environmental nuts.
I agree Roger, there/s a tremendous divide, it’s almost as if we were born on two separate planets. If only we could ignore them and live our lives with blinders on but they maim, torture and kill America’s and the worlds wildlife by the millions and that we can’t ignore.
I’ve said before that the human species is functionally divisible into three separate and distinct subspecies: Homo sapiens, Homo rapiens, and Homo indifferens. You will only find members of the first posting on this site. Unfortunately the latter two outnumber the former by about 20 to one. I conduct my life as if the latter two are entitled to no courtesies, consideration or inherent “human rights” since they are not members of my species; and Homo rapiens in particular as deserving of the same moral consideration one would accord to cancer cells.