I'm watching hockey on OLN right now. OLN is primarily a hunting channel, and they apparently have a show involving Larry Csonka, the former Dolphin running back. In their promos for the show, they use the phrase "Stalking Stuffers."
Now, I'm all for risque cleverness, but isn't it a little creepy to use that imagery? Especially for a network that is trying to reach out beyond the hunter-gatherer demographic? I'm not arguing the definition of the word, or its meaning within the context above. I'm just saying that if you aren't a hunter, your first reaction to the word "stalker" is not going to be about cloaking oneself in camo and hiding behind a tree... with no women around. Sure, you may counter that the "stalker" imagery that irritates me is, in fact, the application of a primal, animal act to a sophisticated art, thus the word in its sex offender context (creepy) is dependent on its meaning in the hunting context (literal). But then I can come back and talk about connotation vs. denotation, where the connotation dominates the denotation and its literal meaning is irrelevant. And if you argued with that, I'd get bored and walk away.
I have little else to say about any of that. Good hockey game though... 1-1 between the Rangers and the Wild.
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