Popular Culture Review Vol. 4, No. 2, June 1993 | Page 75

Roosevelt, Feather Fashions,
and Hunter-Naturalists
Note: then and now "sportsm an" included a
significant portion of women; "sportsperson," a
modern suggestion, is an awkward solution to this
apparent misnomer; "hunter" is non-gendered but both
fails to discriminate between modes and suffers from
the distorted stereotype of representing a uniquely
male px>pulation, never accurate among the elite and
presumably not so in the general population. Since
"sportsnuin" was the historic choice, the convention is
us Y[