With all due respect to Geri Thomas, I'd like to argue a bit with the 
characterization of "headhunter" as a pejorative term.  I can well understand a 
"search and recruitment" specialist preferring not to be called a headhunter or any 
other slangy term, just as many psychiatrists prefer not being called 
headshrinkers or "shrinks" (although I have known several who didn't mind the slang 
at all).  But I question the notion that calling "some tribal peoples in the 
past" headhunters is pejorative, which I take to imply incorrect or unfair.  I 
suspect that "headhunting" is probably surrounded by myth and misunderstanding, 
and I invite any anthropologist or other expert to clarify or correct me, but 
is it not a bald (ha) fact that "some tribal peoples in the past" hunted for 
heads to shrink, under certain circumstances?  Even if the practice of 
headhunting were a complete myth, for that matter, isn't the notion of search and 
recruitment specialists hunting for good heads a rather apt metaphor?

What's next?  Disc jockeys objecting to the term because they disapprove of 
horseracing as a cruel sport that exploits helpless creatures?

David Haberstich

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