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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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