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Ricky Gervais has not traditionally been one to hold his tongue, and this has become even more apparent over the past week when he began posting about a woman, Rebecca Francis, lying gleefully next to a dead giraffe she had just killed. The situation has escalated, even with Francis claiming Gervais is a sexist, but Ricky’s April 22 post pretty much told the whole story.
Ricky Gervais Takes on Trophy Hunting
After Gervais posted the original picture of Francis and the poor giraffe she killed, the hunter responded by saying she was doing a service for both the giraffe and the villagers in the area. Here’s Ricki’s original post which got the whole thing started:
Photo here.
As it turns out, Francis didn’t like being called out, so she shared this little nugget:
“…whether hunting is right or wrong is no longer the issue at hand. Ricky Gervais has used his power and influence to specifically target women in the hunting industry and has sparked thousands of people to call for my death, the death of my family and many other women who hunt.”
Ricky, of course, had his own response:
Twitter response.
But honestly, this is all old news. Even after all of this amazingness, this one post can explain exactly why we love Ricky Gervais:
"I’m sick of Trophy Hunters trying to excuse their grim sport by saying they provide a service. They exploit the needs of the poor. They pay lots of money to go and shoot a magnificent animal because the authorities need the cash, and then claim they are doing a good deed. It’s not a good deed. Those authorities would rather have the money AND the animal still alive but they can’t afford to. So they’re forced to take money from rich psychopaths who get their cheap fucking thrills from shooting a giraffe or elephant in the head. If they were providing a service THEY would be the ones being paid. Imagine a vet paying you to put down your dog and then taking a selfie next to the corpse. And as for “the money goes to saving there remaining animals”..Oh dear. Where will it end? Can you pay more to kill the leopard with a hammer if that’s your perversion? They’re already killing with bows and arrows for fucks sake. And would we allow some billionaire sicko to shoot one cancer patient if he gave a million dollars to cancer research? No. Of course we fucking wouldn’t. If they really wanted to do a good deed they would donate the money, and NOT shoot the animal. They would be heroes then. As opposed to murdering scum."
It seems he has a point. That photo up there doesn’t look much like a person who was hesitant to shoot a giraffe. But hey, I’m no expert in smiling after killing a living being.