Several investigators have noted how the bigfoot research community consists predominantly of middle-class, middle-aged white men; this statement is not, of course, meant to describe everyone within this research community: it’s a generalization. In his 2009 book Bigfoot: the Life and Times of a Legend, Joshua Blu Buhs linked a belief in bigfoot with a psychological desire to explore the wilderness, to hunt and to engage in adventures perceived as ‘masculine’. It might be said that the cryptozoological community in general is dominated by these associations, as are certain other communities
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