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In reply to the discussion: This message was self-deleted by its author [View all]flamin lib
(14,559 posts)4. Yeah, bit it's fun, the gun industry plays into it (consider your man card renewed) and in the long
term it will belittle the fetishists to the point that guns aren't cool.
Might take a decade but it worked with tobacco and alcohol.
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I hope the sarcasm isn't aimed at me. Are there any studies about penis size and anything?
UTUSN
Jan 2013
#8
The movie in the o.p. was one of many references that depraved murderers or such were
UTUSN
Jan 2013
#6
Yeah, bit it's fun, the gun industry plays into it (consider your man card renewed) and in the long
flamin lib
Jan 2013
#4
I don't think the gun industry plays into it. I think the gun industry started it.
merrily
Jan 2013
#54
And what about good, non-gun crazed men on the sidelines of conversations like this...
Silent3
Jan 2013
#65
Uh, it's a rhetorical/propaganda technique of denigrating the opponent without factual argumentation
UTUSN
Jan 2013
#11
Look, I cited a movie in the o.p., then another movie in another post, off the top of my head
UTUSN
Jan 2013
#26
Your O.P was flame bait--and, by your own admission, you knew it when you posted it.
merrily
Jan 2013
#57
I'm 64, and old enough to verify that anti-gay psycho-babble referenced by the OP.
Eleanors38
Jan 2013
#72
Thank you VERY much for your thoughtful/validating (of my point) posts, but regarding gun-nuttery
UTUSN
Jan 2013
#113
You are in need of a pop culture lesson piror to you mounting the lecture podium.
Bluenorthwest
Jan 2013
#101
I've explained as much as I can in the previous posts. I'm not going to go into tangents.
UTUSN
Jan 2013
#14
If you knew you were stepping into it, you should have been prepared to explain.
merrily
Jan 2013
#21
Whoa, I thought I had tied the ribbon in your previous post. This will do it for me.
UTUSN
Jan 2013
#30
Oh, please. You made a nonsensical statement and, when asked to explain, you couldn't.
merrily
Jan 2013
#35
On that last paragraph. Oh, yes, it does. I saw a comedian doing a routine about his pregnant wife.
freshwest
Jan 2013
#36
Yes, any expression of a woman wanting to be independent was called that. I had one suggest it,
freshwest
Jan 2013
#53
There wasn't much competition for that field back then. He's been well debunked now.
freshwest
Jan 2013
#71
Lack of masculinity and/or weakness has often been attributed to people who don't own guns.
merrily
Jan 2013
#28
The murderer in Goodbar was portrayed as killing from repressed rage over his sexuality.
UTUSN
Jan 2013
#33
The way I remember (and read) was it was because he thought she was mocking him.
Behind the Aegis
Jan 2013
#67
The KILLER was a dude whose motivation was depicted to be rage over HIS repressed sexuality. n/t
UTUSN
Jan 2013
#44
No... "Just Saying" is just like "Trust Me", it's another way to say F.U.
TheBlackAdder
Jan 2013
#68
BREATHtaking riposte & shutting down of a flame!1 I am not worthy, I am not worthy!1 n/t
UTUSN
Jan 2013
#116
An extremely poor sense of taste in accessorizing or a desperate need for attention...
freshwest
Jan 2013
#39
Rather pathetic and useless. I wouldn't associate with someone who put that on their truck. But then
freshwest
Jan 2013
#64
Thanks!1 But my S.O.S. to pinboy3niner went cut-LOOSE!1 Maybe he deems me ableto handle it now!1 n/t
UTUSN
Jan 2013
#117
I'd like to see a study, of male owners of multiple guns, say 50 or more guns...
Science Geek
Jan 2013
#56
NO. Gun nutters/teabaggers should have be Shermanized back in the 1860's. Fuck them. NO...
madinmaryland
Jan 2013
#61
+1000. A very large part of "gun culture" is compensation for feelings of masculine inadequacy.
baldguy
Jan 2013
#90
The gratuitousness of your post was the deciding factor in my shutting down the thread. n/t
UTUSN
Jan 2013
#118
So, sometimes a gun is just a gun? Unlike "This is my rifle; THIS is my gun"?
WinkyDink
Jan 2013
#103