replacing guns with sex toys in photos of GOP politicians

[loyalsister]

Matt Haughey, probably best known as the founder of MetaFilter, decided on Friday evening to embark on a new project: transforming images of GOP presidential hopefuls holding guns into images of GOP presidential hopefuls holding dildos. He told Twitter about it:

http://fusion.net/story/242110/gopdildo-matt-haughey/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fusion&utm_content=link

[MADem]

1. This. Man. Is. A. GENIUS!!!!!!

[rockfordfile]

11. hahaha

[bulloney]

25. Let's call the campaign "Toys for Twats."

[hifiguy]

2. As the Guinness Guys used to say,

Right up there with the Quackbar photoshoppers for originality.

[linuxman]

3. It's like anti gunners are determined to remind me at every opportunity

That they can't stop thinking about dicks. Seriously. It's becoming a requirement, practically

[TheCowsCameHome]

4. Awww.

Don't take it personal.

[linuxman]

6. You got me all wrong.

I find it hillarious.

[hunter]

5. How would you like me to mock their guns?

Because mock them I will.

[linuxman]

7. This way is fine.

It's pretty funny to me, but not for the reason it is for others, I suspect.

For grabbers, guns seem to always =dicks. Is that why they are always grabbing at them? I mean, jeez, how about some dinner first?

[Orrex]

8. The joke persists because it bothers the gun zealots

The more desperate among them will make preposterous and irrelevant claims about sexism, while others will pretend that gun marketing doesn't sexualize these weapons of death. Still others will will predictably get more upset about a few dick jokes than about thousands upon thousands of annual gun murders.

Also:


Yeah. The "anti gunners" are the ones who can't stop thinking about dicks.

[linuxman]

10. A toy for little boys from the 40s.

Nope. Not reaching at all.

[Orrex]

12. Then as now

That's just one of the more obvious ones, but you're lying to yourself if you pretend that gun ads aren't sexualized. If the gun zealots are the ones who are buying guns, then who do you think the ads are targeting?

Or do you get all fluttery inside when someone mentions a target?

[Warren DeMontague]

13. It's also relevant because in many states it is illegal to buy a sex toy but guns are available

At wal-mart.

Hell, in most of the same states, you can go to prison for something like 5 years for smoking a joint in your own house.

Wouldnt you agree that's fucked up, even if you have no problem with the availability of the firearms?

[linuxman]

14. Of course that is.

I support all sorts of personal rights.

Nobody should be able to withold my right to put substances into my own body, an effective means to defense, or whatever sort of sex toys I may or may not want. If I'm not actively hurting other myself, stuff it. No pun intended.

[Warren DeMontague]

15. I tend to consider gun control a moot issue federally, anyway, but the hypocrisy of many (not you)

2A supporters on issues of personal freedom is too huge to ignore.

I think a rational approach to firearms ought to take into account the wide potential of mayhem from the things, but at the same time I don't think widespread prohibition/criminalization is either feasible or desirable from a personal freedom perspective.

I think registration, licensing, and some form of background checks are legitimate just as they are with motor vehicle operation and other situations.

[MADem]

17. Did The Donald have one of those as a lad?

"....for indoor war play has no equal...."

[tkmorris]

16. I'm not seeing that really, but...

What would be wrong with thinking about dicks anyway? You seem to intend it as an insult of a sort, but I'm not seeing that either. Perhaps they are women, or gay men, or just phallus fans in a more general way. Where's the problem?

[jtuck004]

19. Well, if people didn't run around with penis extensions to augment the personality they are lacking

perhaps they wouldn't be such an obvious target of ridicule?

Most everyone who doesn't need such artificial enhancement keeps it tucked away, like the rest of us. i.e., this says more about the lack of confidence in the person attempting to correct their deficiency than people suggesting that it isn't working.

[LanternWaste]

22. I'd infer that too were my bias dependent upon doing so.

I'd infer that too were my bias dependent upon doing so. I'd also pretend to know what they can and cannot stop thinking about to better maintain the pretense that my defensive attitude is simply an objective observation-- and though no one really buys it, we ourselves do-- and that's all that matters.

[linuxman]

23. I don't have to pretend.

Most come out and tell me. It's like a reflex. Someone mentions a firearm, they start talking about dicks. It's like newton's 3rd law of penises or sonething. For every mention of a gunn, there is an equal and opposite response about dick.

If I thought about my genitals as much as some of these peole, I'd be 13 again.

[Eleanors38]

9. "Attack of the Fifty-Foot Salami!"

[pscot]

18. The one Cheney's holding

is life sized, if you can believe what you see on the internet.

[louis-t]

20. Haw!!!!

[NastyRiffraff]

21. Love it!

To the gun enthusiasts out there:

Most (I hope) of you are sane and call for more regulations of drugs. You know no one is trying to take away your guns, but you also know unregulated guns are dangerous...all you have to do is see the latest news to drive that truth home.

However....
There are some, right here on DU, who believe in their "god-given right" to buy guns whenever they want. Guess what? Even if there were a god, he/she/it has not ever given you or anyone else the right to guns. The U.S. constitution does that, but that right was never intended to put guns in the hands of anyone, anywhere.

So, whether it's "hey, lookit my big swinging dick" or "here's my little buddy," the look in these photoshopped gun-toters eyes is adoration bordering on worship. That's why the joke persists.

[alarimer]

24. Oddly, it's illegal to sell sex toys in Alabama, but you can have as many guns as you like.

Because sex is icky and bad, but violence is a-ok.

Texas (and probably much of the south) has similar laws, although some have been struck down by now.

As Molly Ivins would (probably) say, "You can't make this shit up."

[erronis]

27. So I guess AL gun stores could just carry phallic attachments and they would all be happy

or blow their mouths/bottoms off. Sorry.

[SunSeeker]

26. K & R

[niyad]

28. thank goodness I wasn't drinking anything!

[patsimp]

29. excellent

[Godot51]

30. Make love, not war...

Yes, I'm showing my age...