Just the other day I was wondering ’round these parts why we don’t mix sex and other stuff more often. While I was thinking mostly about markets, this will do just fine, just fine indeed:
Sex toys to replace guns at UT-Austin campus carry protest.
If you haven’t been paying attention to the news, Texas’ legislature passed a law making it legal to carry a concealed firearm on Texas college and university campuses. The reaction at UT has largely been critical, with one professor very publicly resigning out of concerns for his safety.
Regardless of what you think of the law, it must be admitted that this particular protest is ingenious.
Countdown to someone who claims that they’re triggered by the sight of sex toys in 3..2..1..Report
I wondered that same thing….my assumption is that if I started carrying a huge dildo around a college campus, I’d be protested pretty quickly by some of the same people who are using dildos, to protest guns…maybe I’m wrong about that.
It would be pretty funny for each protest, to be trailed by a smaller protest.Report
Interesting.
I have a pretty good idea who’ll be vehemently opposed to this protest, and I wasn’t really thinking “SJW.” The Facebook group for the protest has a pretty good selection of those who don’t like this in comments, though I fully expect some religious groups to speak out as well.Report
Oh, no, SJW’s won’t protest this use of dildos, that’s not what I am saying at all.
What I am saying is, if someone brought a dildo and started swinging it around for some purpose of their own (say, to draw attention to Men’s Rights or something), the *dildo itself* would be posited as emblematic of all that was wrong with that person, and their position.
Their use of a sex toy would (IMO) likely be seen as offensive, misogynistic, and possibly akin to a veiled rape threat.
But it’s still just a dildo.Report
Ah, OK. I follow now.Report
It’s possible that there will be a protest of these particular dildos. One of the reasons for the hard-left circular firing squad formation we’ve become accustomed to for the last century or so is that other leftists are the only people who, absent an actual lawsuit, won’t laugh these complaints off.Report
Consistency is the hobgoblin of the small mine.Report
I believe the quote says “foolish consistency”. Which opens it up for all sorts of interpretation.Report
That seems more likely and like you said more interesting to think about.Report
The large mine, of course, has orcs.Report
@guy
Nah, you get kobolds in mines. Orcs are for caves, dungeons and occasionally tunnels.Report
“Do you see that MRA holding the dildo?”
“Funny, I was going to ask exactly the opposite,”Report
“Their use of a sex toy would (IMO) likely be seen as offensive, misogynistic, and possibly akin to a veiled rape threat.”
I’m sure, though, that once it was calmly explained that this was not at all meant as an assault, a threat, or for any purpose other than ironic commentary on a nonrelated political issue, then the person who had a problem with the sight of the dildo would understand that the failure to recognize and understand the message was their problem and not the dildo-brandisher’s fault.Report
There are probably people who are triggered by having guns or dildos on campus, which is okay. Just so long as the guns aren’t triggered.Report
Inspired! And it nails an obscenity policy as well.
I’d join with this.Report
Where’s Maude Lebowski when you need her?Report
“When Dildos are outlawed, only Dildos will have outlaws!”
Wait, that doesn’t work…Report
Sorry Ma’am, that’s an outlaw dildo. It’s over 12″ in length and uses more than 3 ‘D’ cells. It’s considered an Assault Dildo.
I’m afraid we’ll have to confiscate that.Report
Come on there is no difference between a 12 with 3 D cells and 5 with a AAA. Purely cosmetic differences, size doesn’t matter.Report
“For dildos longer than 12 inches we propose limiting magazine size and style.”Report
To what? 30 pages and black and white?Report
“The subcomittee’s final determinations will made official only after an exhaustive investigation of magazines commonly associated with aforementioned dildos is complete.”Report
I am assuming the author of the article enjoyed writing this sentence:
That’s a Schilling-worthy pun, that is.Report
While there are unusual circumstances in which carrying a gun does make one safer, the connection is a fallacy, genitally speaking.Report
New campus motto:
Cocked, locked and ready to rockReport