An Austin woman has come up with a rather innovative way to protest a new “campus carry” law that will allow Texans to carry concealed weapons on campuses: what if gun control advocates were to show up on the University of Texas at Austin carrying not guns, but … dildos?
Naturally, she’s calling it #CocksNotGlocks.
As Jessica Jin, the woman behind the proposed protest, explained on the Facebook page she set up for the event,
“You’re carrying a gun to class? Yeah well I’m carrying a HUGE DILDO.'”
Just about as effective at protecting us from sociopathic shooters, but much safer for recreational play.
She’s got a point: As the Washington Post has noted, for every “justified homicide” carried out with a gun — that is, for every time someone kills someone with a gun in an act of legitimate self-defense — there are 34 gun homicides, 78 gun suicides, and 2 people killed accidentally with guns.
Predictably, gun enthusiasts have responded to Jin’s protest — which isn’t even scheduled until the law takes effect next August — with the sort of behavior that suggests once again that they are the absolute last people in the world who should ever be entrusted with guns.
And that includes this guy:
The gun enthusiasts have been flooding Jin and her Facebook page with threats, angry rants, and an assortment of obscene pictures. Some of their, er, wisdom:
You can find more along these lines in Raw Storys post on the protest.
This guy, meanwhile, has been posting offensive pic after offensive pic. A few of the more palatable:
The threats have been worrying enough to Jin that she’s contacted the local police.
Just as worryingly, one self-described “Anarchist, Atheist, Asshole” by the name of Christopher Cantwell has decided to doxx her, posting her address and phone number on his blog and informing his readers that “I can confirm the number is working. I called her, and she called me back and left a voicemail with her name.”
Because why not give angry gun owners what amounts to a map to her home?
If Cantwell’s name sounds familiar, that’s because we’ve met him before: I wrote about last year when I discovered him on Twitter telling numerous people to go kill themselves in assorted inventive ways.
Oh, and did I mention he wrote not one, not two, but nine articles for A Voice for Men last year? And that AVFM’s Paul Elam and Dean Esmay responded to my post about his Twitter “activism” … by telling me to kill myself? Ah, memories!
Happily, gun control supporters have rallied around Jin and her protest, posting supportive comments and repurposed gun fetishist propaganda with dildos taking the place of guns.
So far, more than 4000 people on Facebook say they will be attending the protest, and there’s talk about getting a sex toy company to sponsor the event.
H/T — Thanks to Jennifer Graham and Snork Maiden for pointing me to this story.
Y’know, dildos aren’t anything to sneeze at, being all made of rubber and maybe batteries and motors and things. I’d hate to get hit with one from across the room.
(Also, you refer to her as “Jim” in the “contacted the police” para right under that awful Adam Ho fella).
David: you call her Jim at one point.
Dear Tim:
There is a difference between a dildo and a vibrator. A vibrating egg is not shaped like a dick. However, your personality is.
PS:
Getting hit in the head with a larger dildo would f’n hurt.
Is that a dildo in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?
The protest will end with a performance by the Sex Pistols.
Happiness is a warm….something.
those really absurdly big ones look like they’d function quite nicely as a cudgel…just sayin…and there’s far less chance of…misfire?
More from the Overcompensation Brigade, I see.
I have to take issue with the study referred to. Using just justified shootings isn’t a good comparator. It fails to take into account the use of guns as an individual or general deterrent. If an assault is averted because the assailant doesn’t want to be shot then that’s a success surely?
There are plenty of gun control arguments but that study isn’t one of them.
Everyone on campus should carry one of these: http://www.vgfacts.com/attachments/full/2/3335.jpg
It should be every citizen’s right to carry a dildo everywhere, put it in the constitution!
Though what is it with edgy white boys and claiming to be anarchists while acting in a way that is the very opposite of being properly punk rock anyways? Are they mixing anarchism with Bioshock style liberalism or something, or does that word have very different connotations in the US than in Europe or?
@nightmarelyre
I think some privileged types think that anarchy is just another name for libertarianiam.
I’d like to fly couple of these: http://31.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lbn1dzkQ841qahhxwo1_250.gif (hopefully linked, since somewhat NSFW except ah man we’re already… well whatever.)
Libertarianism, even.
@nightmarelyre
Basically, it boils down to edgey people thinking they’re ‘rebels’ just because they’re conservative shit heads who don’t like the government.
It’s like how American conservatives say things like “This may be controversial, but merry Christmas!”
@Alan Robertshaw
True in isolation, but in consideration of the much higher number of gun deaths in the U.S. compared to other rich countries, I think it’s a meaningful finding. We don’t see such a chilling effect in those countries.
@nightmarelyre
It really has two meanings in the U.S., one is libertarian capitalism/minarchism (ie as in Bioshock) and the other is anti-statism/libertarian socialism. The left-wing meaning of “anarchism” doesn’t have much traction outside socialism and leftist anarchism, though, so the right-wing meaning predominates.
Ooh that whole “I’m an edgy anarchist” boast is one of the few things that bugs me.
A particularly annoying manifestation is the proliferation of Guy Fawkes masks by people who take their lead from the *film* version of V for Vendetta.
Don’t get me wrong I quite like the film but I’m very much on board with Alan Moore’s view that it completely misinterprets the source material.
The irony is that such people’s ‘activism’ and indeed entire existence is completely dependent on a hierarchical society and the infrastructure thus provided.
If they want to experience true anarchy let’s head over to Somalia. It would be an interesting test of real world skills in applied violence versus video games.
One of these assholes said “The respect for the US is at an all time low”.
Uh yeah, at the moment I think the thing the US is most widely being criticized for is how easy it is for just anyone to get a gun, so…
(We have more legal restrictions on toy guns than on real ones.)
Typical conservatives: Shrieking in outrage that someone else wants to carry around a substitute penis in public while adamantly insisting upon carrying their own.
What, seriously? This isn´t some 4chan prank?
I haven’t seen Futurama (I know, I know. Shut up) but considering how beloved it seems to be amongst progressives, I’ve always assumed the writing was more left leaning. Not that right wingers ever understand symbolism or subtle satire of any kind. I suppose it’s more likely to that he didn’t watch the show and just took a common meme and made a really offensive version of it. In any case, I doubt the writers and showrunners of Futurama would be too pleased with that meme.
I don’t think John Smith there is very knowledgeable about what people outside of the US think of us. Shocking, I know. As far as I can gather, people mostly are baffled and disturbed by our gun obsession and think we’re too puritanical about sex. It’s really hard to fathom that this protest is going to somehow hurt our standing in the world.
Notice how Tim Lecompte couldn’t resist making the hypothetical dildos black? Sigh. It’s a little disturbing how obsessed the right is with black men’s penises. What’s with that? Have they always been that way or is this a reaction to the Obama presidency?
Reggie Buckwald thinks that this protest is attention seeking? Hey, maybe it is. But you can’t tell me open carry activists are all subtle and demure. There’s no way these guys were open carrying in Chipotle because they wanted attention, right?
http://www.gunssavelife.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/ChipotleBoys.jpg
Okay, in the case of Roosh´s fanboys, maybe throwing a dildo would stop a campus shooting.
I didn’t see David mention one of the excellent relevant details — apologies if I missed to. This isn’t just a gun protect married to a dick joke. It’s also civil disobedience married to a dick protest.
You see, in Texas, open carrying a gun is legal, but open carrying a dildo is not.
Alan: “Using just justified shootings isn’t a good comparator. It fails to take into account the use of guns as an individual or general deterrent.”
The study uses a perfectly reasonable, apples-to-apples comparison, i.e. “positive” justified shootings versus various other types of “negative” shootings. You seem to be proposing an apples-to-oranges comparison between the number of unjustified shootings, and the number of justified shootings plus all of the positive interactions taken from the (probably larger) set of gun related interactions that aren’t actually shootings, which would make guns look like much more of a net positive for society than they actually are.