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.
Good on Jin and her supporters for protesting gun violence. That’s extremely brave of her to take on the gun lobby while living in such a red state like TX.
I really wish there was something that could be done about people like Cantwell who put people exercising their First Amendment rights at risk.
How the fuck can an American carry an assault rifle like that and not be considered a terrorist?
1. That is not a hunting weapon, that is a mass-murdering weapon.
2. They are in a fucking Chipotle restaurant, not a war-zone.
3. They are clearly carrying with the intent to be seen to be carrying a weapon.
4. One does not carry around a cumbersome weapon of death without the intent to use it.
5. This constitutes a threat. “Look, I’m carrying an implement of death, which I wouldn’t need if I wasn’t already thinking of shooting someone.”
These are the same weapons used by Boko Haram and ISIS in the same setting to carry out massacres. Fucking Hell!
Seriously, America. This is why I adamantly refuse to visit your country.
My Beloved suggested last week that we take the opportunity of some cheap plane tickets, and I was too shit-scared of having to be on the same continent as raging gun fanatics to want to go.
Even as a liberal, my first impression was this was a gimmicky Michael Moorish stunt(and I like Moore) and I rolled my eyes.
Then I looked at the Facebook feed and HOLEEEEEE SHITEEE!!! This really gets under the people’s skin.
Christopher Cantwell = Libertarian conspiracy loon. Watch him here(or not) endorsing 911 woo(broke link, you’ll have to copy paste):
youtube.com/watch?v=YDNxiLgOd_U
And he has no idea what due diligence in journalism is. Here he interviews a convicted sex offender on the same woo subject:
youtube.com/watch?v=2L1zjONL79Q
More on sex offender:
http://offender.fdle.state.fl.us/offender/flyer.do?personId=65694
Cantwell is informed of this and appears to not care. But dildos bother him? So, yeah, yet another fringe amoral political opportunist.
@bvh:
It is funny how women getting their own pleasure is such a threat for guys, isn’t it?
Sex toy laws in southern states are something spectacular to behold. That explains some of those “personal massager” ads, doesn’t it?
Why do these idiots think that they’ll be the next John McClane?
They’re more likely to be ID’s as co conspirators and killed by police or shot by other gun wielding dildos who think that they’re with the original shooter.
Do they think that the real world works like a video game where the shooters name is in red and all of the good guys with guns have blue names over their heads?
I think this kind of protest would be better suited for ridiculing Open Carry Texas.
I mean, concealed carry is stupid and dangerous and probably compensating for something but at least it’s concealed, just like you’re apparently required to carry your sex toys concealed in Texas.
I think I can help you out here,
They’re white, so these guns are actually liberty defenders.
Hey, you never know when freedom will have to be protected. There might be immigrants there!
But they’re white!
But they’re white!
No seriously, didn’t you see that they’re white? What don’t get you get? They’re probably Christian too!
Oh boy. You never learn do you? They’re white I tell you! White!
We need guns because there are guns. The more guns there are, the more guns we need to protect ourselves from the guns. But when we buy guns there are more guns, so we need MORE GUNS.
@skiriki
Is that what’s going on? Because I never understood that. A woman who uses a dildo obviously likes using dick and she’s only using a dildo because a man of her preference isn’t around. Meaning if there was one around, she’d fuck him instead, ergo a guy has a chance with her.(Yes, I know gay women also uses dildos–just go with it for now)
If it’s the boyfriend/hubby with the problem, it makes even less sense: clearly she’s doing this when he’s not around, just like he wanks when she’s not around. What does he propose? Always being at her beck and call for sex? (Hmm…I could get used to that…)
Anyway! I know the answer lies in deep seated irrational insecurities. It’s just acting out the mind boggling lack of self awareness on this scale that’s, well, mind-boggling.
It’s interesting how often misogynistic guys accuse women of wanting attention (see: Oliver Twist guy, above), as if wanting attention were the worst thing in the world. One of the more egregious examples is the guys who justify online rape and death threats against women by accusing the victims of being “attention whores” or whatever. A woman wanting or attracting attention is a crime that must not go unpunished – or at least, like dressing provocatively, it justifies blaming her for whatever she gets.
The basis of this insult of course is that a woman seeking attention because she has something to say is the same as a little kid deliberately misbehaving in order to get attention, or the self-centred person at the party who gets annoyed when the conversation isn’t focused on them. But what I actually hear when I see “attention-seeking American women” is a) “American women aren’t silent, invisible and servile enough for my liking” and b) “I am too immature to understand that there’s a difference between egotistical attention seeking and trying to draw attention to one’s cause or opinion.”
There’s a lot of stuff to unpack here.
bvh,
It’s all about hating single women. America really, really hates single women. The presumed/default dildo users is not a housewife waiting for her husband to get home, it’s a young urban professional with 1.5 cats and a 1-bedroom walk-up.
“Traditional Marriage” is a terrible deal for women, so American patriarchy only stays alive by convincing themselves that a degrading, exploitative marriage is better than being alone. Dildos make living alone seem less bleak, so they help young women hold out for a good match and older women break free of their shitty husbands. They must be stopped.
AltoFronto – agree 100%. It was when Anita Sarkeesian cancelled her Utah talk at the university I realised how bad it is. Students are ‘free’ to have guns in their dorms! People are ‘free’ to carry them around the campus, and as the police wouldn’t guarantee her safety AS cancelled the talk.
Why are guns necessary in the place of learning? Or going down the shops (Idaho Walmart 1/2015 a child dies because their mother had a gun in her bag)? Or around kids at home just hanging about?
(Sincere Smith in Conway, South Carolina, was relaxing after a heavy meal of chicken and mac and cheese on Christmas day when he spotted an object on the living room table. It was a .38-caliber handgun that his father had bought two weeks before and had left on the table while he went to make a phone call. Sincere picked it up and fired a single shot through his own chest; he died en route to hospital.
Trinity Ross, aged four, was playing with her six-year-old brother and another boy aged five at home in Kansas City, Missouri. While her stepmother was looking for something in the car outside the house, Trinity’s brother discovered a revolver tucked under a jacket on a living room chair. He picked it up and pulled the trigger, accidentally hitting Trinity in the head; she died in hospital several days later.
Christopher Stanlane, aged 10, was sitting on the floor at home in Fairmont, North Carolina, watching TV as his father was cleaning his shotgun on the couch beside him. The gun fired by mistake, hitting Christopher in the back of the head; he died instantly.)
I just realised, in the Walmart shooting it was the mother that died, shot by her 2 year old child .
This is just another day at the office for pro-gun “activists”. These assholes aggressively harass, dox and stalk members of gun control groups, particularly Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense. Any guesses why Moms Demand Action would particularly garner some of the most venomous hate?
Spitting, Stalking, Rape Threats: How Gun Extremists Target Women
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/05/guns-bullying-open-carry-women-moms-texas
I wonder how many people who bring up “perversion” have a well-used porn account somewhere. Stockpiling weapons and sexual frustration are commonly linked.
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Uh.. I messed up the blockquote…
weirwoodtreehugger: “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.”
At least one episode had a joke specifically making fun of the NRA; the list of things the “National Raygun Association” protects a mad scientist’s right to carry includes doomsday devices and mutated anthrax “for duck hunting”.
Subtle, dude.
@Orion
From a reactionary political agenda standpoint, that all makes sense.
But its expression IRL, in real time, in actual human interactions, is dead silly. If I was as lacking is real valid arguments as these people, and shared their world view, I’d shut the hell up and try to ignore the protest. Anything else would make me look like some loser afraid of a piece of molded plastic.
This response is just begging to be mocked.
http://m.quickmeme.com/meme/3526ck
Just want to point out that Oliver Twist is the protagonist of the story and has been selected by the underfed children to request more food. His request for more food is a challenge to an unfair system.
Which would mean that Reggie has unintentionally presented Lin and her supporters as heroes drawing attention to an injustice.
Alan, if you want to include “positive” gun interactions, where a gun was not fired but deterred a crime, then you’d also have to include negative interactions, where crimes were committed with guns but the guns weren’t fired. I don’t think you want to do that