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RoeBear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-07-04 08:08 PM
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Canadian Girls with guns
Edited on Fri May-07-04 08:10 PM by RoeBear


Guelph—A controversial fundraising poster featuring eight provocatively clad, gun-slinging female police officers is drawing fire.

The poster, with the caption "Girls with Guns Target Breast Cancer," is a fundraiser for breast cancer research but that message is lost, detractors say, in images of sexy, heavily armed officers.

"There they are sporting guns as if it's a fun thing to do," said Dawn Reynolds, a family therapist in Guelph who is offended by the poster.

(extra points for the first person to call them flabby armed humholes)



http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1083795010638&call_pageid=968256289824&col=968342212737
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MrSandman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-07-04 08:30 PM
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1. But it is...
'"There they are sporting guns as if it's a fun thing to do," said Dawn Reynolds, a family therapist in Guelph who is offended by the poster.'
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JayS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-07-04 08:40 PM
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2. "they are sporting guns as if it's a fun thing to do"
I thought he was talking about an MTV video...
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solinvictus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-07-04 11:46 PM
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3. A rapist would just take the gun and use it on the woman!
:eyes:
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TexasMexican Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-08-04 01:01 AM
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4. So where can I get a poster?
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Columbia Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-08-04 03:15 AM
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5. From the Guelph PD:
"The contact person is Lynda Edwards of our purchasing department. She can be reached at 519-824-1212 ext 254, or lynda.edwards@police.guelph.on.ca"
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LibLabUK Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-08-04 08:14 AM
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6. Fetishistic....
Linking sex and guns...

I always thought linking violence and sex was considered pathological and something to be avoided or treated.

Hmm.. after a quick google, it seems that there's a whole genre of pornography depicting women with guns....

Uniquely disturbing if you ask me....

Is there a whole Hoplosexual Pride movement out there?
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OpSomBlood Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-08-04 08:19 AM
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7. I don't get it myself.
I am a gun owner and an avid shooter...but the "sex appeal" of guns seems a little sick to me, too.
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LibLabUK Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-08-04 08:22 AM
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8. A question...
WOuld you consider someone who finds this kind of pornograpy a turn on suitable to possess firearms?

Should it not be considered a mental illness?
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OpSomBlood Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-08-04 08:37 AM
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9. People have weird fetishes.
I don't really concern myself with it until they decide to act on them.

Most people have fantasies that they don't act on, and that doesn't make them mentally ill. I have a hard time pre-emptively persecuting people because of what turns them on.
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LibLabUK Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-08-04 11:42 AM
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14. Hmm...interesting.
'I have a hard time pre-emptively persecuting people because of what turns them on.'

So paedophilia is okay with you, as long as they keep it to photographs and don't decide to 'act on it'?

I think preventing someone having access to their fetish BEFORE they act on it and hurt someone is a good thing... nothing you can do to prevent a molestation or rape after it's occurred.
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slackmaster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-08-04 12:41 PM
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17. Having pedophilic photos IS acting out and it is also illegal
Edited on Sat May-08-04 12:46 PM by slackmaster
You cannot prosecute people for their thoughts, feelings, or impulses; only for behavior.

I think preventing someone having access to their fetish BEFORE they act on it and hurt someone is a good thing... nothing you can do to prevent a molestation or rape after it's occurred.

I agree whole-heartedly. People who have abnormal sexual impulses should be identified and treated, treated as medical patients before they become criminals.
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MrBenchley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-08-04 10:01 AM
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10. So true....
"Fetishism falls under the general category of paraphilias, "abnormal or unnatural attraction." Fetishism is a fixation on an inanimate object or body part that is not primarily sexual in nature, and the compulsive need for its use in order to obtain sexual gratification. Inanimate object fetishes can be categorized into two types: form fetishes and media fetishes. In a form fetish, it is the object and its shape that are important....Inanimate object fetishists often collect the object of their favor, and may go to great lengths, including theft...Fetishists may use any object for sexual gratification....For some, merely a picture of the fetish object may suffice in arousing the fetishists though most prefer or require the actual object."

http://www.psychologytoday.com/htdocs/prod/PTOInfo/pto_term_fetishism.asp
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Name removed Donating Member (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-08-04 12:39 PM
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slackmaster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-08-04 12:45 PM
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18. You're not qualified to diagnose a fetish, MrBenchley
Or anything else.
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MrBenchley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-08-04 11:20 AM
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13. Not nearly as funny
as watching the bullets for brains crowd spout their idiotic crap
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Good Fences Donating Member (30 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-09-04 09:44 PM
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19. Lions and tigers and boobs oh my....
get over it. Shootin guns is fun......
Canadian Hippie go home.....
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