Owen Sparks
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If you can't "accept" scantily clad women in gun advertisements then don't buy from those companies. That is how the free market works.
I agree. But let me tell you why I believe it's true. In this Politically Correct induced environment, the stores around me have all but abandoned gun magazines period. I can't go to a drugstore, supermarket, or most media stores that sell magazines and even find copies of Shotgun News and similar related materials. In order for me to purchase a current issue without subscribing I have to go to an "Adult" Bookstore! And yes, that's the only reason I go there. I get looked at like I'm a weirdo because I'm buying gun mags.America has lost her way.
Tell them to read THR instead. No nudity, and the information here is MILES ahead of anything you'll read in any gun rag.I had to concel my subsribisions to the gun magazines because of the nudity. My teenage boys liked to read the aritcles. I had to make a choice.
the stores around me have all but abandoned gun magazines period. I can't go to a drugstore, supermarket, or most media stores that sell magazines and even find copies of Shotgun News and similar related materials.
So.....you don't like pretty girls? What then do you like? I may be over the hill but I admire pretty girls and guns.....chris3
"PC" isn't ever-growing. PC peaked out about 10-15 years ago and is now a joke. Most of society has moved on.What aggravates me is the ever growing idea that everyone and everything in this county has to be PC.
so..... you want there to be ads of Scantily clad men holding firearms.....?Here in lies the problem. Scantily-clad women are used mostly to sell items... to men. Duh. Tools, motorcycles, and yes, guns. Which is great, except I'd like to see guns marketed to women at least as much as to men. These aren't the caveman days. Women are out in public just as much as men, and they're often alone and even more vulnerable than men. Women need self protection AT LEAST as much as men. And seriously, sticking a pink grip on a revolver is NOT the way to get women interested.
If you don't like sexuality used in advertising then don't buy from those advertisers. If enough people feel the same way the free market will take care of it. Just don't pressure the government to pass some law that infringes on the rights of others to publish or read whatever they want because you find it offensive.
You don't have a right to NOT to be offended.
Same here. It's unnecessary, and it would only make me second-guess my decision to buy a company's product, assuming I were planning to do so in the first place.
If you have a great product, you have everything you need. I can find pictures of attractive women elsewhere, if that's what I'm looking for. When I'm researching firearms, or just reading outdoors-related magazines or something, I don't need (or want) women on my mind.
Women "look" just as much as men do, they are just smarter and less obvious about it than we are.
Was there lots of ankle in the old Hotchkiss or Vickers ads? I've heard the Lewis is a babe magnet. Sorry Ian, had to do it.I think getting ruffled at the idea of a babe in a gun ad pretty well defines "prude".
Scantily Clad women and gun advertisements. acceptable or not?
And to make it THR relevant, the ads do NOT turn me off guns, or guys who shoot. Maybe we could get some male eye candy in there? (Are there any advertisers or editors reading this?) To get upset about it would be like going in a locker room and then getting mad when guys act like guys.
I think getting ruffled at the idea of a babe in a gun ad pretty well defines "prude".
I only get annoyed at them when it's one of those crappy photos with a model who clearly neither knows nor cares how to actually handle a firearms.