The Seven Most Sexist Gun Ads

[Robb]

Robb's Important Note: This Is Not Satire.

Swiffer’s appropriation of a feminist icon and their quick backtrack is the latest reminder of how sexism is still alive and well in advertising. Famously prevalent in car commercials and video game marketing, sexist advertising takes a character of its own in the gun industry’s marketing, feeding off exploitative images of women and starkly violent visions of masculinity.











Read More: http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/06/10/2118071/sexist-gun-ads/

[Tom Ripley]

1. Those all look like those could have come from The National Lampoon's golden age

Do gun buffs not realize how much contempt that manufacturers have for them?

[Hoyt]

2. It's amazing how the manufacturers and marketeers have profiled their marks as immature, repressed,

under-educated, paranoid, white (hence bigoted), and the like.

To validate -- go to a gun store, gun show, range, etc., and the marketeers have hit their targets.

[oneshooter]

3. Since you are white are you"hence bigoted". Or is it only gun owners?

I tend to believe that you are very self descriptive.

[AsahinaKimi]

4. Yikes..

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