Really?
Any gun shop owner in America with two neurons to rub together comprehends that females are one of the – if not the – fastest growing market segments in the firearm-owning community, and you go and decided it would be a fantastic idea to sponsor one of the "premier" exercises in objectifying women?
"Tone deaf" seems like a woefully underwhelming phrase to describe this particular notion of yours, but it is the best I can manage at the moment.
Well, maybe we can get Tam back down there for some updated pics.
(Going into hiding now.)
Wut?
Speaking of Tam, somehow I doubt this is still the same management/company that Tam has recommended in the past.
Geeze.
And it’s so sadly predictable. They gonna give a way a calendar too?
At least mix things up a bit. Have a twin event with a parade of man-meat.
I really don’t see what the problem is. I mean, don’t women willingly parade around in swimsuits at beauty pageants? Aren’t pageants pretty much the ne plus ultra of objectification of women as sexy, sensual, graceful?
I’m with Jack: make a complementary beefcake event for women and gay men, and claim equality.
I find the language they used irritating. Babes? Really? This is obviously geared towards bikers, seeing as it’s being held at a bike shop, but it’s really not something I’d look forward to even if they did have beefcake.
@ rickn8or: *snerk* Given how much she regrets the one picture in circulation…
@ The Jack: CCA was very recently bought out by another entity; this announcement came after the buy-out. My understanding is that most of the staff from the “old” CCA stuck around, so the gunsmithing and whatnot will still be as good as Tam remembers, but the management… well, I cannot recall CCA doing something like this in the past.
@ Erin Palette: The problem is that shooting guns is no longer a “man’s world”, if it ever even was… hell, it is not even an “adult’s world” any more, given how many families are recreationally shooting together, or crazy kids like Microsecond Molly. Gos-se like this only perpetuates the hopefully dying perception of gun shops as places with posters of scantily-clad women unsafely handling firearms plastered on the walls, that that is something I think we could honestly do without.
If there were an additional contest for men, I would be less annoyed, but it still hardly seems like something a firearm shop should be bothering with.
@ GarandGal: And that is part of my problem, really – there was no way to pull off sponsoring something like this without pissing someone off. Sponsoring a ride for charity or somesuch, though? Almost universal appeal, and still gets you in with the biker crowd.
Good god man, grow a pair!!! It’s a frickin’ biker event, or more accurately, wanna-be biker. You really should read what’s behind Huffman’s QOTD: http://blog.joehuffman.org/2012/10/12/QuoteOfTheDayGeorgeMacDonaldFraser.aspx
Do you REALLY think that very many women who are going to consider and/or already are shooting are going to give a rat’s ass about a bikini contest? Really? Because I’ve never really noticed a streak of radical feminism amongst the gun ladies. The gun ladie’s personal modesty may keep them out of any bikini contests, but decrying it in fear of rad-fem prudishness? Nah.
I am sorry*, but I simply cannot take someone seriously when they appear to believe that “grow a pair” is a convincing argument for anything other than their own marked idiocy. The problem only worsens when he is obviously completely ignorant of that of which he is speaking. Run along, moronic-but-aptly-named troll, and waste someone else’s time.
(* – Actually, no I am not, but that phrase does appear to be a conversational construct.)