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(25,699 posts)giftedgirl77
(4,713 posts)NBachers
(17,007 posts)mwrguy
(3,245 posts)The gun mfgr that the ad is for. Hence the DD printed on the gun.
NBachers
(17,007 posts)DhhD
(4,695 posts)A assault weapon in one hand and a serpent in the other.
mwrguy
(3,245 posts)billh58
(6,635 posts)Noir -- a weekly program aired by the National Rifle Association as part of its efforts to reach a younger audience -- has run two segments that fetishize an assault weapon as an attractive woman.
Over the past year the NRA has launched a number of initiatives to engage with women, minorities, and younger Americans. Noir, a Sunday web series hosted by popular gun blogger turned NRA News commentator Colion Noir, is packaged for a Millennial audience, although the show has been widely mocked by critics as a phony and out-of-touch attempt at messaging.
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Earlier this season Noir used a similar format of objectifying women by reducing them to descriptions of assault weapons in an advertisement for manufacturer Daniel Defense. Gun manufacturer Mossberg and Daniel Defense are the two primary sponsors of NRA Freestyle, which airs Noir and other NRA web series and is the home of the NRA's lifestyle blog NRA Sharp.
The Daniel Defense advertisement, which aired during Noir earlier this season, also features a voice-over of Noir as he seems to describe a woman. At the end of the ad, however, it is revealed that Noir was instead describing the M4-A1 assault weapon.
So yes, the NRA is using these ads as a smarmy marketing tool by comparing women to guns...
WhoIsNumberNone
(7,875 posts)It's along similar lines.
billh58
(6,635 posts)the female equivalent of Wayne LaPierre and Ted Nugent combined: venomous, vitriolic, and vacuum-headed, but a darling of Faux Snooze.
the NRA might not approve?
Whoever it's "for", I think it's stupid. Of course, I think the worship and obsession with tools of death is stupid too.
WhoIsNumberNone
(7,875 posts)I mean they're really beating it hard. Probably even getting some chafing. I fully expect this to be a porn genre soon if it isn't already.
erpowers
(9,350 posts)These groups see women as a new customer base. In addition, more women are getting into guns. It seems that so many women are buying guns and taking gun classes that shooting ranges and gun groups are trying to get more female gun instructors.
blackspade
(10,056 posts)That was aweful. And fucking creepy.