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Blogs > rm_debluvz2fck > Another Whisper In The Dark

Common Sense (or Why Some Shirts SHOULD Stay On)  

rm_debluvz2fck 55F
232 posts
9/7/2014 9:45 pm
Common Sense (or Why Some Shirts SHOULD Stay On)
Some things make sense. Others don't.

Why, when you're trying to say that something shouldn't be allowed, would you choose an unappealing example of what you would prefer as an alternative? I saw this one and felt compelled to comment.

Kroger, a grocery store chain, allows customers to open carry guns where the laws of the respective states do not prohibit it. Kroger has, though, put into place policies that do not allow people to eat while shopping (discouraging theft), skateboard (discouraging security issues), or topless (discouraging unhygienic practices... don't make me explain). The gun control or anti- Second Amendment lobbyists chose to show how ludicrous the juxtaposition of these positions was in the form of pictures.

On the face of it, comparing an individual carrying a rifle indoors in public would seem to be more disconcerting on all counts. Wait for it.

They chose a morbidly obese man with substantial bodily hair to portray shopping in the store with a slight if apparently angry woman carrying the rifle. Now, I pondered this picture. Which would I truly find more disturbing? Thinking hard on the matter, I still preferred seeing the woman with the rifle. I'd prefer seeing her anywhere than the man they chose to show topless. I'd prefer to see the pictures of Miley Cyrus in her pasties at the Kroger before seeing him and am sure I'm not alone in that, even among the women who, like me, aren't attracted to other women.

But that leads me to wonder who chose this man of all of the men who could be photographed topless in juxtaposition to the woman with the rifle. Were all of the men who were in any way attractive to those of the opposite or same sex opposed to the idea that they shouldn't be allowed to carry at Kroger? Could they not find one attractive man willing to take his shirt off for the cause?

I include the picture so you, too, can determine which you find more disturbing. My apologies if anyone is scarred for life.
CynicusMaximus 52M
1844 posts
9/9/2014 6:00 am

 LOL.. DOUBLE STANDARD!!
He's not morbidly obese.. I mean he can still get up from his couch, but I think it offers perspective. I think the guy is equally as offensive as the gun.


rm_debluvz2fck replies on 9/10/2014 9:08 am:
Morbidly obese isn't just someone who can't get off of the couch. That guy would definitely qualify. They use calipers, and that gut of his would set him in the morbidly obese category quite firmly. You're being generous in saying he offends you only as much as she does.

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