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Pink Camo

11/13/2014

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I hate it. 

I hate pink guns. Pink bows and arrows. Pink camo. 

Give me blued cold hard steel and wooden stocks and grips any day. 

If I were going to wear camo, I would choose the stuff I grew up with-- the odie green, black, and brown of my Daddy's BDUs. 

I think...I think, I may have put my finger on why I hate pink guns and camo this afternoon. I was flipping through the Sportsman's Guide and growling about "pink camo" same as I do when I see gun ads with pink guns. (Okay, so I'm a bit of a snob and seriously poke my nose in the air at baby pink weapons [one of my least favorite colors to begin with].)

It's this: "they" are trying to feminize, to make girly, things that are intrinsically not "girly". Blood and guts are not girly...they are filthy.

Don't get me wrong. I love guns.  
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I even love shooting while looking very much a girl:
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I know how to dirty my hands with blood and guts...and I don't flinch at it.
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(So, I actually enjoy dressing out chickens...there's a knack to it.)

Shoot, I even skinned out and dressed a raccoon before turning his hide into a bag!
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BUT...it's not "girly". 

You can't accuse me of being anti-gun or anti-hunting or anything like that. I believe women should know how to shoot. I believe they should know how to protect themselves. I think it is wise for women to know how to hunt. (Confession: I have never actually been hunting. My six dead coons and chickens do not count.) 

However, I think if it takes pink to get them to touch a firearm, that they just may be better off leaving be. Guns are weapons. Guns are tools. Guns are not "girly". They are strong. Strong is not girly. Strong may be feminine, but girly and feminine are two different things in my book.

So...I hate pink camo. I am a snob. Thank-you. 

Let's go shooting...
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     Racheal

P.S. If you just love baby pink and have scads of pink camo and weapons...it's okay. :) You may feel free to think me a jerk. That's okay too. I know I can be rather weird and stubborn on issues that really are not that important in the scope of things.

May we never surrender our 2nd Amendment Rights. Baby pink guns and everything. 
1 Comment
Sandra Sullivan
11/15/2014 02:42:37 am

Racheal, I love you!! This was a great piece and I understand what you are getting at. You made me smile and laugh with an important message. I like pink but not in weaponry. Give me the hard cold blued steel, wooden stocks and grips as well :-) Love the pics and captions.

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