# Armed! And Proud of It! **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 26, 2014, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/armed-and-proud-of-it/696535 "2014-08-26T04:08:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2014, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/armed-and-proud-of-it/696535/21 "2014-08-26T13:50:08Z")
> [@Rachellelogram](#): > > Brothers, eh? Why don’t you think sisters should arm themselves? > [@BlakeHayner](#): > > When you hold your weapon in your hand have you ever felt powerful as I do? I think he’s talking about penises. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2014, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/armed-and-proud-of-it/696535/22 "2014-08-26T13:51:49Z")
> [@BlakeHayner](#): > > … balls of steel and hearts of Giraffe. Fortunately, this recipe didn’t make the cut list for the first edition of the _Betty Crocker Cookbook_. ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2014, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/armed-and-proud-of-it/696535/23 "2014-08-26T14:17:38Z")
I didn’t see the part about sending money to him to get the million dollars I won. ---
**Author:** ![Ranger\_Jeff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranger_jeff/32/2065_2.png) [@Ranger\_Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranger_Jeff)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2014, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/armed-and-proud-of-it/696535/24 "2014-08-26T14:23:56Z")
> [@GrumpyBunny](#): > > I’ve also felt the call of the warrior inside me. That happened to me the time I went to that All You Can Eat Burrito Bar. It took 2 days and 3 rolls of toilet paper before I got over it. ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2014, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/armed-and-proud-of-it/696535/25 "2014-08-26T14:42:55Z")
At least, we know from the grammar that the OP probably wrote it himself, and it’s not a recirculating cut-paste job… I wish people who write long diatribes would summarize their point at the end. ---
**Author:** ![Valgard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/7feea3/32.png) [@Valgard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Valgard)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2014, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/armed-and-proud-of-it/696535/26 "2014-08-26T14:45:47Z")
I didn’t know that Dr. Bronner and Ted Nugent had a child. ---
**Author:** ![Omar\_Little](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omar_little/32/269_2.png) [@Omar\_Little](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omar_Little)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2014, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/armed-and-proud-of-it/696535/27 "2014-08-26T14:55:24Z")
The fallacy of the OP’s argument is that he uses his own experience and history and assumes that all other “white, male Christians” have similar thoughts, beliefs and experiences as he has had. Just looking at his other post linked by **tonyfop** , and some of his comments in this OP, there are other factors that may have lead to his beliefs and experiences other than being a white, male Christian. ---
**Author:** ![MacTech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MacTech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacTech)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2014, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/armed-and-proud-of-it/696535/28 "2014-08-26T15:06:14Z")
I’m sure if the OP was aware of the demographics of the SDMB, and how we skew strongly Atheist, it’d make him recoil in horror 😉 Talk about missing your target audience… As for me? White? Yes Male? Yes Armed? Most definitely yes christian? Most definitely NOT! actually hard line Atheist/anti-theist ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2014, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/armed-and-proud-of-it/696535/29 "2014-08-26T15:09:00Z")
> [@jtur88](#): > > At least, we know from the grammar that the OP probably wrote it himself, and it’s not a recirculating cut-paste job… I wish people who write long diatribes would summarize their point at the end. Or better yet, the beginning. And then stop. ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2014, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/armed-and-proud-of-it/696535/30 "2014-08-26T15:12:59Z")
> [@Valgard](#): > > I didn’t know that Dr. Bronner and Ted Nugent had a child. Good one ---
**Author:** ![BlakeHayner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/cdc98d/32.png) [@BlakeHayner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlakeHayner)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2014, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/armed-and-proud-of-it/696535/31 "2014-08-26T15:16:20Z")
White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack by Peggy McIntosh Through work to bring materials from women’s studies into the rest of the curriculum, I have often noticed men’s unwillingness to grant that they are over privileged, even though they may grant that women are disadvantaged. They may say they will work to women’s status, in the society, the university, or the curriculum, but they can’t or won’t support the idea of lessening men’s. Denials that amount to taboos surround the subject of advantages that men gain from women’s disadvantages. These denials protect male privilege from being fully acknowledged, lessened, or ended. ## [copyrighted material deleted] Peggy McIntosh is associate director of the Wellesley College Center for Research on Women. This essay is excerpted from Working Paper 189. White Privilege and Male Privilege: A Personal Account of Coming To See Correspondences through Work in Women’s Studies (1988), by Peggy McIntosh; available for $4.00 from the Wellesley College Center for Research on Women, Wellesley MA 02181 The working paper contains a longer list of privileges. This excerpted essay is reprinted from the Winter 1990 issue of Independent School. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2014, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/armed-and-proud-of-it/696535/32 "2014-08-26T15:21:13Z")
Executive summary please! Not all of us have the attention span to… SQUIRREL! :: runs off in another direction :: ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2014, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/armed-and-proud-of-it/696535/33 "2014-08-26T15:23:14Z")
I’m just curious Blake, is this you??? [http://mankindprojectjournal.org/tag/blake-hayner/](http://mankindprojectjournal.org/tag/blake-hayner/) ---
**Author:** ![johnpost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f17d59/32.png) [@johnpost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnpost)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2014, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/armed-and-proud-of-it/696535/34 "2014-08-26T15:25:30Z")
i now feel so guilty and ashamed for breathing. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2014, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/armed-and-proud-of-it/696535/35 "2014-08-26T15:27:08Z")
OK, I’m convinced. White people suck. That’s what you’re going for here, right? eta: WE ARE BROTHERS! ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2014, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/armed-and-proud-of-it/696535/36 "2014-08-26T15:51:13Z")
Reported for possible Fair Use violation. And for making me scroll so fucking far. ---
**Author:** ![leftfield6](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leftfield6/32/18780_2.png) [@leftfield6](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leftfield6)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2014, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/armed-and-proud-of-it/696535/37 "2014-08-26T15:51:15Z")
Really? A list of 26 items? Either trim your list by one, or godddamnit, find another 4. For fucks sake, at least TRY to do this right. ---
**Author:** ![MacTech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MacTech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacTech)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2014, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/armed-and-proud-of-it/696535/38 "2014-08-26T15:52:53Z")
Blah blah blah… TL;DR ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2014, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/armed-and-proud-of-it/696535/39 "2014-08-26T15:53:25Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > Reported for possible Fair Use violation. And for making me scroll so fucking far. It’s definitely a violation of copyright. See the author’s PDF document [here](http://www.wcwonline.org/pdf/SEED_PMcopyrightpolicyemailversion.pdf). ---
**Author:** ![sparky\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/77aa72/32.png) [@sparky\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sparky_1)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2014, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/armed-and-proud-of-it/696535/40 "2014-08-26T15:56:57Z")
> [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](#): > > …What did I just read? Like, seriously - I have no freakin’ clue. I think it’s a plea to have less white male christians in America. Can I get an AMEN!!!? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/armed-and-proud-of-it/696535.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/armed-and-proud-of-it/696535.md?page=3)