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10 July 2006
WARNING TRUCKERS If you visit this adult bookstore we will take your picture and send it to your employer
War-Line is serious about fighting organizations that lend to pornography, destroy lives and families in our communities around the country. As you well know, nude/bikini bars and adult book stores are two organizations that cause much of the pain and suffering in our society. In addition, they tend to lead to sexual assault due to the "frenzy from aroused men" that frequent these locations.
We plan to frequent these locations with cameras and if you wish to enter a nude/bikini bar or adult book store, your photo could wind up on our site! How would you like for your mother, wife, father, children, pastor or others to see your photo on the world-wide web as you enter one of these establishments? Think twice before you plan to visit one of these facilities or you could "Get Busted" on War-Line.
Hellooooooooooooooo - Is anyone awake out there? Statistics are pretty revealing. Porn shops and strip joints are demeaning to women and promote sexual violence. “Oh well” and “who cares” and “life sucks” attitudes promote the erroneous belief that people who are sexually assaulted and raped recover okay. Sexual Assault and Rape Hurt Forever.....and Ever. The damage is severe and long term. War-Line is going to try to make a difference.
I like how they try to frame their conservative/religious theme under an "anti-rape" cloak. When I went to check out their website I was expecting some kind of moral wanking site, what I didn't expect to see first thing was the whole "anti-rape" thing. Right on! I'm anti-rape too!! WOOT! now tell me again how this relates to porn stores, and how shutting down the porn industry will stop rape? Yeesh, mental midgets to say the least.
And what's with that tagline: War Against Rape Let It Never End"?
Why don't they want the war against rape to end? If they succeed in stopping rape, wouldn't the war, by nature of victory, end? I know the Bush Administration has sort of redefined war as something without an end-point, but generally the idea is to end the war once it's won.
If they really don't want it to end, they're going to have to start raping people themselves, so they have an enemy to fight against. Or at least let some of the rapists out every once in a while for a quick controlled foxhunt-style thing.
And what's with that tagline: War Against Rape Let It Never End"?
Me3, what we have here is a desperate attempt to attain legitimacy by naming the organization with an acronym (WAR-LINE). All good community groups need one.
*starts watching Debbie Does Dallas in solidarity.*
Shit!. . .now I am REALLY sorry a meetup didn't happen.
(pips. . I know you have the novel blocked out (as in outlined, not as in avoiding thinking about it), but there HAS to be room for some guys like the ones in that photo in there somewhere. . .a cameo, anything)
Is there already an erotica section devoted to truck stops? Because if there isn't there ought to be, there's so much of it. Tailpipe Truckers springs immediately to mind, unfortunately.
Does anyone else remember a "novelty song" called Truck Stop Butt Fuck? As in "bend you over and grease you up," or did I just imagine this in order to make a comment in this thread?
I swear if I lived close to this, I would go and just hang around across from them and take pictures of them. Over and over. Until they snapped. It would be great fun and you know it wouldn't take much to set the uptight old fools off.
I'm with you, weretable. I keep thinking how much fun it'd be to take a busload of trucker-looking guys (yes, I know that many) to mill around in front of the store all day when this crew is there. And give them all cameras. That would be incredibly fun.
Conservatives using the rhetoric of anti-rape to frame an anti-pornography agenda began in the 1980s when they latched onto the anti-porn civil rights ordinances fostered by a branch of the feminist movement [editorial comment: not my branch] that sought to ban pornography as a violation of women's civil rights. Doing so made them seem less like right-wing fundy wackos and more acceptable, like they were trying to protect women. It's interesting to me, 20 years after having studied this in a very academic and intellectual setting, to see the rhetoric still alive and well on the side of a rural highway.
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