Excerpt from my latest Counter Cultured article:
This Valentine’s Day, fashion magazine Cosmopolitan has a message for women: make sure your guy tones down or abandons his support for gun rights or else he’s going to harm you.
Cosmo’s gun control puff piece “It’s Time to Talk About What Guns Have to Do With Dating” encourages their female audience to talk to their guys about the dangers of firearms from a “gun safety”, disarmament perspective.
This shouldn’t come as a surprise to everyone. Cosmopolitan, like other publications in the tank for radical feminism, has an agenda: paint the shooting sports industry and its members–particularly men–as crazed loons who love their firearms. To make their case, they use the pejorative term “gunsplainer” to describe men who admire firearms, their history, their functionality, and their utility for self-protection.
The author, self-described award-winning journalist and author Liz Welch, heavily relies on Everytown for Gun Safety’s talking points to suggest that single women are likely to be in harm’s way if they date guys who own guns. In fact, the magazine and Michael Bloomberg’s anti-gun outfit had recently announced their new partnership called, “SingledOut.” SingledOut.org’s website reads, “Lax gun laws put single women at risk. But, together, we can shut down the gunsplainers and take action to keep young women safe. Spread the word by sharing this site with your friends and family.”
Continue reading at Counter Cultured.
