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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
Nobody. I just thought it was interesting given there was such disgust given the connection between “gun nut” and a compensation of masculinity, despite that connection being pretty founded.
Btimbit, captain, etc. All normal nut-free gun owners. I don’t know, “gun nut” means “gun nut” to me, not “average gun owner,” so I wasn’t sure why people got upset over the image. I don’t know many people who see a hunter bagging a deer and think “THURS A NUTTER!”
EDIT: I guess my question becomes: why do ordinary vanilla gun owners take any talk about “gun nuts” (their psychology, predispositions, etc) so personally and as an insult? Don’t you think you’re categorically different from that type of person?
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Because it is perhaps closer to an offensive stereotype as opposed to a sub category of a larger group? Try stopping for a moment and think what is associated with the stereotype of a gun nut. Why wouldn't you get annoyed and immediately jump in to disassociate yourself from that?
Imagine it is akin to something like making a stereotype about certain extremists for the entirety of a Muslim community or something and perhaps even worse. That is my understanding of it. It's a little more than gun owners being sensitive. It is that it is a connotation so negative that gun owners immediately want to clear the air and ensure it is known they want no association with that stereotype.