{"id":160,"date":"2007-09-28T19:08:41","date_gmt":"2007-09-28T23:08:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2007\/09\/28\/not-tickled-pink-about-girlish-pink-guns\/"},"modified":"2010-03-13T03:14:53","modified_gmt":"2010-03-13T07:14:53","slug":"not-tickled-pink-about-girlish-pink-guns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2007\/09\/28\/not-tickled-pink-about-girlish-pink-guns\/","title":{"rendered":"Not Tickled Pink About Girlish Pink Guns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wish I were making this up but, alas, I&#8217;m not &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ananova.com\/news\/story\/sm_2524635.html\">pink guns for girls.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Firearms shops in the US are stocking pink rifles and shotguns to encourage girls to get into shooting. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>They include a Remington 20-gauge shotgun with a pink and black stock emblazoned with the slogan: &#8220;Shoot like a girl if you can!&#8221; &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Females want to shoot guns, but they want them to look pretty, too,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Guys could give a rat&#8217;s butt what their gun looks like.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I think it&#8217;s time to take aim at those guns with a limerick:<\/p>\n<p>Not Tickled Pink About Girlish Pink Guns<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>Would you like your young daughter to shoot?<br \/>\nSimply buy her a shotgun that&#8217;s cute.<br \/>\nBut be sure that it&#8217;s pink.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s so pretty, she&#8217;ll think.<br \/>\nBreeding killers\u2014a stylish pursuit.<\/p>\n<p>(You can find <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/feminist_humor.html\">more of my feminist humor here<\/a>, my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/marriage.html\">family humor here,<\/a> and my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/pocket_bikes.html\">outdoor sports humor here.<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wish I were making this up but, alas, I&#8217;m not &#8212; pink guns for girls. Firearms shops in the US are stocking pink rifles and shotguns to encourage girls to get into shooting. &#8230; They include a Remington 20-gauge shotgun with a pink and black stock emblazoned with the slogan: &#8220;Shoot like a girl [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[121,122,6,88],"tags":[1217,1216,1209,1218,1215,1207,1214,1206,1213,1211,1208,1212,1210],"class_list":["post-160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-feminism-humor","category-firearms-guns-humor","category-political-limericks","category-social-satire","tag-breeding-killers","tag-daughters","tag-firearms","tag-firearms-shops","tag-girls","tag-gun-humor","tag-hunter-humor","tag-pink-guns","tag-pink-remington","tag-rifles","tag-sexist-humor","tag-shoot-like-a-girl","tag-shotguns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2497,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions\/2497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}