Maybe we should have a "lampshades/subversions only" rule on the examples. I've Seen It A Million Times, but I agree this can't turn into every use of a gun ever because that's People Sit On Chairs.
edited 12th Mar '14 3:32:11 AM by needsanewhobby
Hi
It needs to be two things: 1) Actual phallic symbols used as weapons (a dildo sword happens in later chapters of Girly, for example) and 2) discussions/lampshades of the weapons' phallic imagery. Anything else needs to go.
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Wouldn't those be covered by Compensating for Something?
The "compensating" part is not there for nothing. So no.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
Agree with Willbyr. That's the best way to do this. Maybe with a soft split in the middle.
Reality is that, which when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -Philip K. Dick
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...ow *wince*
Hurler of Swine
Given that any weapon longer than it is wide is going to get construed by someone as a phallic symbol (because Everyone Is Jesus in Purgatory and Freud Was Right), we need to have some method of limitation, although I'm undecided on precisely what.
edited 12th Apr '14 4:30:04 PM by Pig_catapult
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Make it In-universe only.
...if you don’t love you’re dead, and if you do, they’ll kill you for it.
Lakija
I agree with that. If the characters in a work perceive some weapon as phallic shaped, then it should count. However, the audience thinking that a weapon is such a shape is highly subjective. People have a tendency to see sexual things everywhere.
Obvious weapons, however, like the Saints Row Dildo Sword, should also be added.
It is what it is.
I agree, there can be an exception for literal phalic weapons. Maybe with a soft split.
Reality is that, which when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -Philip K. Dick
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This thread's gone limp, let's clock it and see if it gets any action.
edited 14th May '14 6:04:40 AM by Willbyr
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Clock's up; locking up.
Sent this trope through TRS before, but didn't fix the main issue. There are several problems, but the rest can't be dealt with until it's determined if it's tropeworthy (because of People Sit On Chairs). From the description: "Guns, cannons, swords, daggers... they're all penises." Sums it pretty well, not to mention getting into how it's used really and symbolically which adds to the qualifying examples.