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dixiegrrrrl

(60,010 posts)
Mon Aug 26, 2013, 03:19 PM Aug 2013

What would weapons look like if women designed them?

Had a discussion this am....
someone pointed out that weapons all seem to be phallic symbols....
cannon muzzles firing balls, bullets/rockets shaped like penis-y things, etc.

But if women designed weapons....
booby traps came immediately to mind...

what else.....

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What would weapons look like if women designed them? (Original Post) dixiegrrrrl Aug 2013 OP
High heels. Arctic Dave Aug 2013 #1
I have no idea. Xyzse Aug 2013 #2
From 2007... PoliticAverse Aug 2013 #3
They'd be more colorful Auggie Aug 2013 #4
pink ? jakeXT Aug 2013 #5
This >> BlueJazz Aug 2013 #6
If women spent a few thousand years rrneck Aug 2013 #7
Physics dictates the design. Denninmi Aug 2013 #14
poision dropped in a drink, snakes placed in the bed. n/t Tuesday Afternoon Aug 2013 #8
I don't know if there HappyMe Aug 2013 #9
They would be shaped like candyfloss and filled with scorpions and hate. nt Demo_Chris Aug 2013 #10
Most women I know (myself included) Marie Marie Aug 2013 #11
True, that. dixiegrrrrl Aug 2013 #15
LOL - "booby traps" ConcernedCanuk Aug 2013 #12
You can't improve upon perfection! DeSwiss Aug 2013 #13
Great pic!!! dixiegrrrrl Aug 2013 #16

Xyzse

(8,217 posts)
2. I have no idea.
Mon Aug 26, 2013, 03:27 PM
Aug 2013

Thing is, I think women are smart, and so in regards to weapons, particularly projectile based, they would be pretty similar.

I tend to equate most weapon design a function of form. So arrows would not have worked otherwise.
Bullets have to consider air resistance and so forth.

So a point is generally needed.

The only one I could think of that is completely meant to be shaped like a penis is the kpinga.
Sure, there are weapons that are given designs to look kinda like that, but it is mostly a secondary trait to the function.

Any how, this was interesting which suggested that women designed weapons to compete with men.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1543566/Women-made-weapons-to-compete-with-men.html

rrneck

(17,671 posts)
7. If women spent a few thousand years
Mon Aug 26, 2013, 04:29 PM
Aug 2013

swinging clubs and swords the would probably invent some sort of standoff projectile weapon.

In other words, they'd invent what we've got.

dixiegrrrrl

(60,010 posts)
15. True, that.
Tue Aug 27, 2013, 11:45 AM
Aug 2013

And silence as a weapon, too.

Can you just see it....." I am not speaking to you, Syria".....

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