[WS:] Maybe, but I think the contexts & appeals are very different. In the US gun is mostly a fetish for everyone - so a woman with a gun is not very shocking. In fact, it is the conventional role of women in gun and auto magazines aimed mainly for working class men.
In the bourgeois German culture, the only 'acceptable' roles for women were the whore and the mother - none of which could act in public places. So women not only acting in such places, but also taking on the ultimate "male" role - that of a warrior - must have been an absolute shock to that culture.
A comparison can be drawn to "Thelma & Louise" - a "chick flick" in which women talk and shoot back before driving off the cliff - which can be disturbing to the typical reader of guns & car magazines. However, RAF was different in that it was not just two chicks acting rebellious, but men and women acting together and on equal terms in what used to be the exclusively male domain (cf. the male duo of Marx &Engels)
Wojtek
On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 10:37 AM, Dennis Perrin <dperrin at comcast.net> wrote:
> Shorter Wojtek: Hot women waving rifles makes for hot copy. I agree. The
> American right has tried this angle, most recently with Sarah Palin, but
> like most reactionary stunts, it's a flaccid imitation of the leftist
> original.
>
> Dennis
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