Students at the University of Texas are protesting the state’s campus carry law by brandishing dildos on the first day of classes.
“We’re fighting absurdity with absurdity,” sophomore Ana Lopez told the Austin American Statesman.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed Senate Bill 11 in June last year, which authorized individuals to carry concealed fire arms on college campuses, including in classrooms and dormitories. A lawsuit staged by aggrieved professors to block implementation of the bill recently failed. The law went into effect on Aug. 1. (RELATED: CCW Weekend: Texas Campus Carry Now In Effect But Campus Carry Debate Rages On)
Participants in the protests strapped dildos to their backpacks to signal solidarity with opponents of the law. Nearly 4,000 phallic pleasure pieces were donated to campus activists by sympathetic smut slingers around the country, including Hustler Hollywood and Austin-based Forbidden Fruit, a sex-positive kink space for wayward souls hot after leather and lube.
Approximately 100 students and faculty gathered at midday on the UT Austin west mall for a rally protesting the law and decrying the Texas legislature, wielding signs reading “Cocks Not Glocks.”
“If you pack heat, we’re packing meat!,” College Democrats coordinator Rosie Zander told an adoring throng, hoisting a bulging appendage of girth and length so extreme as to be a deadly weapon itself. “We’re going to make you as uncomfortable as we are (with guns).”
The campaign was organized by a group called Students Against Campus Carry.
“This protest has been a year in the making and along that road we’ve hit some hard bumps,” a post from organizers on the group’s Facebook page reads “but seeing all your awesome faces and copious amount of dildo-waving made it all worth it.”
Though a legal effort to stop the bill has faltered, UT professor Joan Neuberger told The New York Times says the student-led effort has done a great deal to stigmatize concealed carry. “Legally, we have probably lost, at least for now,” she said. “But culturally, they do a lot to stigmatize the behavior — to say you may have a right, but guns are not acceptable here.”
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