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Blam!

OK, everybody. Pile on Charles.

Posted by It's Mark Mitchell | August 14, 2007 2:01 PM
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I'd be stunned if there's a soldier in the world who doesn't carry a pair of wire cutters, be they a Leatherman, Gerber, or the standard issue Kalashnikov bayonet (which can be attached to the scabbard to form a set of wire cutters).

What was the point here, exactly?

Posted by Lee Gibson | August 14, 2007 2:27 PM
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Points are for fools!

Posted by Mr. Poe | August 14, 2007 2:31 PM
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Hawt Israeli chicks with big guns FTW! YUM!

Posted by NaFun | August 14, 2007 2:35 PM
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Hmm...wire cutters, even symbolically, are to let oppressed people out to freedome and endless space. Wouldn't you say the IDF wants to fence areas in and not, as wire cutters would allow, open them up?

Posted by Miss Stereo | August 14, 2007 2:38 PM
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Does it matter? Look at the hawt chicks!

http://israelmilitary.net/showthread.php?t=13

Posted by NaFun | August 14, 2007 2:39 PM
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My bad. Carry on.

Posted by Miss Stereo | August 14, 2007 2:52 PM
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Hellz yeah!
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Posted by christopher | August 14, 2007 2:52 PM
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*shakes head*

Last month Maxim had a "Girls of the IDF" spread....

Posted by thecandyqueen | August 14, 2007 2:54 PM
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I'm gonna avoid the guns and Israeli soldiers, and instead focus on the video that Charles linked to. That is one extraordinary performance of one incredible piece of music. Mingus grew up dirt poor in the Watts ghetto, and he was understandably angry as hell at the race hatred that was directed to him and his family from all sides. He took that rage, absorbed the lessons of jazz, listened intensely to the most expressive of the classical composers, and wrote some of the most powerful music of the 20th century. The powerful expression of a desire for change has done as much in its way to liberate people as either wire cutters or guns.

Posted by Gurldoggie | August 14, 2007 2:57 PM
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gurldoggie- Sorry we can't be so high-minded as you. External genitalia keep getting in the way.

Posted by christopher | August 14, 2007 3:02 PM
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My read on "these" (this) meditation is:

Guns: Phallic; objects of dominance
Wire-cutters: anti-Phallic; objects of castration

Always have been, alway will be.

As women, the photos' "subjects" should be playing a more appropriately symbolic / symbolically appropriate role. Charles is saying that the behavior of the women is an a-ffront on nature and also they are hot.

Posted by Jude Fawley | August 14, 2007 3:32 PM
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High-minded Shmigh-minded. Just watch the video and tell me you're not blown away.

Posted by Gurldoggie | August 14, 2007 3:56 PM
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Wow...first hot stormtroopers and now hot gun-toting Israeli babes. Where was the Slog when I was in junior high, dammnit!

Posted by Need A Cold Shower | August 14, 2007 3:56 PM
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judy, you got my meaning. i really did have that in mind. picturing them with the instruments against (rather than for) male domination. i'm not kidding. that is it.

Posted by charles | August 14, 2007 4:06 PM
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This Israeli women soldier fetish is getting out of control. I joked about it like 10 years ago, and somehow people still fetishize this shit. It's universal military conscription, not porn. It's like sexualizing the whole Israeli population.

Posted by Jay | August 14, 2007 4:12 PM
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It's like sexualizing the whole Israeli population.

I'm sorry, how do you figure that exactly?

Posted by Judah | August 14, 2007 4:28 PM
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Dude, we fetishize a lot of shit. Hot chicks in the desert with guns is just hot any way you slice it.

Posted by NaFun | August 14, 2007 4:39 PM
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Judah: Every one of age has to serve in the IDF. So saying "look how hot Israeli chicks are in uniform" is a lot like fetishizing every girl of a certain age in the country. And while this may not be the whole country, it's a whole generation that's being turned into pinups. Do American men really need to start collecting images of women serving in the IDF? It's fucking creepy.

Furthermore, uniforms should confer some measure of egalitarian respect. Sexualizing it defeats the whole idea of a society of equals fighting for its common defense. It makes a joke of it. Is it any wonder Israel has massive sexual harassment scandals in the military and within the state when women are just seen as dolled up toy soldiers.

If you want to get off on it, go ahead. It's still dumb shit. People will jerk off to National Geographic. :)

Posted by Jay | August 14, 2007 5:22 PM
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@4, @18 - actually, women in uniform are really sexy. It's a shame most guys are scared of them, but that's their problem.

Posted by Will in Seattle | August 14, 2007 5:48 PM
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@15 (assuming you are the actual Charles Mudede) - Whoo hoo! I win! I win! I wish I could somehow turn my new-found gift of interpretation into money though...

Posted by Jude Fawley | August 14, 2007 8:42 PM
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as much as i find the vast majority of those girls hot (and despite my tastes running along the lines of dark hair and dark eyes) i still think rachel corrie was much hotter.

but then again i guess i'm just a big ole (half jewish, depending on whom you ask) hippie dyke at heart.

Posted by jezbian | August 14, 2007 11:37 PM
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Israelis with guns are not hot. They're intimidating at best, and entitled, racist and murderous at worst.

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