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Lumisal@lemmy.world 3 days agoReplacing “gun” with “press” for example.
Alternatively, caulker, stapler, nailer, gluer, tattooer, and finger pointers. Fingers also usually don’t launch projectiles I think. It’s just that gun culture is so embedded in your brain you couldn’t think of an alternative.
Note how these are all construction tools, and construction is also usually worked by men there. Yet more traditionally feminine tools don’t get the “gun” additive; most will say spray bottle for example rather than spray gun, even though it also has a trigger (a literal gun-like one in some cases) and shoots out a projectile.
WhiteOakBayou@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I think press works for Caulk and glue. Stapler is used already for the machine that sits on a desk as opposed to the hand held construction style. Finger pointers is certainly descriptive but when people do “finger guns” the thumb usually mimics the hammer action. What else are they miming? Am I so inundated with gun culture I was unable to think of another use for the thumb?
I think bottles were around before firearms but Staple, nail and Caulk guns were not.
Lumisal@lemmy.world 3 days ago
They’re both staplers - one’s just manual and the other isn’t.
Spray bottles did not exist before guns, no.
bilb@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
They both put staples into things but they aren’t really interchangeable functionally. It makes sense to distinguish them depending on the context.
WhiteOakBayou@lemmy.world 2 days ago
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