Are you offended by those fake balls some people hang from their back bumpers?

Question

I personally think they are extremely in bad taste and find it disgusting. I have real balls myself but wouldn't ever think of pretending that my truck has a set....Of all the things in this world deemed inappropriate and offensive, I CANNOT BELIEVE that legislators haven't enacted a law making these illegal. Not only are they offensive especially to younger kids but they are distracting to motorists as well. If you have never seen them just do a search for FAKE BALLS and you will see what I mean..YUK!

If you are a parent you will most likely agree with me. Just imagine the embarrassment of driving behind a vehicle with a fake set of balls hanging there and as long as you are stuck behind that jerk you have to look at that disgusting car ornament. And then the kids think its funny and all but it draws kids'attention to the male genatelia. I guess next is big fake boobs or a big hairy vagina on girl cars! What say you?

Answer 1

When I see someone with these hanging from their car, or with something else offensive (like the cartoon character peeing on someone), I just consider it a sign that the person is a low-class twit with the brains of a louse and act accordingly: I stay out of their way and let them do their thing. Nothing else I can do.

Personally, that sort of thing doesn't embarass me, and when I see something like that when I'm in the company of my daughter, I use it as a teachable moment. I explain to her that people do judge others by such things, and that we want to be careful about such things because they might cause us problems. For example, if you went to a job interview driving a car that had these, and someone with decision power to hire you saw them, what might they think? If they're doing things like taking their kids to soccer practice or such, what are the other parents likely to think of them?

There's also this aspect of it: when you put something like this on your car, you are drawing attention to yourself from everyone-- including the cops. And if a cop doesn't like this sort of thing, he/she will find a reason to pull you over.

Anyone who thinks that cops don't react to things they don't like should check this out: http://www.trivia-library.com/b/human-behavior-experiments-black-panthers-and-the-police.htm

It just might not be a good idea to make your car a rolling advertisement for machismo and bad taste. JMO.

Answer 2

I hadn't seen these yet, until the question, but honestly, either a child will know what they are or they won't. I don't think they're really such a curiosity that a child would ask, "what's that," and if they do, you could always simply answer, "I don't know." I've definitely seen many worse car ornaments in my time.

PS - I live in Texas, and I still had to look them up on the Internet. I can't imagine that I haven't been behind hundreds of trucks with these and never even noticed, myself.

Answer 3

I suspect that we've been rather conditioned by hours upon hours of the evening news programs to equate being offended and being "outraged" with being right. As a result, we get people who, in their desperate need to be right, say things that are apt to produce a response that they find offensive. For example: "Do you athiest know that ure gonna go to hell?" is the sort of question that I mean. Posters of that will be attacked on the basis of their grammar and spelling alone, which will afford them the luxury of a sense of persecution and the thrill of righteous indignation.

Answer 4

I haven't seen that but yeah- it's sounds tacky.

Answer 5

I agree. They are disgusting.

Answer 6

Oh, lighten up! Half the population has a set of real ones. You have to admit, they do bring a smile to one's face.