So I spent 20 minutes of my drive up 83 to work this morning watching a set of these swinging to and fro below the license plate of a black Ford pickup in front of me:
Now, let me just state that I get the joke: "My truck's so manly it's got balls."
Har-dee-har-har.
But as I drove behind this truck, I felt myself getting more annoyed by the second. Questions started flooding my brain.
What would I have said to my 9-year-old niece if she had been with me and asked, "Aunt Katy, what are those?" (I probably would've lied and said, "I'm not sure, honey. It kinda looks like a dog bone.")
What does the driver in front of me say to the women in his life about them? (And I am sure it was a man driving — I finally passed him in disgust when I got the chance. He was a 50-something dude with a brown coat and a beard.)
Why is there no female body part a woman could put on her car to show she's got guts? (And even if there were, as a friend at work pointed out, women probably wouldn't do that to their cars anyway.)
And just what is it about our culture exactly that causes some men to feel the need to put a set of Truck Nuts, Bull's Balls or Bumper Nuts — according to the many Web sites selling them in all sorts of colors and variations online — ON THEIR TRUCK?
It's illegal for men to whip those parts of their body out in public.
Is this really so different?
I don't think so.
So please, 50-something dude with the black Ford truck with a New York license plate, zip up your pickup's pants.
Apparently, these are popular in my native Western Md. A lawmaker from that area tried to make them illegal, but nobody went for it.
http://www.wjla.com/news/stories/0307/403646.html
I find these things a bit disturbing, I must say. And, frankly, quite distgusting. I mean there are already so many theories behind why men buy large pickups ... now they add these as accessories? Seriously?
I strongly agree with the author of this blog! She has given a voice to my formerly unvoiced annoyance! Thank you for having the, um, guts to write this blog.