My computer has eaten very long and in-depth opening posts on this THREE times, now, so, in frustration, the short-and-sweet version:
http://jezebel.com/5866602/can-you-...m_medium=recirculation&utm_campaign=tuesdayAM
Questions:
1) Anyone here have a more positive perspective on these mags?
2) Should there be some sort of awareness campaign about the misogynist, rape-y nature of these mags?
http://jezebel.com/5866602/can-you-...m_medium=recirculation&utm_campaign=tuesdayAM
Researchers gave a group of men and women quotes from the British lad mags FHM, Loaded, Nuts and Zoo, as well as excerpts from interviews with actual convicted rapists originally published in the book The Rapist Files. The participants couldn't reliably identify which statements came from magazines and which from rapists [...]
Questions:
1) Anyone here have a more positive perspective on these mags?
2) Should there be some sort of awareness campaign about the misogynist, rape-y nature of these mags?