What’s the difference between a lad mag and a rapist? Aside from one being a magazine and the other a person, albeit an reprehensible one, apparently not very much.
In a study soon to be published in the British Journal of Psychology, researchers at Middlesex University and the University of Surrey showed people quotes about women from British lad mags (FHM, Loaded, Nuts and Zoo) and from convicted rapists. Most survey respondents – men and women both – could not tell the difference between the quotes from the magazines and the quotes from the rapists. And most of the male respondents identified more with the quotes from the rapists than from the lad mags.
Here are some of the quotes the survey respondents were asked to react to. (You can find more at Jezebel.) Can you tell which of these are from rapists or lad mags?
Mascara running down the cheeks means they’ve just been crying, and it was probably your fault . . . but you can cheer up the miserable beauty with a bit of the old in and out.
You’ll find most girls will be reluctant about going to bed with somebody or crawling in the back seat of a car . . . But you can usually seduce them, and they’ll do it willingly.
Some girls walk around in short-shorts . . . showing their body off . . . It just starts a man thinking that if he gets something like that, what can he do with it?
I think girls are like plasticine, if you warm them up you can do anything you want with them.
In case you’re wondering, the correct answers are: Lad mag, Rapist, Rapist, Lad Mag.
Creepy, eh?
Lead researcher Miranda Horvath of Middlesex University explains why she feels this is so troubling:
Rapists try to justify their actions, suggesting that women lead men on, or want sex even when they say no, and there is clearly something wrong when people feel the sort of language used in a lads’ mag could have come from a convicted rapist.
I would say so.
And so, you might wonder, how did the regulars on the Men’s Rights subreddit react this this research? Take a look.
The comment with the most upvotes offered some nice juicy denial:
The comment with the second-highest number of upvotes completely missed the point:
And then there was this hot mess:
In case anyone is wondering, that quote from French is actually a quote from a character in one of her novels. And it’s pretty easy to distinguish it from things posted on Jezebel, because none of the writers on Jezebel ever say anything even remotely like that.
The Men’s Rights subreddit, responding to evidence of rape culture by going “la la la I can’t hear you” since March 2008.
NWOslave?
It must be tough to reconcile the thoughts “rape hardly ever really happens” and “women get raped all the time because they deserve it” constantly.
We’re not talking about huge intellects here though, are we Holly?
In his most recent thread “Missing the Fear,” Dalrock and his merry band of mysogonistic drooges actually claim that women who sashay around “bad neighborhoods” in slutty attire are “asking for it,” then have the nerve to cry, “Rape!” And our misguided, pussy-whipped justice system has the temerity to side with the wanton women and prosecute the poor saps who were unjustly coerced into forcing themselves on these manipulative man-eaters!
(I personally don’t know of any women who sashay around bad neighborhoods in ‘slutty attire,’ unless they’re prostitutes. Then again, I personally don’t know any prostitutes.) Can’t wait until he and his manosphere minions dry hump this one! (Pun intended.)
Alphalady, I don’t want to seem like a humorless caller-outer, but I do personally know many prostitutes and they prefer the term sex worker 🙂 Thanks.
And of course, these guys love the idea that women WANT to be raped. Just by the RIGHT guy, the ALPHA, and if anybody else does it, only THEN do we cry “rape”. Ugh.
Not the point nor the conclusion of the study, thanks for playing.
I read this earlier. There is some really fucked up shit in lad mags though including an article about a man having sex with his dog and another about a man having sex with his mother.
Here’s an idea for a study: Take the rapists’ quotes and then some quotes from MRA articles and try to spot the difference! Seriously, I wouldn’t be surprised if a good chunk of the MRM community were comprised of sex offenders from the things they tend to say about women.
Didn’t you all see those bolded italics?
and its entire remaining population sold into slavery!!!!!111unodos!
Just think what’s going to happen now!
What is #1 sex fantasy reported by women?
I know the answer but I want to hear you say it.
What is #1 sex fantasy reported by women?
Being ignored by MRAs? Just guessing…
Please be Spearhafoc.
Please be Spearhafoc.
Please be Spearhafoc.
Please be Spearhafoc…
Zero incorrect answers. More likely conclusion for this study – British people are dumb as shit, and see pedos and rapists and kidnappers in everything. Supporting evidence: this study, and Britain notoriously being a big sad nanny state for a while now. Let’s see Middlesex U publish these findings.
He’s going to say “rape fantasy”
NWO, you realize that those are fantasies yes? And also, in these fantasies, the woman is being taken by someone who looks like Hugh Jackman. Not a 50 year old milk machine operator.
“in these fantasies, the woman is being taken by someone who looks like Hugh Jackman”
How did you know???
You know whose ideas and comments on these posts most resemble the comments of the convicted rapists?
I know the answer but I want to hear you say it.
Citation needed. How would one even quantify the sexual fantasies of most people of either gender?
1. There’s a certain way you can tell that a girl wants to have sex . . . The way they dress, they flaunt themselves.
2. Some girls walk around in short-shorts . . . showing their body off . . . It just starts a man thinking that if he gets something like that, what can he do with it?
3. Girls ask for it by wearing these mini-skirts and hotpants . . . they’re just displaying their body . . . Whether they realise it or not they’re saying, ‘Hey, I’ve got a beautiful body, and it’s yours if you want it.
4. I think if a law is passed, there should be a dress code . . . When girls dress in those short skirts and things like that, they’re just asking for it.
Rapist or NWO?
Per this survey of twenty studies on the subject:
http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Women's+erotic+rape+fantasies%3A+an+evaluation+of+theory+and+research.-a0176374283
A common fantasy that over half of women report having had at some point, but one that only 1 in 5 admit to being their “favorite” fantasy. This doesn’t put it in the realm of “the number one sexual fantasy” of women at large, IMO.
It beats me. But when I do a google search for #1 female sexual fantasy that’s what came up on a few articles at #1 or very close to #1 , and by articles I mean “some piece of online writing with no scientific citations whatsoever’, but I assume that’s what NWO is picking on.
I know the #1 LEAST favorite fantasy–having sex with bitter, angry milk machine techs.
“What is #1 sex fantasy reported by women?”
Millionaire underwear models playing with kittens?
I know the #1 LEAST favorite fantasy–having sex with bitter, angry milk machine techs.
I’m really glad that you included that last word in your sentence. It would be a disturbing image otherwise.
“#1 sex fantasy reported by women”
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Is the #1 sex fantasy something involving David Tennant and as much of the Torchwood cast as you can fit in the TARDIS?
(Spearhafoc WAS my #1 fantasy until you mentioned in an offtopic thread ramble about My Little Pony:FiM that Apple Jack is your least favorite of the Mane Six. Why, Spear, why? Why must you destroy our awesome-hatted, vintage-clad Internetz True Love?!?!)