To be offended by these stickers on the back of a van?

If a person was driving behind that van and able to read some of those smaller stickers, then they're driving too close.

I don't think most people would take any more notice of them than the daft 'baby on board' signs that some people have in their cars.

I don't think you truly believe this.

I don't find stickers the stickers offensive - they are on a random van that you will probably never see again so why do they matter? I don't find them funny and they're not to my taste at all, but it's up to the owner what he sticks on his van. I don't think most people would take any more notice of them than the daft 'baby on board' signs that some people have in their cars.

I would not shed a tear if someone were to run their keys down the paintwork and puncture the tyres.

There was a documentary on Channel 4 a few years ago about the people and realities behind porn.

They featured that Fake Taxi site on there. It's basically run by an older middle-aged British man and his son (even more grim) from somewhere in Eastern Europe (maybe Czechia?), albeit a huge worldwide business with a massive turnover - coming up with new 'contexts' (that vary very little) centred around a female passenger either forgetting her purse and offering to pay in a predictable alternative way, or otherwise she just can't resist the taxi driver and throws herself at him.

As I recall, there was nothing illegal about what they were doing - but, as with most porn, they were looking for new 'models' and offering them large sums of money to sell their bodies and be filmed doing so.

All this in a not particularly wealthy country where I don't think it's unreasonable to believe that many young women may feel a great deal of pressure not to turn down the chance of life-changing sums that could get them out of all manner of financial struggles. Then, once their faces (and everything else) have been shown worldwide, and will remain online forever, many of them may just find that other more 'traditional' avenues for earning money are closed to them, so why not just keep going down the murky path to infamy?

They were open about the fact that they work on a 'freemium' business model, whereby they offer free content and spread their brand far and wide (helped by idiots like Mr Green VW here, unless he happens to be working for/with them, I suppose), then they make their money from the tiny percentage (but numerically still very large amount) of viewers who can't get enough and go on to subscribe and pay.

Nasty.

Another sign of the apocalypse

Hear hear. Someone else commented recently that challenging someone who had used a misogynistic term to her risked looking ‘humourless’. Because that’s obviously the key thing, women not looking like they don’t have an appreciation of a misogynist’s top bantz.

Nailed it. Really good post

I’m astounded by the amount of internalised misogyny on mumsnet.

It’s people with this exactly mentality who don’t investigate flashing incidents properly because it’s just a laugh or a bit of a banter - even though this kind of behaviour is actually about power and control and known to lead to worse sexual offending (remember all the WhatsApp groups Wayne Couzens was in?). These car stickers are also about power and control - this man wants to shock, offend and scare women because he enjoys having the power to do so.

If he had racist stickers plastered all over his car I doubt you’d be saying he has a right to do so because we live in a democracy. Ask yourself why you think misogynistic stickers are any different. Misogyny is not a right.

Depressing!

I don't find it offensive. I'd just think the owner had a shit sense of humour.

I agree @RosaMoline It's all pretty grim. Can't imagine what vile article is at the wheel inside. boak!

im sure i saw on a trafficcops type prgram police made someone srcape off offensive lauguage on their window

sad little men do this

His actual d*ck is probably 2 inches long.

As already explained, it's more like 'oh gosh I forgot my purse how will I pay'
Or I'm here with my friend in the back, how shall we pass the time.
You get the idea

This is what I thought. is that right @gould ?

Fake taxi is like he’s pretending to be a taxi to trap women.

So damn creepy

It's in appalling taste but I can't really get worked up about it.

They were always somewhat tacky, but they didn't drip with hatred and deliberate offence. They just suggested that the occupants were both frequently 'busy in their demonstration of their physical affections for each other - no suggestion of any coercion or non-consensual liaisons whatsoever - and in case any children did ask, there was also the innocent rendering of 'rocking' - i.e. they might be playing loud music and bopping to it inside!

The traditional art of bumper stickers always used to be subtlety and wit; not just showing a 'productive' tumescent phallus alongside a stark misogynistic insult as subtle as a breeze block.

I can't make out the pics too well OP, I've seen cheeky, suggestive car stickers in the past but this sounds beyond that - some of the images you describe sound indecent.
Whether it's technically an offence to display any of these stickers I don't know, I'd be tempted to contact non emergency police and have a word.

One of the mums on my school run has "powered by bitchdust" on the bumper, a cartoon woman with her eyes closed, mouth open, tongue out on the rear window and an outline of an ample arse in a thong with the cheeks spread on the fuel cap.

Obviously a classy bird.

@RosaMoline why did you bother to obscure the number plate? They obviously don’t mind being seen and noticed. 😁

So, the driver is advertising that he’s a sleazy dickhead.

The driver is clearly a wanker, literally.

I don’t like it as it’s crass and misogynistic and while I am not actually offended I can fully understand that it’s in very poor taste and people don’t want their children to see it. My mother would find it utterly horrible too.

This person has chosen to try and offend others. Just no need for that. Consideration for other is a dying art.

That said, I get the red flag comments.He couldn’t make the warning much more obvious.