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UniLad magazine advocating rape - have there been threads on this already?

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Kveta · 01/02/2012 12:02

link to story here

I am still going Shock after reading this, and wondered if anyone has more coherent thoughts on the matter than me?

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MoChan · 01/02/2012 12:42

I heard that one of their advertisers pulled out, maybe? William Hill, possibly? Sorry, mind like sieve.

steamedtreaclesponge · 01/02/2012 12:41

They've put an apology up on their website and FB page... I recommend not reading the comments underneath unless you want to explode with rage

wahwahwah · 01/02/2012 12:41

Balls. They have an 'apology' page up (probably written by their lawyers) and the site is down pre relaunch.

SardineQueen · 01/02/2012 12:40

Their site is closed down and has this message:

We would like to make a public apology as it appears that some of the content previously published on this site has caused some distress.
The content in question was un-called for and should in no way have been published, and we can assure you it will never happen again. Any grief this may have caused you, we apologise for. We took things too far.
Any flippant comments that may have been said during discussions, I also apologise for, it will not happen again. We are certainly going to be cleaning up our act on unilad.com.
We do appreciate where you are coming from with your points, hence forth, an immediate change in material.
Thank you, and sorry once again.
UniLad.com will be re-launching in a few weeks.

SardineQueen · 01/02/2012 12:39
wahwahwah · 01/02/2012 12:38

They get money from advertising. Boycott the advertisers and that will hit them where it hurts.

So who's going into see who their sponsors/advertisers are?

SardineQueen · 01/02/2012 12:34

"Far from being a harmless student blog, UniLad is a money-generating website, complete with merchandise. The site has nearly 70,000 "likes" on Facebook and more than 2,000 followers on Twitter and claims to have an average daily visit count of 8,000."

wahwahwah · 01/02/2012 12:33

Who could we send this to to complain? Press Association?

kerala · 01/02/2012 12:29

Exactly Kveta if you said an equivalent comment about black people there would be an outcry and rightly so.

Kveta · 01/02/2012 12:25

to be fair, I don't think it's that widely read a publication. It can't be, can it?!

DH was absolutely shocked too when I read it to him - he asked why, in the UK, making a racist comment or threatening to blow up an airport as a joke is treated as a crime, but advocating rape isn't. Also, when the riots were ongoing last year, people who had used social networking to tell others how to join in the riots were charged with a crime - but telling undergrads how to rape and get away with it is not frowned upon by the authorities.

I'm pretty disgusted that these are people who got into university in this country too. It suggests that we need more rigorous screening of applicants.

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MoChan · 01/02/2012 12:20

I have been following this. Comments thread on their Facebook page is massive, basically loads of supporters playing the "feminists with no sense of humour" card about anyone who doesn't like it. Now completely, utterly depressed by vast degree of woman-hating dressed up as humour I've borne witness to. Makes me sick.

StealthPolarBear · 01/02/2012 12:13

Bloody hell

SardineQueen · 01/02/2012 12:13

When do we get hate laws and incitement laws used against people who say these things?

SardineQueen · 01/02/2012 12:12

What? Just, what? WTAF?

Fresher girls are particularly vulnerable?
85% of rape cases go unreported, that's pretty good odds?

What is the fucking POINT in even trying to do anything about anything when popular publications think it is fine to say these things?

wahwahwah · 01/02/2012 12:09

I remember the tread.

I was hoping that the sods had been charged on the back of this. Why have they not been? So a footballer gets charged for making racist insults (fair enough) but these 'boys'' can put this crap in writing - for a much larger audience - and don't even get a slap on the wrist?

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