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"uni lad" and lad culture

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cinnamonnut · 08/04/2012 14:08

There was a big furore recently about the "uni lad" magazine advocating rape. They closed their website to "clean up their act" but their facebook page is still so misogynistic :(
This popped up in the activity feed on my facebook the other day. I got involved but ended up having more sexist comments fired at me and in the end deleted my comments to avoid becoming a target.
www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=381942055162193&set=a.352663588090040.76923.146505212039213&type=1&theater
Fortunately it never reached 15,000 likes but this type of behaviour is becoming more and more accepted.

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SardineQueen · 08/04/2012 14:27

No I understand that cinnamonnut

SardineQueen · 08/04/2012 14:24

Their whole facebook page is just about saying really offensive things about women.

It's really depressing it wasn't like that when I was at university in the mid 90s. Most blokes were just nice normal blokes. If any of them had thoughts like that they kept them to themselves or I guess shared them with other inadequate little wankers. Now it seems that it is normal for young men to express such hatred and desire to harm. I don't understand what has happened.

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cinnamonnut · 08/04/2012 14:19

I almost feel like a coward for deleting my comments, but I don't think there's any point exposing myself (with full name attached) to so much vitriol.

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TheSmallClanger · 08/04/2012 14:13

How bloody depressing.

I SWEAR that university culture was not like that when I was first there in the early 90s. I saw the beginnings of it in about 1996/1997, when I worked at a university - there was a definite return to older-fashioned gender roles, a decrease in progressive politics and a rise in "raunch". This isn't golden-ageism either, I can think of examples.

Where did it all come from?

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