to think taking this article down isn't enough.

[fuzzypicklehead]

I may be overreacting in my knee-jerk reaction, but I just read this article and was horrified by the website it refers to. (it involves "joke" rape advice, amongst other things).

Although the particular article it refers to has been taken down, the parent site is still running, gaining ad revenue, and tweeting perjorative responses to objectors. I know people have the right to free speech, but isn't encouraging rape because it's statistically underreported just beyond the pale? Is there not any sanction available against a site that publishes such hate-filled mysoginistic bile?

So you link to it again so it gets more traffic?

The internet is full of horrific sites that any normal, decent person wouldn't knowingly go near. Child porn, torture, beheadings, rape, murder, the lot. If people want to find it, they will. The best way to combat that is to go nowhere near it and write to your MP to pressure for tighter controls on ISPs.

The parent site has been suspended for two weeks, hasn't it?

Why on earth would tighter controls on ISPs be a solution? How would that protect women from the behaviour of the 'men' who view that site as 'banter'?

Wouldn't it be much more effective for us all to work towards a society in which misogyny is unacceptable? That way these opinions would be challenged on and off the internet.

I didn't link to the actual offensive website. The link is to an article about the backlash it has caused.

The trouble is that the site isn't billed as something outside the norm that you would have to go looking for. It's a mainstream web-mag for university aged lads with advice on how to target vulnerable young women. But as I said, I could just be over-reacting.

There is a thread on this already, if you're interested www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/1396881-UniLad-magazine-advocating-rape-have-there-been-threads-on-this-already

Ta Giyadas.

Couldn't see any info in the article about the site being suspended, but maybe there's been an update since then.

Although it shouldn't exsist, the backlash from these articles has probably started many discussions and now that there has been a backtrack and full apology, there will be lads (this was a Uni site) educated from this.

Click on Uni Lad, the apology and how long the site is down for, on there.