Most men fail to tell the difference between lads' mag jokes and quotes from rapists

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Male students were unable to tell the difference between sexist ‘jokes’ in so-called lads' mags and remarks about women by convicted rapists, according to a new study. The researchers said that while lad culture had declined – along with the sales of the magazines – the supposedly more enlightened hipsters also had a tendency towards “the ‘ironic’ use of racist and sexist humourâ€. And they said “consumption of hostile sexism†now mostly occurred online when young men watch pornography.

 

Three studies, published in the journal Psychology of Men and Masculinities, were carried out into how sexism could be normalised among young men. Perhaps the most alarming was one in which 274 American college students were asked to identify which quotes were from lads' mags, such as Nuts, Zoo, Loaded, FHM and Unilad, and which were from rapists. They were unable to do so. In another of the studies, 81 British men aged 18 to 50 were presented with sexist jokes either in or out of a lads’ mag context. Young men tended to consider the jokes were less hostile towards women when they were in the magazines. The third study, involving 423 men aged 18 to 30, sought to find a correlation between sexism and the people who buy lads’ mags. It found that men who displayed ambivalent sexism were more likely to buy them than other men.

 

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/lads-mags-rapists-students-psychology-study-hostile-sexism-donald-trump-a7358481.html

 

There's a quiz to check if you can tell the difference here

https://www.indy100.com/article/sexism-psychology-lads-mags-study-rapists-students-rape-culture-7359896?utm_source=indy&utm_medium=top5&utm_campaign=i100

[ninedaysqueen]

this doesn't surprise me in the slightest 

[Suga's GF]

i got 13 right! thanks, reddit.

[paopufruit]

So I took the quiz (yeah i'm a girl but that's besides the point) and most of them were painfully obvious oh my god how can you not tell the difference

[Hikaruaxi]

[Auri]

So I took the quiz (yeah i'm a girl but that's besides the point) and most of them were painfully obvious oh my god how can you not tell the difference

Right? But I'm not even surprised. 

[Juliantina]

They are all so disgusting to me so I can't tell which quote was from a sexist pig or a rapist.

 

Third option should be: TRASH

I bet I would get them all right. 

[Lol_]

this doesn't surprise me in the slightest

 

So I took the quiz (yeah i'm a girl but that's besides the point) and most of them were painfully obvious oh my god how can you not tell the difference

i got 13 right! thanks, reddit.

I got 12 but I miss-clicked on the first one

They are all so disgusting to me so I can't tell which quote was from a sexist pig or a rapist.

 

Third option should be: TRASH

I bet I would get them all right. 

You're right, there should have been a TRASH option

[solis]

not surprised honestly 

[Athena]

oops I only got 9. some were obvious, others weren't really.

[onieyez]

i got 15 out of 18

 

the ones i got wrong "I think girls are like plasticine..." wtf this was in a lads mag, I guess this isn't what rapist say

 

"girls love being tied up... it gives them the chance to the helpless victim" lads mag too, rapist don't say this shit either

 

"consider the following" you see a man dressed like a policeman..." too damn long so i just clicked randomly

[Smash]

This is exactly why most of their asses need to go right to Bangtan BootCamp 

[mochichan]

I got most of them questions right but there're very little differences between them.....they all basically have the same shitty mentality that men should dominate and humilate women bc women secretly like it, and if she's wearing skimpy clothes then she's a "prostitute" that's asking for it....

 

Disgusting asf.

[Lightbee]

They are all so disgusting to me so I can't tell which quote was from a sexist pig or a rapist.

 

Third option should be: TRASH

I bet I would get them all right. 

Same. I literally couldn't tell cos they all sound unironically misogynistic except for the few with punchlines.

[Lol_]

This is exactly why most of their asses need to go right to Bangtan BootCamp

 

Yes!!

i got 15 out of 18

 

the ones i got wrong "I think girls are like plasticine..." wtf this was in a lads mag, I guess this isn't what rapist say

 

"girls love being tied up... it gives them the chance to the helpless victim" lads mag too, rapist don't say this shit either

 

"consider the following" you see a man dressed like a policeman..." too damn long so i just clicked randomly

I got those wrong too

They should go in the TRASH option that * rightnowjsj * suggested

[paopufruit]

Right? But I'm not even surprised. 

SAME

[iiiw]

I couldn't tell the difference because they all were nasty

[Joon]

I got 17/18 correct. Most were very gross but imo it was pretty easy to tell the difference...

[SeeYaWithYou]

Every single one of those quotes were fucked up. They honestly made me so uncomfortable

[Midnight Circus]

I couldn't tell the difference. They are all gross.

[BigManSam]

17/18 got the cock teaser one wrong.

[Runo~]

I got 13 right but that's besides the point.....

 

ALL of those quotes were disgusting and utter trash.

[dbellvm]

not surprising but really sad

[Mariabell]

Which is why I support many feminist ideas and principles..... there's just these areas in macho/straight male culture where the boundaries in regards to feelings of entitlement are so blurred.

[ZUKKYUN !!!]

12/18

 

Basically the "difference" is that the rapists' ones are more like psycho-mentality while the lads' ones are more like.....well, "dark (or degrading, depending on your mentality) jokes"