Uni Lad misogyny is “just banter”.

So I just heard about Uni Mag which is a misogynistic magazine and website for university “lads” teaching them to treat women (who they call “sluts”) as sex objects. Usual articles for them consist of advice on how to hunt “vulnerable” students down for sex. They have just shut down their website due to complaints about a severely pro-rape article.

In the ‘cleverly’ titled article ‘Sexual Mathematics’ we are told that 75% of women are sluts, implying that women are automatically going to sleep with you. However if you’re unlucky enough to meet one of those rare non-sluts the Uni Lad’s are told to “think about this mathematical statistic: 85% of rape cases go unreported…That seems fairly good odds”. They add a very funny ‘joke’ at the end just to make sure we know it’s just ‘banter’ and that none of it’s 79,000 Facebook fans are actually going to rape anyone: “Uni Lad does not condone rape without saying surprise”.

Apart from that statistically, amongst those 79,000 fans there are going to be rapists. They might not even be aware they’re rapists because of articles like this that are allowed to be printed through the rape myth that it’s not ‘real’ rape unless you’re attacked by a stranger at knife point in a dark alley. This myth encourages men to see acquaintance rape more as “convincing” women to sleep with them rather than real serious rape. Some of those Uni Lad fans will therefore think it’s not really rape to get a woman drunk and force themselves on her, some of them will take this article seriously. Considering 1 in 6 women in the U.S are raped, each of those members statistically know several victims themselves.

A Twitter member (Sazza_Jay) complained on Uni Lad’s Twitter page about the article and was asked in reply whether she was a “dyke”. The official ‘apology’ from Uni Lad originally claimed that the article was intended as “banter”. Facebook fans since have been posting misogynistic defences, victim -blaming and pro-rape ‘jokes’ in response. Anyone who objects to their misogynistic article must just be a “dyke” or “gay” with a “small dick”. These ridiculous claims further enforce the expectation of men to go along with the ‘joke’ in order to be accepted by their peers. Through fear that they may not be a real ‘bloke’ otherwise. This completely disregards the fact that many rape victims are also male of course, another rape rape they’re enforcing. If man has a problem with this he must just be homosexual.

Link to Facebook comments.

But yeah, misogyny in the media doesn’t really exist, it’s just lads being lads. After all, they’re programmed to be sex-obsessed so can’t help themselves. It’s just the way things are.

Originally posted on my blog here: secondaura.blogspot.com