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The At-Home Game: Tell The Difference? Rapist vs Lad Mags

PostPosted: Tue Nov 05, 2013 7:21 pm
by AndyDufresne
From Jezbel:

According to a new study, people can't tell the difference between quotes from British "lad mags" and interviews with convicted rapists. And given the choice, men are actually more likely to agree with the rapists.

The University of Surrey reports on the study (conducted jointly with researchers at Middlesex University), to be published in the British Journal of Psychology. Researchers gave a group of men and women quotes from the British lad mags FHM, Loaded, Nuts and Zoo, as well as excerpts from interviews with actual convicted rapists originally published in the book The Rapist Files. The participants couldn't reliably identify which statements came from magazines and which from rapists — what's more, they rated the magazine quotes as slightly more derogatory than the statements made by men serving time for raping women. The researchers also showed both sets of quotes to a separate group of men — the men were more likely to identify with the rapists' statements than the lad mag excerpts. The only slightly bright spot in the study: when researchers randomly (and sometimes incorrectly) labelled the quotes as coming from either rapists or magazines, the men were more likely to identify with the ones allegedly drawn from mags. At least they didn't want to agree with rapists.


QUIZ TIME

1. There's a certain way you can tell that a girl wants to have sex . . . The way they dress, they flaunt themselves.

2. Some girls walk around in short-shorts . . . showing their body off . . . It just starts a man thinking that if he gets something like that, what can he do with it?

3. A girl may like anal sex because it makes her feel incredibly naughty and she likes feeling like a dirty slut. If this is the case, you can try all sorts of humiliating acts to help live out her filthy fantasy.

4. Mascara running down the cheeks means they've just been crying, and it was probably your fault . . . but you can cheer up the miserable beauty with a bit of the old in and out.

5. What burns me up sometimes about girls is dick-teasers. They lead a man on and then shut him off right there.

6. Filthy talk can be such a turn on for a girl . . . no one wants to be shagged by a mouse . . . A few compliments won't do any harm either . . . ‘I bet you want it from behind you dirty whore' . . .

7. You know girls in general are all right. But some of them are bitches . . . The bitches are the type that . . . need to have it stuffed to them hard and heavy.

8. Escorts . . . they know exactly how to turn a man on. I've given up on girlfriends. They don't know how to satisfy me, but escorts do.

9. You'll find most girls will be reluctant about going to bed with somebody or crawling in the back seat of a car . . . But you can usually seduce them, and they'll do it willingly.

10. There's nothing quite like a woman standing in the dock accused of murder in a sex game gone wrong . . . The possibility of murder does bring a certain frisson to the bedroom.

11. Girls ask for it by wearing these mini-skirts and hotpants . . . they're just displaying their body . . . Whether they realise it or not they're saying, ‘Hey, I've got a beautiful body, and it's yours if you want it.'

12. You do not want to be caught red-handed . . . go and smash her on a park bench. That used to be my trick.

13. Some women are domineering, but I think it's more or less the man who should put his foot down. The man is supposed to be the man. If he acts the man, the woman won't be domineering.

14. I think if a law is passed, there should be a dress code . . . When girls dress in those short skirts and things like that, they're just asking for it.

15. Girls love being tied up . . . it gives them the chance to be the helpless victim.

16. I think girls are like plasticine, if you warm them up you can do anything you want with them.


show: Answers



--Andy

Re: The At-Home Game: Tell The Difference? Rapist vs Lad Mag

PostPosted: Tue Nov 05, 2013 8:53 pm
by john9blue
i, too, can cherry pick quotes. they put forward biased information without drawing a conclusion, because they know the conclusion they want US to draw (these magazines have the same mentality as rapists) is false. you would need a random selection of quotes to accomplish that, not pre-selected quotes chosen with the intention of being similar.

it's like those garbage videos where they interview americans, choose the dumbest ones, and pretend they represent the whole country

please tell me you aren't a scientist, andy.

edit: i got 10/16, for what it's worth.

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PostPosted: Tue Nov 05, 2013 10:31 pm
by hahaha3hahaha
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Re: The At-Home Game: Tell The Difference? Rapist vs Lad Mag

PostPosted: Tue Nov 05, 2013 11:03 pm
by BigBallinStalin
Are "lad mags" serious reading material, or are they serious trolling material?

Re: The At-Home Game: Tell The Difference? Rapist vs Lad Mag

PostPosted: Wed Nov 06, 2013 2:35 am
by Artimis
This is supposed to be quiz, which is just as well because if it were intended to be a serious discussion I would immediately denounce this entire thread as Weapons Grade Bullshit!

In other news, I scored 11/16, does that mean I passed?

Re: The At-Home Game: Tell The Difference? Rapist vs Lad Mag

PostPosted: Wed Nov 06, 2013 3:08 am
by mrswdk
www.truelad.com

Adverts aren't just pretty pictures: their purpose is to sell products.

Re: The At-Home Game: Tell The Difference? Rapist vs Lad Mag

PostPosted: Wed Nov 06, 2013 4:35 am
by greenoaks
i got 8 right. i thought they were all from a lad's mag.

Re: The At-Home Game: Tell The Difference? Rapist vs Lad Mag

PostPosted: Wed Nov 06, 2013 5:56 am
by khazalid
they sure are awful publications. personally, i'd still sooner see OK! banned.

as a bit of fun, its ok, but as an illiberal, agenda driven pseudo crusade it is simply part of a worrying overall trend...

Re: The At-Home Game: Tell The Difference? Rapist vs Lad Mag

PostPosted: Wed Nov 06, 2013 10:30 am
by AndyDufresne
I encourage you all to submit your own concoctions for review. Please send BBS a PM with your quotes, and also please let BBS know whether you are a rapist or just into Lad Mags.


--Andy

Re: The At-Home Game: Tell The Difference? Rapist vs Lad Mag

PostPosted: Wed Nov 06, 2013 10:46 am
by Vid_FISO
Are the group of (convicted) rapists and the group of people that contribute their views (it's not said whether these are from in-house articles or readers' submissions) to lads mags mutually exclusive? i.e. some of the lads mags quotes could well come from rapists, whether convicted or not.

Re: The At-Home Game: Tell The Difference? Rapist vs Lad Mag

PostPosted: Thu Nov 07, 2013 2:00 pm
by Frigidus
That's funny, sometimes I have trouble telling the difference between Jezebel and misandrists.