Can You Tell The Difference Between A Men's Magazine And A Rapist?

[ismnotwasm]

Well, this is upsetting. 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.

http://jezebel.com/461405018

[Gravitycollapse]

1. Wow.

[geek tragedy]

2. Perfunctory "those magazines are for overgrown boys, not men" protest. nt

[ismnotwasm]

3. Yeah

The magazines are one thing, (I mean sometimes playboy really does have good articles, right?) I think it's more the comments. This is actually kind of a disingenuous study given how easy it is to predict how men who look at posed, naked women in the first place, are going to respond.


I posted this because it's representative of rape culture that such comments *are* so easy to predict.

[redqueen]

5. "it's representative of rape culture that such comments *are* so easy to predict."

But there's no such thing as rape culture!


Makes you wonder...

[Victoria E]

4. Gosh

Thanks for posting, this is so disturbing.