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"Psychologists from Middlesex University and the University of Surrey found that when presented with descriptions of women taken from lads’ mags, and comments about women made by convicted rapists, most people who took part in the study could not distinguish the source of the quotes. The research due to be published in the British Journal of Psychology also revealed that most men who took part identified themselves more with the language expressed by the convicted rapists."
You got a pretty mouth, Alex.
Don't think I didn't notice.
I'm sure it's true but it would be helpful to be able to read some of these quotes.
Oh, but it's okay to use the phrase "lads' mags"? Double offensive.
@whizz_dumb Offensive to lads? How about wank books? Is that better?
To be fair all of the rapists worked at Conde Nast.
The first sentence made me feel mad at the "lad's mags," but then the second sentence made me feel mad at our species entire. Clever twist!
@Rollo No kidding. Science has really been pissing me off today…
I wonder how well the test subjects would be able to distinguish either set of quotes from a set of comments about women taken from random passersby on the street. We'll never know, because the designers of this "study" didn't bother to include a control group.
I may be a little slow, devoting so much forebrain to writing rape fantasies and such, but if the common man is more rape-y than lad-y, how is it the magazines are making things worse? It sounds more like you can lead a rapist to copy but you can't make him read.
Wow. Those psychologists' heads will explode when they hear about the internet.