If anyone even remotely thinks that the fight for sexual equality has been won

[sombrefan]

An agony uncle in Zoo Magazine (a British lads and tits magazine) advocates slashing an ex-girlfriend's face.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/may/05/danny-dyer-zoo-magazine

Male gamers will soon be able to pay female gamers to play with them and talk dirty to them.

http://www.newsarama.com/games/game-crush-revealed-interview-100504.html

An Northern Irish ad campaign for crisps uses scantily clad female rubgy players to promote the product with such slogans as "you looking at my crisps?".

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/scantily-clad-girls-ad-for-crisps-campaign-lsquodegrades-womenrsquo-14782398.html

Comments

[angearia.livejournal.com]

Thanks for posting this.

[simonf.livejournal.com]

Not a problem. Said agony uncle got the bin after a lot of flak from the press. It still leaves Zoo Magazine being sold though. It's not a top shelf magazine but it really should be.

The UK lads magazine phenomenon of the 90s did produce some excellent articles but as sales declined, efforts to grab readers became more and more crude. There's some interesting reading to be had from the British right-wing press that puts a lot of blame on the sexualisation of pre-teens on magazines such as Zoo. When you can buy baby bibs that say "all Daddy wanted was a blowjob" you do have wonder what kind of culture we live in.