I agree with your point wholly. It is often surprising just how much sexism still persists. There was a period in the late Nineties where it was virtually impossible to find a man who didn't talk about 'birds' - in an 'ironic' fashion, of course. The new man was followed by the new bloke, and those 'lad' mags suddenly found a new audience of gullible fucking students who thought it was alright.

I couldn't believe it, walking into my friends' house, I found that all the walls were plastered with pictures from Loaded and FHM. They didn't have an actual woman in the house the whole time they lived there, so the simulacra substituted. The discussions often turned to sex - "wouldn't it be great, right, if we had these birds and they were all noshin' on us?" One can imagine such young men, living alone, atomised, uneducated, disempowered, resentful, taught to believe that sex is power - reading their quasi-porno mags and rags 'ironically', yet plotting or preparing for rape.

That's what is frightening about rape. It feels familiar. I can see people I know trying some shit like that. All it would take would be the right circumstance.

I wonder if this has any correlation with the rise of pornography use through the Internet. Does anybody know of any UK anti pornography campaigns?

>>One can imagine such young men, living alone, atomised, uneducated, disempowered, resentful, taught to believe that sex is power...

yes, but isn't the point of the cartoon that it's the women in the picture who are the misogynists? rape is committed by men but the exploitation of women, the hate of (other) women can be done not only by men but also by.... women. these women are not just exploiting themselves, they are helping to degrading the image and experience of womanhood on a masssive scale and so are ruthlessly exploiting +other+ women. is there a connection between this degradation through the constant representation of women as pornographic accessories and massive rape statistics or were there always 50k rapes a year in the uk?