A prominent member of Britain’s Conservative Party gave a speech earlier today lambasting lad mags for their evil assault on the culture, essentially blaming them for creating a nation of irresponsible deadbeat dads who objectify women and never call their mum. Pretty harsh stuff–but does that make us bad people for posting their photos all the time? We suppose if you buy into the notion that any magazine can make nice boys do bad things (or that the only good family is a two-parent family) then yeah, we’re destroying the world. Where have we heard that one before?
The basic complaint, as always, is that these rags create unfair portraits of women that are impossible (and unhealthy) to emulate … kind of like every other magazine on the planet. They’ll all rot your brain in the end, but at least we get to look at Lucy Pinder while it happens.
· “Lad mags ‘linked to social ills’” (bbc.co.uk; more @ jezebel.com)
