García-Favaro, Laura and Gill, Rosalind. 2016. "Emasculation nation has arrived": sexism rearticulated in online responses to Lose the Lads' Mags campaign. Feminist Media Studies, 16(3), pp. 379-397. ISSN 1468-0777 [Article]

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In the spring of 2013 a British feminist campaign sought to have men's magazines, such as Zoo, Nuts, and Loaded, removed from the shelves of major retailers, arguing that they are sexist and objectify women. The campaign-known as Lose the Lads' Mags (LTLM)-received extensive media coverage and was the topic of considerable public debate. Working with a data corpus comprising 5,140 reader comments posted on news websites in response to reporting of LTLM, this paper explores the repeated focus on men and masculinity as "attacked," "under threat," "victimised," or "demonised" in what is depicted as a sinister new gender order. Drawing on a poststructuralist feminist discursive analysis, we show how these broad claims are underpinned by four interpretative repertoires that centre around: (i) gendered double standards; (ii) male (hetero)sexuality under threat; (iii) the war on the "normal bloke"; and (iv) the notion of feminism as unconcerned with equality but rather "out to get men." This paper contributes to an understanding of (online) popular misogyny and changing modes of sexism.

Item Type:	Article
Identification Number (DOI):	https://doi.org/10.1080/14680777.2015.1105840
Additional Information:	"This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Feminist Media Studies on 15 Nov 2015, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/14680777.2015.1105840. It is deposited under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited."
Keywords:	Men's magazines, postfeminism, sexism, "sexualisation", new media
Departments, Centres and Research Units:	Institute for Cultural and Creative Entrepreneurship (ICCE)
Dates:	Date Event 15 September 2015 Accepted 15 November 2015 Published Online 2016 Published
Item ID:	37625
Date Deposited:	26 Sep 2024 10:10
Last Modified:	26 Sep 2024 11:12
Peer Reviewed:	Yes, this version has been peer-reviewed.
URI:	https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/37625

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