This is the article in question. You can take it down but you can't make it disappear, welcome to the internet.
They have issued an apology. Not that it makes it any different really. The point is that there was still an article promoting rape, and this means that whoever posted it clearly things that's "okay". (It's not.)
I could go on for hours about why this is so very wrong, but i'll leave you instead with a couple of comments from the facebook page.
And finally. A transcript of the comment I posted. For if you're still not sure that rape is bad:
"Lads", what you don't realise here is that we aren't going after "unilad" because we hate the site, although in my opinion it's vile and unpleasant. The problem here is that in suggesting that rape is in anyway condoned, it suggests to you that it's something you might do.
Try putting yourself in her shoes. Imagine you are the girl who's crying and saying no to a boy who's bigger and stronger than her and just won't listen.
Imagine yourself past that night, to the humiliation of the GU clinic and a police investigation. To a group of strange men who, whilst working for the best, will ask you to take off your clothes for them again and again. Yes they're photographing bruises, cuts, injuries, but it doesn't make it any better.
What about after that? When you loose your job because it was a co-worker who did it and you don't feel safe in their presence, or when you suffer years of depression, low self esteem and fear that it might happen again.
What about if every time you so much as think of the idea of having sex again it frightens you too much to say. You might have wanted a loving relationship with someone, but finding anyone who's going to be able to cope with your fears is easier said than done.
What about when you feel so lost you think that maybe you should just kill yourself, so that it won't happen a second or a third time? Or when you barely survive because it does.
There is a reason rape isn't funny. And that it's bad.
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