Last week’s false rape accusation at Hofstra University has inspired a media storm unparalleled by most actual rape cases. The feeding frenzy has produced some helpful discussion—check out Emily Bazelon’s piece at Slate for a thoughtful dissection of rape, sex, feminism, and the law—and a whole lot of unbridled misogyny.In “Crying wolf really hurts true victims of assault,” The New York Post’s Andrea Peyser rightly points out that false rape accusations can harm the reputations of real sexual assault victims. Peyser also personally demonstrates what else hurts victims: sensationalized media coverage of false rape accusations.

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Kids today are taking more sexual cues from Internet porn, GQ reports. Parents are frightened because their teenagers are gang-banging and ejaculating on each others’ faces. GQ is disappointed because its aged readership can’t get in on the fun. Personally, I’m pretty freaked out that “Travis and Cody, typical 21-year-old college students in Florida,” find female pubic hair “disgusting.” But more than pornography’s peculiar sexual obsessions—group sex, mandatory facials, and “porn-star trim” vaginas—I’m worried about what mainstream Internet porn almost never features: scenes of consent.

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According to one employee from an ad network solicited by Tucker Max, everyone’s favorite rape culture scholar has been shopping around some ads for “I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell” based on his fratty “fact” catchphrases. Sample Tucker Max “facts”: “Sexism isn’t the same as misogyny, you stupid bitch,” and “The best thing about fat girls is heart disease.”

Apparently, some ad networks don’t like “facts”! According to the employee, the firm rejected the above mock-up, deeming it too “offensive” and “ignorant” for general distribution. The employee says that each of Max’s “facts” proved contrary to the network’s terms of service, as the advertising firm dos not tolerate “garbage.”

UPDATE: Max confirms that his “I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell” ads have been rejected by firms, and has this to say:

“Fuck them. I definitely had some agency pull some holier-than-thou trip a few weeks ago and I went elsewhere. I’m not paying them money so they can tell me what my ads are supposed to be like. Fuck them, and anyone who thinks they can tell me what to say or not say.”

Last month, Tucker Max’s cross-country movie premiere tour hit Raleigh, where students from the North Carolina State Women’s Center were on hand to protest the screening. Max’s people, predictably, had some anti-feminist fun with it, and posted the video online. In the video, Max sends out his minion to interview the protesters while masquerading as a gay Duke student writing a thesis on “the linguistics of rape culture.” Of course, anyone actually interested in the linguistics of rape culture need only watch “I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell” to figure out what it sounds like. Basically, there are a lot of references to “cum dumpsters.”

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