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‘Student laddishness is a kind of rebellion against the new authoritarianism’

March 23, 2014 By Kathy Shaidle

Exactly:

Lad culture is merely a juvenile, but completely understandable, rebellion against the prudishness being foisted on university students today. In a space where crude, distasteful and un-PC expression is effectively battered out of existence, lad culture has thrived: in this stifling environment, self-aware crudity has become a form of subversion.

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