Revenge: Slash her face so no one will want her

Originally published on melindatankardreist.com

More Reasons to Hate Lad’s Mags: Zoo advises spurned lover to slash ex girlfriend’s face

I’ve written before about lad’s magazines which thrive on the objectification of women and act as porn training wheels for boys. 

Now Zoo has run an advice column  by British hardman actor Danny Dyer urging a heartbroken reader to “cut his ex’s face, so no one will want her”. The advice was written by regular British columnist and actor Danny Dyer. 

As well as the suggestion that he slash his ex girlfriend’s face, the reader was told: "You've got nothing to worry about, son. I'd suggest going out on a rampage with the boys, getting on the booze and smashing anything that moves." 

Zoo said it was a “production error”. Like really what they meant to say was “Time mends a broken heart son, give yourself space to heal and relax in a bubble bath”.

Fortunately the reader rejected the advice and said he couldn’t ever hurt the woman he was with for a year. 

More here from The Sun.

Danny Dyer doesn’t only suggest slashing women’s faces. He proposes setting their public hair alight, if it isn’t to a man’s liking. 

Kira Cochrane has written an excellent piece which asks, if Danny Dyers slasher comments were an error, what about the rest of Zoo? 

I'm glad that people have picked up on this comment, but I hope the anger won't flare up and die away as it usually does. This shouldn't be an excuse simply to lambast an individual…but to take notice of a magazine, and a wider culture, that depicts women as meat. If anything positive was to come out of this stupid throwaway comment, it would be that.