Jim Geraghty busts hypocritical 'anti-rape-culture Rolling Stone' [photos]

Sarah D. | 7:38 PM on December 05, 2014

Looking at you, Rolling Stone:

Rolling Stone has always taken a loud stand against violent young men, right? pic.twitter.com/j3RSs1PCZf

— Jim Geraghty (@jimgeraghty) December 5, 2014

If there's ever been a publication that objected to the sexualization of violence, it's Rolling Stone. pic.twitter.com/G7QF1T0SuW

— Jim Geraghty (@jimgeraghty) December 5, 2014

Rolling Stone has always objected to those who glamorize the mix of sex and violence. pic.twitter.com/i4nepleF5U

— Jim Geraghty (@jimgeraghty) December 5, 2014

Ike Turner, Rolling Stone's pick as the 61st Greatest Guitarist in history. http://t.co/Or1PC1TVMl pic.twitter.com/B1DpGggw1i

— Jim Geraghty (@jimgeraghty) December 5, 2014

I'm just going to leave this here. pic.twitter.com/ZJdprcE5tq

— Jim Geraghty (@jimgeraghty) December 5, 2014

Rolling Stone has always gone out of its way to emphasize that violence is not sexy. pic.twitter.com/flFLJKlnmi

— Jim Geraghty (@jimgeraghty) December 5, 2014

Ahem.

Rolling Stone is awfully selective in where it sees "rape culture." http://t.co/PXDu0Go4pv

— Jim Geraghty (@jimgeraghty) December 5, 2014

From NRO:

Of course, Rolling Stone doesn’t mind those sorts of images on the cover because they’re good for newsstand sales, they reinforce the editors’ self-perception that they’re shocking and edgy, and they upset “the squares.” For a magazine to unleash the hounds on an alleged “rape culture” at the University of Virginia, and then offer cover images of sexualized violence on a semi-regular basis suggests that their mentality towards this “rape culture” is that art contributing to those attitudes aren’t so bad as long as a celebrity does it.