Lad culture (also laddish culture and laddism) is a subculture commonly associated with Britpop music of the 1990s.
"The image of the 'lad' or 'new lad' arose in the early 1990s as a generally middle-class figure espousing attitudes conventionally (though not necessarily correctly) attributed to the working classes". In an ironic, self-conscious fashion, "lads took up an anti-intellectual position, scorning sensitivity and caring in favour of drinking, violence, and a pre-feminist and racist attitude to women as both sex objects and creatures from another species".
Read more about Lad Culture: Origins, Postfeminism, Negative Effects, Ladette, In Literature
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“Halt by the headstone naming
The heart no longer stirred,
And say the lad that loved you
Was one that kept his word.”
—A.E. (Alfred Edward)
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