Then the media say that games aren’t serious art. But then the idiotic vultures in the media picked it up and the whole thing got trashed. In fact, there was someone working on a Holocaust game that sounded like it was going to be an intelligent and educational approach to the Holocaust and even got support from the ADL. That’s not to say that RapeLay is a complex, serious game, but even if it were, the words “rape game” would condemn it before anyone had even tried it, just as “Holocaust game” would. We want mature games that deal with complex, difficult themes just as novels, movies or plays do. There are plenty of people who want to see video games graduate from the ghetto of social panics followed by rating schemes, timid kid-friendliness and outrage. Intelligent Middle Class Person can read a novel with a rape scene in and consider it intellectually, finding it disgusting but complex also. Video games are stereotyped as being for children and social outcasts in a way novels aren’t. You can read the Telegraph news story here.ĭo books with rape scenes make light of something serious and despicable, make rape seem normal or decrease the empathy society has for rape victims? There’s a more detailed and thoughtful piece over at The Curvature. It could play some role in making that crime seem normal, and further decrease the level of empathy society has for real people who have been raped. It makes light of something serious and despicable. And just for the record, I don’t think it matters whether or not anyone can show that there’s a causal link between playing the game and raping someone. MP Keith Vaz is intending to raise the matter in parliament. I’m utterly baffled as to how such things could possibly pass for entertainment. But sellers had been supplying UK customers via Amazon’s marketplace site. The game is produced by a Japanese company, and was only intended for sale in Japan. The aim of the game is to stalk and rape a family of women (there is an opportunity to gangrape individuals), and then force them to have an abortion. I’m pleased to report that Amazon are now refusing to sell the videogame ‘Rapelay’.
0 kommentar(er)
