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Originally Posted by glatt
I'm not going to defend a game where you rape women, but I think it's interesting that nobody seems to have a problem with all the video games where you kill people. Isn't murder worse than rape?
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Originally Posted by glatt
I agree with you that the game is really sick. This game feels worse to me than Grand Theft Auto, for example, but I wonder why that is. I don't think it's logical for me to feel that way.
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I'm with Shawnee on this, I don't think this game can be compared to any mindless killing game. The reason is because this game is an attack on women. In Grand Theft Auto, the killing is indiscriminate and has no meaning but this game has the point to rape women. The only games this could be compared with is one that sets out to kill homosexuals or lynch blacks.
This game reinforces the patriarchal power setup in our society and would be a very negative influence on boys because they may start to act, more than they would, with that sense of patriarchal power. That doesn't mean that boys will start to go out raping women, but they will start looking at them as they are presented in this game.
I'm not saying that Grand Theft Auto would not be harmful to a child but a child is not going to go around killing people or stealing cars, the point of the game is too exact to replicate or be influenced in any way but this game can easily influence young boys to act in a sexist nature.