I love living in Canada. As a gay woman, I stand by our Charter of Rights and Freedoms, http://laws.justice.gc.ca/en/charter/, because I think it gives me the liberty to be who I want to be while still acting within reasonable limits of our laws. In other words, I may try to streak down the street naked, but will respect any police officer who stops me from doing so…especially if she’s cute and wants to handcuff me.
Here’s an extremely harmful story for you: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/technology/4611161/Rapelay-virtual-rape-game-banned-by-Amazon.html. If you don’t feel like reading the article, RapeLay is a video game where the players repeatedly rape a mother and her two daughters and then force them to get abortions. The goal is to break the women’s spirit so that they become the players’ willing sex slaves.
I know that playing this video game will not encourage most men to go out and rape but the very fact that any man would want to play it to begin with is reprehensible. Regardless of the fact that the women are virtual and don’t exist, it’s the idea behind the game that is incredibly revolting. It isn’t about fighting the bad guys so the good guys can save the world, it’s about hurting innocent women for the simple pleasure of doing so.
I’m not being a hypocrite. I love to play video games, especially the ones where I get to shoot things. However, I made a socially conscious decision many years ago to only play games where I’m shooting at ducks, super villains, aliens, robots, or zombies. I acknowledge that shooting at virtual human beings won’t make someone go on a murderous rampage but it doesn’t mean I have to encourage those types of games by buying them and playing them.
Would my opinion change if the virtual women in RapeLay had guns and could protect themselves? Absolutely not! Again, the player’s goal is to rape women, not save the world.
Now I know some of you might say that if I find these types of games so offensive to just not play them. However, that’s a short term solution that solves nothing. I don’t believe in censorship but there are reasonable limits. Because I want to be able to protect women and children, I strongly feel we should make it very hard to get access to these types of games.
The company that makes this game, Illusion, is based in Japan. I was able to find an email address: illusion@illusion.co.jp. Though, I may not be able to stop the company from creating vile games like RapeLay, I can at least let the employees know how disgusted I am with what they’re doing.
On the 8th of March it was International Women’s Day. There is still so much to be done when it comes to protecting women and their rights, it boggles the mind. Did I mention that I’m grateful to be living in Canada?
No shooting at ducks or any animal please. Welcome back
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Tell me you’re kidding.
Please.
There’s no way that someone really made this game.
Please??
As-tu lu cet article-ci ? http://www.slate.com/id/2213073
Ça dit ceci : “RapeLay relies on the horrendous, wildly sexist fantasy that rape victims enjoy being attacked. After the exposition, the game essentially becomes a simulator of consensual intercourse. There’s kissing. The women orgasm.”
L’article parle aussi de la prémise et son lien avec un problème de société dans les métros au Japon:
“(…) more upsetting than RapeLay is the social environment that birthed it. The premise here is that a wealthy man is out for revenge against the schoolgirl who had him jailed as a chikan, or subway pervert. The epidemic of chikan is an enormous problem in Japan, particularly in major cities, where trains are so crowded that it’s easy for predators to conceal their crimes. In Declan Hayes’ 2005 book, The Japanese Disease, the author describes a community of salarymen who organize online “groping associations” and subscribe to publications that suggest ideal train lines and timetables for attacks.”…
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