Please, can sopmbody point me in the direction of these sexual exploitation games?

 

-- teh moominz --

'He's right, but what about his group's members who make and market games depicting sexual exploitation and violence as fun?

A little outrage is due there, too, for creating the problem in the first place'

 

Sorry, maybe 'his group's members' got confused as to what was acceptable, due to the fact its perfectly acceptable for films, book, and art, to depict sexual exploitation and violence, but for no apparent reason, videogames are  somehow different.

heres a hint, apply the standards across the board to all media , and maybe it would be clearer that this was a 'problem', but if you aint gonan do that, i suggest you keep your hypocritical mouth shut!

 

Here we go again, blaming games for everything that goes wrong in society. Minnesota's the one that created the problem. While I'm not happy with the ESA for turning the other cheek when it comes to these controversies, Mike's right. You can't relate games to tobacco, alchohol, and firearms. We're talking about art, not harmful chemicals.

He's right, I'm outraged! Damn you video games, movies, books, music, television, and LIFE!! Extra damn to LIFE for creating all the things that these horrid pieces of entertainment are based upon!!!

 

Seriously though, his statement is pretty unfair to all the other things that depict violence and sex. I really don't know what games he's talking about when he says "sexual exploitation", and the generalization that "games depicting violence as fun" seems to put it as though he views all games containing violence to be nothing more than trivial action games (action movies, meanwhile, are fine), whereas most of the truly good ones depict violence in a much more serious and dramatic tone, as something that shouldn't happen, but has to for the sake of whatever the hell the story is about. Even GTA doesn't exactly put violence in a positive light, since attacking people in the game should only be done when nessaccary, lest you attract the attention of the police. The only reason it's fun is because it's so interactive. So no sale on getting outraged over a non-existent problem. I have more important shit to do, like wait for all the violence caused by the written alphabet, the paperback novel, comicbooks, heavy metal, and Power Rangers to go down like those researchers promised.

 

-If shit and bricks were candy and tits, we'd all be livin' large. For information on games and psychology, look up: Jonathan Freedman(2002)Block & Crain(2007)Grand Theft Childhood, by Harvard Medical School researchers Larry Kutner and Cheryl Olson

I wonder if he realizes that media is marketed to the imature(mentaly) not THE IMATURE(minors)........

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What a badly written editorial.  The focus was the settlement money, but then it veered off and started yammering about something else.

"violence as fun"

So the newspaper in question will be the first in line to advocate for restrictions on:

boxing, ice hockey, football, competitive budo sports, movies and japanese game shows

eh?

Never mind the fact that children play violently from the moment they can play. When they're toddlers, they bang and throw their toys around, when they grow a little they'll play cops and robbers (or indians and cowboys a few decades ago), when they go to kindergarten and school they gonna push and shove other kids to establish a pecking order. And all this violent play is absolutely normal. Just like playing violent video games.

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