RapeLay Developer "Bewildered" By Furor Over Game

Alyric: How could that possibly be construed as racist?

Perhaps you may be unfamiliar with anti-Japanese racism, but there's a long-established stereotype of "sneaky untrustworthy Japs", which mainly originated from WW2 (due to the Pearl Harbor surprise attacks), was reignited during the 1980s over fears of the surging new Japanese economy (Japan was regularly accused of practicing sneaky and underhanded economic tactics), and still lingers to this day, especially among the older generation. This stereotype also has looser connections to the wider "inscrutable Oriental" stereotype which predates WW2 (Victorian era).

In that context, it's quite easy to construe racism when you claim that there's a rape epidemic despite evidence to the contrary, especially when Japan's rate is still comparatively low even if you multiply their per-capita statistics by a horrifying factor of 10. The multiplied per-capita statistic for Japan is still comparable to the unmultiplied per-capita statistic of other Western nations; why aren't you saying that those Western nations have an "epidemic" of rape too?

Alyric: To be fair, I should point out that my information is second hand and nearly five years old. Perhaps things have changed a great deal since then.

People have been suspicious of Japan's low crime rate for much longer than a paltry five years. For decades there's been significant scrutiny from extremely capable foreign and domestic agencies, yet despite that there has never been any meaningful evidence of any kind of invisible "epidemic" of violent crimes such as rape. I personally think Japan has a lot of serious problems, but violent crime isn't one of them.

( And anecdotal evidence is quite frankly worthless, since everyone's is different and unverifiable. For example, my anecdotal evidence is the complete opposite of yours. My Western female friends felt much safer in Japan, and my Japanese female friends have complained that Japanese men aren't forceful enough, that they're too polite and meek. Is your anecdotal evidence right, or is mine? It's impossible to tell, which is why I didn't want to mention my anecdotal evidence in the first place. )

(( I apologize if I come off as forceful or rude, but your usage of "epidemic" was offensive, baseless, and completely uncalled for. ))

If you want to be technical, he said American Feminism is bad and then used radical nut jobs as an example for the whole group.

Cause i thought goodrobot misunderstood the previous post so i was adding my interpretation of it, why do you wanna know if you're truely apathetic about it? ;) hehe

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