Feminists Outraged by Interactive DVD Available on Amazon

I think it was meant to be a jab at the helpless princess stereotype.

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Debates are like merry go rounds. Two people take their positions then they go through the same points over and over and over again. Then when it's over they have the same positions they started in.

 Yes, exactly. Don't like their critique? Don't read it.

It's more an issue of normalization, I think. I don't believe anyone, outside of nutbars, believe that someone who plays a violent or sexually violent video game will be turned into a sociopath or what have you. But the normalization effect is something that's tangible, measurable, and confirmable.

A person is sort of a reaction to a mass of influences, and their opinions are informed by those influences. There are ways to make an idea more influential, through all sorts of psychological tricks and forces--Sort of like salesman do. Normalization and stereotyping are a few of those ways, and this has been confirmed--expose a person to some racist, sexist, homophobic material, even on a small scale, and over time, they'll start to think less of the group targeted. Showing them with similar traits will build up ideas in people's minds that are quite sticky and entrenched. Think of the opinion center as a sort of pliable membrane, and repeated, low-level prodding will build up a resistance.

A culture as a whole also has this membrane. That's where we get our cultural values from. And the values change over time in reaction from certain pressures on that membrane, and all of those pressures stem from ideas. A few people thought poorly of women, designed a system that reinforced and reflected that belief, and after a while of everyone living in that system, that idea gets spread around to everyone. Everyone's opinions are, in many ways, reflections based off of the culture they live in. This is not to say that everyone in a specific culture has the same opinions--indeed, people have quite different outlooks on certain things, because of the way they specifically were brought to frame those ideas. But the cultural construct of, say, gender, is there.

Normalization is a repeated buffetting on the cultural membrane to build up a resistance to it. Low-level communications that forced sex, or unconsensual sex, or date rape, or that men deserve sex even if the woman doesn't want to, that stuff adds up. Look at films and books and comics in the 40's to the...gosh, right to the 80's. The bad guys were communists, or veiled representations of communists. Now, in the 21st century, we think of communism as just a political philosophy, but it was a MORAL thing back then. People were scared of that philosophy--not just the bomb, but the idea that one day the US would wake up and be a communist state. Anyways, as that stereotype in media went away, so did the fear.

According to their actual post, their argument seems to be is, "profiting off of sexual and psychological abuse is completely unacceptable."

http://www.popularculturegaming.com

And what about the children?  For heaven's sake!  Don't forget about the children!