The debate over graphic Japanese sex games such as the disgusting and controversial RapeLay continues with word that the United Nations is stepping in.
At a meeting earlier this month, the U.N.'s Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women called for a ban on explicit video games and anime. As reported by Anime News Network, the committee urged Japan to ban "the sale of video games or cartoons involving rape and sexual violence against women which normalize and promote sexual violence against women and girls."
The committee also expressed concern "at the normalization of sexual violence in the State party as reflected by the prevalence of pornographic video games and cartoons featuring rape, gang rape, stalking and the sexual molestation of woman and girls."
Via: Kotaku
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Re: U.N. Steps Into RapeLay Controversy, Urges Ban
It's still a weak excuse in my humble opinion.
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Re: U.N. Steps Into RapeLay Controversy, Urges Ban
It's not an excuse. It's why I don't hate anime.
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I'd like to hear this too. I never got into anime, but I just avoid it and ignore it and so far it's working exceptionally well.
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Re: U.N. Steps Into RapeLay Controversy, Urges Ban
Well then you're an even bigger jerk than the ones who ban it because they think it will harm society.
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Re: U.N. Steps Into RapeLay Controversy, Urges Ban
I realize that this is a joke but... Anonymous? UN? Seriously?
Re: U.N. Steps Into RapeLay Controversy, Urges Ban
Nothing to see here....move along......
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Oh for the love of... we had JUST forgotten about this stupid non-controversey, UN, and then YOU had to bring it BACK up!
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Re: U.N. Steps Into RapeLay Controversy, Urges Ban
This is more a case of old news than of the UN bringing it back up. As the article says, this meeting took place weeks ago.
Re: U.N. Steps Into RapeLay Controversy, Urges Ban
Are you sure it's not a case of GP not having used the words "RapeLay" and "disgusting" in a sentence in over a month and therefore it just being high time to do so?
Re: U.N. Steps Into RapeLay Controversy, Urges Ban
The Kotaku article referenced in the GP article is from today, so if this is just some attempt to keep the controversy alive, it's not all on GP's part.
Re: U.N. Steps Into RapeLay Controversy, Urges Ban
He's like a preacher who claims to be disgusted by homosexuality yet is so obsessed with it that he won't shut up about it.
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I wonder, has anyone dug up cases of GP slaming some columnist for talking about 'that disgusting murder simulator GTA4'... it would be funny to have them side by side,
Re: U.N. Steps Into RapeLay Controversy, Urges Ban
At least, as you noted below, the Rapelay stories containing GP's "disgusting" characterization now have "Editorial" and "Opinion" tags attached. Unlike previous RapeLay stories. Everyone's entitled to their opinion. And GP, as the editor, is entitled to editorialize.
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Except that the featured article isn't an opinion piece, nor an editorial. Personally, I would have no problem with GP interjecting his opinion into his write-ups, but to do so while priding yourself on a "we report, you decide" (which he has been quoted as saying) approach is highly contradictory at best, blatantly hypocritical at worst.
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Re: U.N. Steps Into RapeLay Controversy, Urges Ban
Putting aside contradictions and hypocrisies, what I find more concerning is the apparent willingness to treat some but not all video games as worthy of First Amendment protection. That's on helluva slippery slope down which to start heading.
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Oh come on now, it's a long stretch from "this is disgusting" to "this should be banned."
I personally find it disgusting too. That doesn't mean I think it should be illegal.
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I'm not under the affluence of incohol as some thinkle peep I am. I'm not half as thunk as you might drink. I fool so feelish I don't know who is me, and the drunker I stand here, the longer I get.
Re: U.N. Steps Into RapeLay Controversy, Urges Ban
While never having said "this should be banned" in so few words, I don't think GP's made much attempt to hide the fact that he wouldn't shed a tear if RapeLay was indeed banned. At least, that's my takeaway. I could be wrong.