RapeLay BINGO
RapeLay was in the news recently again, and with that, a few particularly clueless posts from the mainstream media and the mainstream gaming press emerged. If you happen to go to any mainstream media sites (e.g., CNN) or mainstream gamer sites…
RapeLay: Reinforcing Rape Culture
There’s some discussion going on in gaming circles about how RapeLay, a game in which the goal of the player is to violently rape women, was removed from Amazon.com. The best analysis of this controversy that I have read so far…
‘Rape’: More Than a Word
One of my pet peeves of gaming culture (and I guess culture in general, since I’ve heard non-gamers use the word this way) is how gamers use the word ‘rape’. I recently read a blog post which explains that: To…
Overheard in Ashenvale: One Night Elf Says to the Other
I was walking east on the road in Ashenvale and see two male Night Elves walking towards me. Nearby is the corpse of a player. It appears to be an Undead character. One of the Night Elves says to the…
