Comments on: Animated violence crosses line (real violence still OK) http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2009/02/14/animated-violence-crosses-line-real-violence-still-ok/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:18:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Official Shrub.com Blog » Blog Archive » Brian Ashcroft, let me do your homework for you http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2009/02/14/animated-violence-crosses-line-real-violence-still-ok/#comment-161024 Official Shrub.com Blog » Blog Archive » Brian Ashcroft, let me do your homework for you Wed, 07 Apr 2010 23:36:42 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2009/02/14/animated-violence-crosses-line-real-violence-still-ok/#comment-161024 [...] Animated violence crosses line (real violence still OK) [...] [...] Animated violence crosses line (real violence still OK) [...]

]]> By: Spiders http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2009/02/14/animated-violence-crosses-line-real-violence-still-ok/#comment-145605 Spiders Wed, 11 Mar 2009 02:25:53 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2009/02/14/animated-violence-crosses-line-real-violence-still-ok/#comment-145605 Peter Hepper would be well aware of the shitload of solid evidence that shows links between video game violence and actual violence. Why does the state ignore the research of social psychologists, and sanction violent games? Because they are the outcomes the state wants from wide scale usage of such games! They want to teach boys that enlisting in the army is fun/heroic whatever, because they need pools of cannon fodder for their stupid wars over resources. They also want a continuation of women's oppression/subjugation/sexual terrorism. They want to teach boys to continue with that cause. Because this is all what's best for the state. Peter Hepper would be well aware of the shitload of solid evidence that shows links between video game violence and actual violence.

Why does the state ignore the research of social psychologists, and sanction violent games? Because they are the outcomes the state wants from wide scale usage of such games!

They want to teach boys that enlisting in the army is fun/heroic whatever, because they need pools of cannon fodder for their stupid wars over resources.
They also want a continuation of women’s oppression/subjugation/sexual terrorism. They want to teach boys to continue with that cause.
Because this is all what’s best for the state.

]]> By: Jonathan http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2009/02/14/animated-violence-crosses-line-real-violence-still-ok/#comment-145601 Jonathan Tue, 10 Mar 2009 21:30:59 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2009/02/14/animated-violence-crosses-line-real-violence-still-ok/#comment-145601 @Lara: <i>And as soon as I hear a guy say something along the lines of “I want to be feminist so I can be a better man” that’s a warning signal right there: he’s making this about himself and navel-gazing."</i> Right on. Whenever my s.o. sees a guy start that, she sighs, "Great. Not another episode of the Derek Show" (Or whatever the guy's name is). You can probably just walk away at that point. I doubt he'd even notice. @Lara:

And as soon as I hear a guy say something along the lines of “I want to be feminist so I can be a better man” that’s a warning signal right there: he’s making this about himself and navel-gazing.”

Right on. Whenever my s.o. sees a guy start that, she sighs, “Great. Not another episode of the Derek Show” (Or whatever the guy’s name is).

You can probably just walk away at that point. I doubt he’d even notice.

]]> By: Laughingrat http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2009/02/14/animated-violence-crosses-line-real-violence-still-ok/#comment-145583 Laughingrat Tue, 10 Mar 2009 02:23:20 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2009/02/14/animated-violence-crosses-line-real-violence-still-ok/#comment-145583 It was really great to read a post about this game (which I first heard about a few weeks ago) that made me laugh as much as it made me mad. That's really important for survival, the laughter. The anger, that comes naturally. The Chicken Justice League helped ameliorate the horror a little, too. It was really great to read a post about this game (which I first heard about a few weeks ago) that made me laugh as much as it made me mad. That’s really important for survival, the laughter. The anger, that comes naturally.

The Chicken Justice League helped ameliorate the horror a little, too.

]]> By: mearl http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2009/02/14/animated-violence-crosses-line-real-violence-still-ok/#comment-143134 mearl Wed, 18 Feb 2009 05:58:40 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2009/02/14/animated-violence-crosses-line-real-violence-still-ok/#comment-143134 Lara, I laughed when I read over how my comment sounded. I guess it's pretty rhetorical to ask a forum of radical feminists whether anyone's experienced the Amazing Fountain of Self-Justifying Platitudinous Dudely Ideological Diarrhea that can spout forth from a "nice guy." I guess I just like to hear the stories so I can compare notes. Every now and then I enjoy cackling at the foibles of dudes, usually while rubbing my long hairy legs together in glee and grooming my big pointy feminist teeth. In reality, the whole thing makes me really depressed even though I wish that, after all that goddamned time and effort, I may have had SOME lasting impact on SOME dude, somewhere. Lara, I laughed when I read over how my comment sounded. I guess it’s pretty rhetorical to ask a forum of radical feminists whether anyone’s experienced the Amazing Fountain of Self-Justifying Platitudinous Dudely Ideological Diarrhea that can spout forth from a “nice guy.” I guess I just like to hear the stories so I can compare notes. Every now and then I enjoy cackling at the foibles of dudes, usually while rubbing my long hairy legs together in glee and grooming my big pointy feminist teeth.

In reality, the whole thing makes me really depressed even though I wish that, after all that goddamned time and effort, I may have had SOME lasting impact on SOME dude, somewhere.

]]> By: kelly g. http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2009/02/14/animated-violence-crosses-line-real-violence-still-ok/#comment-143088 kelly g. Wed, 18 Feb 2009 00:09:58 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2009/02/14/animated-violence-crosses-line-real-violence-still-ok/#comment-143088 No offense taken, Jezebella. No offense taken, Jezebella.

]]> By: Jezebella http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2009/02/14/animated-violence-crosses-line-real-violence-still-ok/#comment-143080 Jezebella Tue, 17 Feb 2009 23:03:33 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2009/02/14/animated-violence-crosses-line-real-violence-still-ok/#comment-143080 You know what would be awesome? Is if I never, ever heard anything about any dude's "jizz" ever again, much less that of a fictional character on a long-deceased sitcom. Like, what it was on, or how it got there, or what inspired it. I'm just sick of hearing about their cocks and what comes out of them. [I'm not picking on you, kelly g., it's just, I think your comment was the last damned straw for me today. Let me be clear: it's the dudes I'm sick of, and their goddamned toddler-like need to talk about their dicks all the time.] You know what would be awesome? Is if I never, ever heard anything about any dude’s “jizz” ever again, much less that of a fictional character on a long-deceased sitcom. Like, what it was on, or how it got there, or what inspired it. I’m just sick of hearing about their cocks and what comes out of them.

[I'm not picking on you, kelly g., it's just, I think your comment was the last damned straw for me today. Let me be clear: it's the dudes I'm sick of, and their goddamned toddler-like need to talk about their dicks all the time.]

]]> By: Smite Me! [.net] » Blog Archive » SSDD http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2009/02/14/animated-violence-crosses-line-real-violence-still-ok/#comment-143066 Smite Me! [.net] » Blog Archive » SSDD Tue, 17 Feb 2009 21:55:58 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2009/02/14/animated-violence-crosses-line-real-violence-still-ok/#comment-143066 [...] Sigh. Same shit, different day. [...] [...] Sigh. Same shit, different day. [...]

]]> By: kelly g. http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2009/02/14/animated-violence-crosses-line-real-violence-still-ok/#comment-143041 kelly g. Tue, 17 Feb 2009 20:07:56 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2009/02/14/animated-violence-crosses-line-real-violence-still-ok/#comment-143041 Sadly, I found myself relieved that George was jizzing all over a copy of <i>Glamour</i> instead of, say, <i>Highlights</i> or <i>Cat Fancy</i>. IBTP Sadly, I found myself relieved that George was jizzing all over a copy of Glamour instead of, say, Highlights or Cat Fancy.

IBTP

]]> By: Flores http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2009/02/14/animated-violence-crosses-line-real-violence-still-ok/#comment-142951 Flores Mon, 16 Feb 2009 22:56:31 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2009/02/14/animated-violence-crosses-line-real-violence-still-ok/#comment-142951 Twisty wrote: "Frankly, I don’t see why killing games get a free pass, either. They’re predicated on the same culture of domination and submission that produced the rape game. They’re all on the same continuum, and I don’t care what anybody says, video games don’t exist in a vacuum." Exactly. As unsettling as it can be, the character of our fantasies matters. While not nearly as disturbing as subject at hand, most any action video game has troubling implications. Is it healthy to want to stand triumphant over the bloody bodies of aliens or Nazis? Kill to gain the power to kill more and eventually save the world via violence. I see plenty to criticize in that narrative. Fireflew wrote: "I’ve found this time and time again, though - all bets being off as soon as any critique of compulsary sexyfunness/pornification/objectification of women enters the discussion." Yeah. In a recent discussion about high heels, one of my comrades felt the need to point out how sexy he finds them. He grasped the problems, and mentioned he could recondition himself, but didn't seem particularly interested in doing so. Twisty wrote: “Frankly, I don’t see why killing games get a free pass, either. They’re predicated on the same culture of domination and submission that produced the rape game. They’re all on the same continuum, and I don’t care what anybody says, video games don’t exist in a vacuum.”

Exactly. As unsettling as it can be, the character of our fantasies matters. While not nearly as disturbing as subject at hand, most any action video game has troubling implications. Is it healthy to want to stand triumphant over the bloody bodies of aliens or Nazis? Kill to gain the power to kill more and eventually save the world via violence. I see plenty to criticize in that narrative.

Fireflew wrote: “I’ve found this time and time again, though – all bets being off as soon as any critique of compulsary sexyfunness/pornification/objectification of women enters the discussion.”

Yeah. In a recent discussion about high heels, one of my comrades felt the need to point out how sexy he finds them. He grasped the problems, and mentioned he could recondition himself, but didn’t seem particularly interested in doing so.

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