Comments on: Thoughts on the RapeLay Video Game

By: mollyfye | feminist, mother, doula, activist, writer

mollyfye | feminist, mother, doula, activist, writer — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 09:43:24 +0000

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By: Feminist Peace Network » UN Urges Japan To Ban Sale Of Games That Normalize Violence Against Women

Sat, 29 Aug 2009 14:47:25 +0000

[...] Earlier this year, it was discovered that Amazon was selling a Japanese game called Rape Lay. Cara Kulwicki describes the game this way on The Curvature: [...]

By: Cara

Cara — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 22:08:06 +0000

Wow Stat, all of that would be hugely relevant and would totally tear down my entire blog post if I had actually gone on a tirade about Japanese society and how this video game is causing huge rates of rape in Japan, and built up Western culture as some kind of bastion of gender equality and enthusiastic consent models.

Seeing as how that’s pretty much the opposite of what I argued, though, you just look really pointless and stupid. Oops.

By: stat

stat — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 22:04:08 +0000

Rapes per Capita (1000 people)

Japan: 0.017737
Germany: 0.0909731 5x
United Kingdom: 0.142172 8x
United States: 0.301318 17x

Where would you raise your child?

By: SunlessNick

SunlessNick — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 18:11:12 +0000

Well, it’s good to know that learning to kidnap and repeatedly rape women is at least supposed to be amusing.

So much so they decided to give a pun for a title.

By: Mayra

Mayra — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 12:52:50 +0000

Also there are forums for the game asking about wanted changes for a part 2 and people are requesting that there be a way to customize the victims. So you can rape the person you want to basically. I’m not saying the game will create rapists but customizing your victims is a lil extreme. And the players defend the game saying it’s a way to get out their urges/inner violence etc….Also the daughters room is all pink with teddy bears etc. Clearly a lil girl and when you rape her she bleeds. Disgusting!

By: Cara

Cara — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 03:07:51 +0000

There are other things in this world much more dangerous to women in the world than this.

And no one said that there wasn’t.

Oh, and refusing to publish certain comments on my personal blog in order to create a safe space? Not “silencing.”

By: Keppers

Keppers — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 01:48:15 +0000

Its amazing how you choose to silence a female voice because she does not share exactly the same viewpoint as you. It seems to me that you, if you every truly wish feminism to become mainsteam, you should embrace and contest arguments, rather than silence them without addressing them. Yes mods, this is aimed at you.

Personally, I am appalled by this game. I find it offensive to the senses and morally objectionable. That said, lets take a look at how many people have ordered this (hint: Not many) and while even one may be too much, think about the other objectionable material which exists in this world which panders to minorities. There are other things in this world much more dangerous to women in the world than this.

By: Cara

Cara — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 23:31:00 +0000

Dear everyone responding to this post:

This is a feminist blog. Read the comment policy. Comments regarding sexual violence are strictly moderated, and comments will only be open to those who display some kind of grasp of anti-rape/feminist thought. Nothing about how we should castrate rapists like that would solve the problem, or about how determined you are to “protect” your daughters from rape — even with more violence — as if that’s possible and really not just damaging paternalism, and especially no comments which go on about how rape culture doesn’t exist, or how talking about rape culture really only plants the idea in people’s heads that rape is okay even though they totally didn’t have the idea before. Those comments will be deleted. Even if they come from a woman! So you’re best served not leaving them.

By: Cara

Cara — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 15:57:27 +0000

when men forcible have sex with women against their will its called “rape”, and ofcourse (im not disagreeing with this idea) we consider it to be wrong/unlawful/indecent. But what do we call it when men are victims to women of this same event…suduction?….temptation?

It’s called rape. Stop perpetuating the myth that just because rape committed against women by men is extraordinarily more common, that feminists do not care about rape committed against men by women, or that we do not think it’s rape. “Sex” without consent is rape. Period. Genders are irrelevant to the definition.

mind you if a women did this you have to be a pretty dumb guy to complain but is it still not wrong?

No, a man would not “have to be pretty dumb” to “complain” about being raped. He’d be a victim expressing the trauma from what he was subjected to. So, also stop perpetuating the idea that only women can be victims and that men cannot. And lastly, if you leave one more rape apologist comment like the one above, that makes any excuse for rape whatsoever, no matter who is committed against, you are banned. The end. I am no more tolerant of apologies for rape committed against men than I am for rape committed against women.