video games

Thoughts on the RapeLay Video Game

by Cara February 13, 2009

Severe Trigger Warning Amazon.com was recently caught by the Belfast Times selling a Japanese video game called RapeLay. The entire objective of the game is to rape women with varying levels of violence — sometimes stalking them first, sometimes using gang rape scenarios, and sometimes forcing them into abortions afterward. One website review describes “tears [...]

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Men’s Magazine Desires World Without Meaningful Consent

by Cara December 18, 2008

This image, of a scantily clad woman attached to a video game controller with the caption “Keep on dreaming of a better world,” was posted without comment at Sociological Images. First of all, it seems pretty obvious to me what the man targeted in this ad (by a men’s magazine) is supposed to use the [...]

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