Let’s start with a rant, on “equality”.
Anyone who pays attention to the news about the otaku culture or any other blog that deals such might have already heard the old news about feminist group named “Equality Now” succeeded in bringing down a rape simulator game “Rapelay” by Illusion soft.
The group sprang into action after a UK newspaper uncovered this “shocking” and “horrifying” game on a slow news day. One MP of UK actually said the following, It is intolerable that anyone would purchase a game that simulates the criminal offence of rape.”
The article on “Equality Now” ‘s page states suggests that there is a direct link between the game-play of which the player molests a girl on the train has to do with actual molestation happening in real life. Basically, if you play the game, you are going to be a train molester. Which would make Japan have the highest sexual crime rate in the world…oh wait, they don’t.
Under such success, the group now suggests that they should actually have the power to control what Japan’s porn industry produces as it will eventually flow into worldwide and ‘poison’ every citizen that comes in contact with it, making each of them a sexual offender. Funny how there’s only 0.017 rape per 1000 people in Japan and not 0.142 per 1000 in UK or 0.30 per 1000 in the all ‘free country’ USA where this saintly group is trying to push its baseless idealism on other countries.
With UK’s media being the trigger that lead to the US feminist group bringing more “female equality” into world, it might be worth mentioning that a recent law in UK states that state-funded corporations will have to hire more blacks, homosexuals and women to “reflect the make-up of the UK population”. Meaning that programs that only feature male hosts might be in the line of fire as BBC is also state-funded. Also, judging from that, a law to bring more golfers, STD patients, and women with mustaches will probably soon come into place.
Seriously, I am a bit fed up with this crap. Bringing the word “equality” into things that really about equality, if not the exact opposite of equality. In the “Rapelay” case, what the hell are they on about? Japan, as we all know, probably has more porn than half the world combined and yet their rape rates aren’t through the roof. UK with its stuck up laws is almost 10 times as bad as Japan and USA is about 20 times. To begin with, people who play these games are going to become a rapist is an absurd idea in the first place. People who will break the law and become a rapist will do so with or without helping from the game; and people who aren’t going to become rapist aren’t going to become rapist no matter how many rape games they play. Rather, why would rapist even play these games if they are going to actually rape someone in real life anyways? There is nothing wrong with having a medium that does things that one can’t do in the real world. This feminist group needs to seperate fact from fiction, more so reality from virtual reality. These girls being raped in “rapelay” are polygons and scripts. Turn your goddamn focus on female that are actually being rape instead of fictional ones, holy crap!
On the same scale, UK’s new law about having to hire black, homosexuals and females. Heck, isn’t this law being patronizing, sexist and racists as it is? It is putting people in groups that employers have to employ, and that’s quite discriminating.
Phew, a heavy first post not counting that introductory one. That’s it for now before I explode into a million pieces from rage!
May 13, 2009 at 6:45 pm
This is very interesting! I completely agree with you about the RapeLay game. It’s better if someone enjoys their rape fantasies in a safe way instead of acting it out on a real human being. Sometimes people miss the point – the game isn’t the one raping people.
One point in your article I dislike is your disagreement with the new UK law. You say that the law is “putting people in groups.” You make it sound as if the law is the one putting the people in groups. The problem is that the groups have existed for a very long time, and only now are we beginning to try to make it more fair. No one wants to eliminate males from BBC programming. I’m pretty sure that (white?) males will still hold most of the show time. Yes, it will be sad if a male’s program gets canceled, but I want to know how they received that show in the first place? Why was that male chosen and what great host never got a chance to speak at all because of the limitations? Also, I’d love to hear your opinions about any new programming that might pop up. You might find it refreshing to hear new view points.
Anyways, great first article! Hope to see more posts soon.
May 13, 2009 at 8:56 pm
As far as the second one goes, it’s a bit nifty. Put it this way, do you not find, in this case, it is discriminatory against majority groups? It almost puts it as if, “because you are majority, you are ‘bullying’ minority. Therefore, to show that you are not, you must hire the minority groups.”
It’s a bit of an opt in and opt out thing, really. By standard, being a discriminating bastard is an opt in thing, you have to actually behave like a discriminating jerk to be one.
However, this law changes it into an opt out feature. You have to proof your innocent instead of proof of guilty.
Let me try to put it this way: If you have 1 position available and 400 comes to interview, with white and straight being the dominant group, they make up 380 of the 400. The other 20%s are minority groups. So chances of actually getting a better qualified person for the job rests with the majority group.
With the new law however, now you aren’t thinking about qualifications. You are thinking about how to not screw yourself over having the gov’t going, “why the hell aren’t you hiring blacks?” when in reality, there aren’t enough qualified ones and you find better qualified ones in the more dominant group.
Groups, do not exist by nature. People, make groups. We view them at groups, we label them. In natural laws, they are just humans. A normal person should see everyone as “humans”, of course, gender is a considering factor in mating. Otherwise however, we should think of them as humans. Then we can try to get to know them a little better before we can judge them by personality, characteristics, and such.