"Frumpy Mom" Responds To Attacks

[lemby117]

OH MY GOD! IT'S JACK THOMPSON IN A WOMAN SUIT!

yeah we thought we got him but then he just uses his satanic apoclypse powers to morph into a (FRUMPY?) woman seriously though i play games but i am also one of the most inteligent in my class.

 

[cheeseslapper]

All you have to do is ask any teacher about his or her students' critical thinking skills these days and you will hear a TORRENT of horror stories about kids who have lost the power to think.

Where do you think that's coming from? Right. TV, computers and video games.

i LOL'ed so hard at this and which teachers is she talking too. I come from a family of highly praised teachers amoung teachers and parents and they LoL'ed too saying, if anything its the opposite , and kids who do have way better problem solving skills.

 

[Danman1]

She almost got it right to. She controlled and limited her kids vidja' game and T.V. time and took some parental responsibility. But she's gone too far into the other spectrum of stupidity, We've gone from Uninformed Jack Thompsons and Fox and Friends who want to ban all video games because they assume what they don't understand is evil (lost my control a bit there) to uninformed parents who want to ban all video games because they assume what they don't understand must be evil because children enjoy it, but she doesn't, so it must be bad for them. Why doesn't she let us decide what to let our children play and she can fill her own childrens heads with her stupidity and bitterness because they're the only ones who should ever take her opinion seriously. (Wow, reeeeeally carried away there. I love to rant.)

 

[akwardwhistle]

Inbreeding should stop.

 

[Vanguard_Ex]

Okay, now I'm piss'd. I play my X-box everyday, and yet, I'm the best writer in my English II class. Oh, I also listen to. *Gasp* Hollywood Undead.

Quote this Frumpy!

Gah, Hollywood Undead? D:
Butbutbut they spread messages of teen violence and hatred!

I kid of course, I'm the same. Hollywood we're never going down.

Hooray! Together us Hollywood Undead lovers shall burn that witch of a mom! AND THEN THE WORLD!

AND MARCH TO THE DRUMS OF THE DAMNED

WHILE DRUNK!

Not a reference, just a suggestion.

I like it.

 

[Mortars]

So... raise your hand if you think she's a DICK?

o/

 

[MetallicaRulez0]

"YOUR HOBBIES AND INTERESTS ARE WRONG, AND YOU SHOULD BE ASHAMED OF IT."

^ Is the bulk of her argument, yes?

 

[Volucer]

Anyone else think that if we hitched her up with Jack Thompson that we could bring about world peace?


...or the end of the world...

 

[IHateDaManSkirt]

This is such common behavior among the stupid. trying to shove your beliefs down everyone's throats without any thought on the matter. Children are unable to think because of games? It requires thought to play a game. Schoolteachers believe games are bad? Most schoolteachers( in my experience) know very little other than what they teach. Harry Potter is a good alternative to games? It's plot cannot even compare to such epics as The Uncharted series. Don't extremists like her believe that Harry Potter is from the satan.

 

[Dommius]

I acctully commented on her blog, heres what I wrote: (Warning big wall of text)

"For this comment I?m going to take some points from the article and respond. I?d also like to point out I am both a life long Gamer and in my third year of university (In England) studying psychology.

Frumpy Mom:
?All you have to do is ask any teacher about his or her students? critical thinking skills these days and you will hear a TORRENT of horror stories about kids who have lost the power to think.
Where do you think that?s coming from? Right. TV, computers and video games?

?Or poor parenting. Video games and technology is an easy outlet to attack for those parents who don?t or can?t see it is their own lack of parenting skills that leads to these problems (I?m not suggesting you Frumpy Mom are one of these people but they definatly exist) If parents don?t spend proper time with their children and take a personal intrest in their lives and education things will drop, this laid back style of parenting is more common in the modern world. (I suspect the Mom who phoned the police due to her son playing games was one of these types).

Frumpy Mom:
?I can?t help recalling this sweet boy who invited my son over for his birthday party. I walked into their home, which was dominated by a giant TV on which video games were playing. The so-called ?party? consisted of boys sitting around playing various games, plus cake.?

I?ve had party?s like this, even ones where everyone plays, but they did not lack interaction, far from it, I found that gaming acted as a bit of an icebreaker, there was a lot of talking and interaction caused by it. The Nintendo was called ?Wii? because it indicates more than one player, fun for all. Maybe next time you should attempt to join in and play the game yourself when this happens, don?t worry the controller won?t turn into Voldermort. Its not that interaction is dead at thsoe times it just takes on a different face, like the kind of interaction you get playing a board game.

Frumpy Mom:
?Video games are educational? Sorry, people, I do not believe for one second you are learning quantum physics while you are shooting down zombies.?

Not all games avalable are like Grand Theft Auto or Left 4 Dead
There are a significant number of brain training games around (paticularly on the DS such as The Professor Layton Games), also a lot of games like Portal which have puzzles where you have to use your brain to figure them out and complete the game.

?Video game addiction is becoming more and more recognized as a social problem, mostly for young men under the age of 30 with low self-esteem. There are even addiction clinics all over the world for guys who need help.?

The same can be said for many things such as execise. Their is such a thing as addiction to execise, but would you say execise is a product of an evil power, of course not! Moderation in anything is the key, and in moderation Video games can be fine improving coordination and getting rid of bottled up agression in a way that does not hurt anyone.

To summerise: Video game can have their benefits and are fine in moderation. Even when they become a problem they are a symtom of bigger issues (like poor parenting) rather than a cause. There are many types of games, not just shooters, but racers, puzzlers, sports and many more. Games are meant to be fun for all, its just occasionally the negative aspects get over magnified by the media leading to an attack on games due to a lack of understanding of the full topic, Almost like how centeries ago anyone involved in science would be burned for witchcraft and for being involved with The Devil, simply due to a lack of knoledge about what science is. Is it drastic, hysterical and controversal to compare the attack on videogames to witch burnings? I say only as drastic, hysterical and controversal as comparing video games to the Devil or Voldermort."

Now, we'll have to see how she replies to this. You put your message clearly and with no trace of a personal attack on her, but is she a big enough person to reply in kind? Unfortunately, judging from what I've read, likely not. We can always hope though.

Personally I'd love to jump on the torches and pitchforks bandwagon we seem to have going on around here and take her down a peg but all that does is add more fuel to the fire, and lets face it. She has more then enough at her disposal.

 

[KP Shadow]

Frumpy Mom, if you are reading this, please create an account here and respond to this thread, you gender-switched clone of Jack Thompson.

 

[DaMan1500]

On the off chance that "Frumpy Mom" actually reads this, YOU ARE WRONG. Videogames are not corrupting the youth of the world. Comic books, Rock & Roll music, TV, and Harry Potter have all been accused of corrupting the youth of the world. Maybe there's a chance that not everything that came after your generation is evil.

 

[BenzSmoke]

Lost the power to think? Then how do they become programmers later in life?

 

[Mr.PlanetEater]

Guys, her statement of computers making you unable to think coherently is true, she typed that entire psycho babble of an essay on a computer!/sarcasm

 

[KP Shadow]

oh God....im so disgusted... how can she write something like that? its like saying "im rich, and im better than you suckers cause i got MONEY! all your arguments are invalid, cause i got MONEY!"

"Screw the rules, I have money"

 

[Frank_Sinatra_]

Ugh... She's a complete moron who blogs for attention. However the responses by some people on her post aren't that fabulous either.
As gamers we should try and respond to her stupidity with intelligence, or just this. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwEvfkgA2Zs&annotation_id=annotation_724254&feature=iv]

 

[plastic_window]

I'm glad she's reading The Escapist.

To channel the Frumpy Mom directly, I'm going to state this:

This woman is beyond saving. She will never change.

Move on with your lives, people, nothing to see here.

 

[dreadmaster]

picks up a hammer OK THATS FUCKING IT I HAVE HAD ALL I CAN STAND OF THESE FUCKING SELF LOVING HOLYER THAN THOUGH VIDEO GAMES ARE MADE BY SOMTHING EVIL AND I AM GOING TO PUT A END TO THIS RIGHT NOW........can anyone spot me bus fare to get to calliforina