"Games Cause Rape" Psychiatrist Defends Her Position

[kannibus]

Y'know I begin to think it's not video games which cause violence, but rather people that insist that video games cause violence are the cause of all the violence...

Lord knows, after I read her article, I was sure feeling a hell of a lot more belligerent...

 

[acidfwd]

Yeah, calling somebody a ***** and being agressive towards someone you disagree with makes your argument stronger, in particular, in this case.

 

[Knight Templar]

When one finds oneself in a hole it is usually best to stop digging.
Clearly she thinks to outride the storm.

 

[Spectre4802]

I hope we don't anything more from this stupid bint.

I'm sorry, I really can't find any other descriptive words. Not even a glimmer of mention of the studies she was asked (maybe that's not the right word, but let's roll with it here) to show.

When the Columbine murders took place, there were national polls where people voted on what they believed caused the two young men to kill. Media violence ranked high on the list

Huh... Apparently to her a "national poll" counts as a "study."
ROIGHT! Well then I'm going to have a "national poll" over the cuteness of bunnies and then call it a study!

I R DOKTOR NAO.

XD
Made me laugh.

 

[KaosuHamoni]

Wait, wait, wait...

Included with the statement were links to her supporting evidence, which included the American Psychological Association's "Resolution on Violence in Videogames and Interactive Media [http://www.apa.org/about/governance/council/policy/interactive-media.pdf]," which called for a reduction of violence in videogames being marketed to children and youth

Sorry, What!? Since when are violent games marketed to children? There's a certificate on these things you know, and if you buy these games for your children, when they are obviously not mature enough to play them, then you have no-one to blame but yourself.

 

[Mike Rapajic]

I would wreck that chick. *

*In a totally non-rapey way.

 

[oldtaku]

Speaking of 'condescension and dismissal,' she'd have been better falling on back on either 'Well it was Fox, what do you want?' or the implied 'I have a vagina, your arguments are invalid.'

Yes, I realize how flamey that is - I'm only half serious. But I am half serious.

 

[Niccolo]

When the Columbine murders took place, there were national polls where people voted on what they believed caused the two young men to kill. Media violence ranked high on the list

Huh... Apparently to her a "national poll" counts as a "study."
ROIGHT! Well then I'm going to have a "national poll" over the cuteness of bunnies and then call it a study!

I R DOKTOR NAO.

The difference being that bunnies actually are cute, so you'd be calling a "national poll" a "study" to support fact, rather than utter bullshit.

Shit... I didn't think anyone would call me out on my bullshit.
HOLY COW! I just made a parallel between that author and my random act of stupidity.
Thank you for helping me laugh much harder at her expense tonight.
xD

For bonus points, make sure to write your 'study' using correct units: Kittens (symbol k) are the standard unit of measurement of cuteness and are normally utilised as millikittens.

 

[Jamous]

She really is rather silly isn't she.... Ugh.

Also, nice evidence; even they concluded there was no obvious correlation....

 

[restoshammyman]

so she claims its true coz a study shows ppl think its real?
most ppl think chocolate gives dogs worms (it doesn't, its just like nerve gas to em)

if reality was what we believed it to be, the world would be a much better place.

 

[Fearzone]

It's fun watching people like her squirm under the light. I'm hoping she will, eventually, produce a couple of studies "proving" media violence causes actual violence, so we can have fun ripping those to shreds too.

To cite, off the top of her head, a poll taken around the Columbine shootings is really pathetic, as if there were nothing better she could even generally reference--like a professor or team doing actual research in the field. Given she has testified before Congress, she should know of at least a few.

 

[TehChuckles]

you know... I used to get angry about this type of "Doctor", waving around wild claims like they were proven facts. but now I just rest peacefully. humoured by knowing even with these doctors P.H.D.s and Diplomas. the the rest of the worlds population is still smarter than them and not as a group effort either.

although I do worry in specific situations... like when the government takes these people seriously as doctors and not as over exalted businessmen with a unjustified disliking towards certain industries.

 

[Fearzone]

For fun I looked up her medical license to see if she was a foreign medical grad, because what she said sounded pretty dumb. She got her medical training from the Catholic School of Louvain in 1975. If she grew up in Belgium I guess that's alright.

 

[ProGrasTiNation]

Someone should send her some flowers & a copy of bulletstorm.Her credibility(if she even had any)is now gone.lol

 

[Woem]

"I did not have them on my fingertips - not because I didn't know they existed - but because I thought that everyone already knew about these studies and I had them filed away." Yes, because when you write an essay you do not keep a bibliography, or a footnote which references the book and exact page you're quoting or referring to.

 

[comadorcrack]

I see... Well she is a physiatrist so we have to assume she has some knowledge of the human psyche. But frankly, the studies she chose to back up her arguments do seem very suspect. Especially when you consider the other studies done on the subject have found no proven link. In fact a study done in my home country (The Byron Review) has taken this as a forgone conclusion and started looking at what good can video games (the media more generally) do for children.

 

[Mattchris7885]

I will say look at the what she has supporting her claims, the official stand point of the APA (which is completely unbiased and consider every adult who plays games, in any form, as wrong as we all should've grown out of this) a study that says:

"It appears that VVGs only adversely affect some individual and those who are
affected have a preexisting disposition (i.e., high neuroticism, low
agreeableness, and low conscientiousness) which make them susceptible
to such violent media."

People in this state will be affected by anything. And an article for a game that a majority of gamers were disgusted about. She has failed to proove anything or even suggest a causal link. These studies don't support a single thing, they are showing the good doctor's ignorance on this subject.

If these people are to be believed there was no violence or rape or anything like that before there was television or video game media.

 

[Live4Lotus]

It took her a whole week to find two studies...that should be proof enough of how wrong she is; give me a week and I can find two studies that prove the earth is flat, two studies that prove bigfoot exists, and mathematical formulas that prove that god exists and that there is life on other planets.

All is well tho...I almost want violent video games to go away. Get rid of games where you save the world from an evil dictator, and people will have more time to focus on saving the real world from real evil dictators. Block porn too...that will cause a huge jump in rapes, and maybe then we can stop talking about the whole abortion thing when the president's daughter needs an abortion because she was raped. Oh, and bring back alcohol prohibition; it didn't work any worse than any of the other prohibitions, so we might as well go all out and make sure that the cartels get as much money as possible...that is clearly the goal behind current drug laws anyway.

Some seek to improve the system by degrees, others hope to burn it to the ground and start over...it seems that Fox News is in the second group...and I am just hoping that they get burned in the fire.

 

[Iglock]

Wow.

Even after reading the title I thought this must be about her issuing an apology- surely no one would be dumb enough to persist with what is so obviously a load of fabricated crap.

I guess I was wrong.

I do love how she tries to justify her comments though.
No evidence? "Oh, I didn't have them at the time." (yeah right)

Then, even better, she goes on to justify why she didn't have this "evidence".
"Oh, I knew they existed, but I though it was common knowledge"
So what she's implying is that it's not her fault that everyone else is an idiot for not already knowing about these pathetic excuses for "evidence".

...

Oh! I she what she's doing there...