WhiteNachos said:
You oppose the condemnation or you oppose the simulated acts of violence?
I think there is something puritan about butting into people's sex lives and telling adults what consensual acts they should and shouldn't do out of their own personal sense of "morality".
I oppose the simulated acts of violence. Men have no business engaging in sexual behavior that mimicks the violence they do to women outside the bedroom on a daily basis.
Our sexual behaviors can and do perpetuate oppressive social systems and are not beyond critique. There's nothing "moralizing" about it.
WhiteNachos said:
No shit. Cars haven't been around for thousands of years. Do you have a point?
The arguments about whether this stuff is offensive or encourages real life violence don't change based on how long the crime has been happening.
The point is that women aren't complaining because they "don't like it" - they're complaining because the actions being simulated happen *every goddamn day* and it's insensitive and shitty for men to derive enjoyment from simulating them while men are also going out and doing the actual violence.
And why does there need to be an "epidemic" of the crime before their complaints are valid? That just seems like a totally arbitrary criteria.
Because the complaint is that we should not make a fun little side thing in a game out of a serious crime that is currently very common and almost completely unopposed in our society. That's the whole point.
But if you insist, how about cops? I'm sure they've been murdered for thousands of years. Hell if you kill cops in the game you get a gun, which is far more useful than the petty cash you get for killing civilians.
I don't care about cops. I hate cops.