"Videogames Cause Rape" Author Gets Amazonbombed

[SenseOfTumour]

Without wishing to look smug -

Called it!

Quoting myself on the 8th: "Anyone think her books on Amazon are going to suddenly start getting 1 star reviews along the lines of 'I've never read any of her books, but I'm entirely of the BELIEF that they've led to an increase in rapes' ?"

Part of me things she's an unfortunate pawn of the Fox network, who just thought she could get some free publicity by being their sock puppet and spewing just the right amount of utter bollocks, but most of me things, good, if everyone gets similar treatment for spouting lies for money, then maybe they'll consider whether a short burst of sales is worth losing your reputation over.

Hell keep it up and Fox might run out of 'experts' and have to ask some ...experts instead.

A serious note to end on however, I'm not so pissed about the attack on gamers, I'm angry at the baseless use of RAPE to score some meaningless points about a game that,while I think it'll be fun, will be forgotten in 6 months, and it's not even a realistic shooter. Rape is not something to be used to score points, and from the kind of stuff she writes , she SHOULD be above such things, unless she actually believes it, in which case she's just fuckwitted, not evil.

 

[Gralian]

Lol.

Whining about rape in video games then publishing a book about sexual manipulation?

Yeeeeaaaaah.

Honestly, i don't even care about "showing the world gamers are level headed". I'd much rather sacrifice our PR to put this hypocrite in her place.

I can't stand people like this. They get on their high horse, and yet they're just as guilty, if not moreso, for the sins they are preaching against.

I'm sick of the whole good / bad girl / guy obsessions in modern culture. I hate the focus on being a "renegade" or "bad girl" to get anywhere in life. It's false and it promotes bad characteristics. I'll tell you what, if my girlfriend barely acknowledged me, spoke down to me, and flirted with other men in front of me without caring how i felt about any of it, i'd walk away at the drop of a hat. I don't want a "bad girl". I just want a girl and i want to love her for all her characteristics, good and bad. Not a goddamn stereotype. Ugh. It's insipid, vapid, hack authors like this who try to be political that really grind my gears.

 

[Nova Helix]

I feel like I accomplished something today now.

She deserves this, hopefully she will learn not to lie.

 

[Crazycat690]

you know, if everything they've said about gamers is true, we'd be violent murdurers and rapists, do they realize that millions of games are sold all the time, millions of gamers, and how many of these have actually done anything?

Last time I saw, it's the jocks that are bullying the nerds. So what? They're surprised some bite back? Well bu-hu. We see violence anywhere we turn, and half-naked women everytime we watch commercials...

ARRRHH! I feel like going outside randomly punching people and raping women!!! D:

 

[SenseOfTumour]

Here's the new plan guys. One of us has to become a mildly known book reviewer. Gain some clout, then get on a news channel. Call her book out for increasing the crime rate and leading to rape.

There's no way it can fail!

I imagine Cliffy B would be happy to appear on a Daily Show section, face down in a hospital bed, claiming that her book made a woman pull down his pants and shoot him in the asshole.

Female gun based violence towards male gamers must end!

 

[Darkauthor81]

Awesome. I'm sure this way the world will think gamers, in general, are level-headed people. Right?

Sorry, I don't agree that we should, again, take it stoically to the nose self assured of our own superiority. That's why democrats lose so many elections. It's a sick sad world. Get dirty.

 

[Irriduccibilli]

You just got owned Carol. Well, she got what she deserved

 

[shamil400]

The Internet hath no fury like a gamer scorned...

 

[Con Carne]

I hate to say it, but it sounds more like her book will cause females to get raped more often, instead of empowering them like her intention seems to be. Karma is a *****, and the gamer world calls her the same thing.

 

[Anchupom]

Wow, karma has internet now?

I'm soooooo fucked.

 

[Lionsfan]

Karma's a *****. You go on National TV and talk about something you don't know anything about and people are gonna affect you however they can. It's funny, you look at Lawrence Cooper's book on Amazon and it's still trashed [http://www.amazon.com/Cult-Perfection-Making-Peace-Overachiever/dp/1599211793/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1297361951&sr=8-1], what hope does this lady have?

 

[Curtisthekiller]

Reminds me of when people bombed that one woman's book on amazon after she said "I haven't played Mass Effect, but I'm sure I know what its about" or something like that. She then went on to call it a "rape simulator" among other things. Then her book was bombed with people saying "I haven't read this book, but I'm sure its about how to molest children." Or something like that.

its kinda like seeing a fight between fox news and that lawer that hated Grand Theft Auto, two entitys, one topic- No information...and~ GO

 

[mb16]

NEWS: FOX NEWS MAKES YOU A RAPIST!
oh you want proof well here is a graph, clearly showing the trends

oh you want a quote? well ok here is one from our cameraman (mail-ordered) doctor Dave.
so mister Dave you believe this then? "yes as the ev..." well ok thats all we have time for.

see fox i can also make up stories and data

 

[Anchupom]

I feel like I accomplished something today now.

She deserves this, hopefully she will learn not to lie.

Failing that lesson, we can just force her to carve it into the back of her hand...

 

[Canid117]

Fear the wrath of the internets for she is an uncompromising and vicious beast.


This woman was and almost certainly still is, horrifically stupid.

 

[Valok]

I love karma.

[http://img844.imageshack.us/i/791aeab87a6f4362a6cabf2.jpg/]

 

[CatmanStu]

Keeping with the spirit of her original statement, I have used my extensive knowledge of hypothetical psychology as well as my degree in advanced observational assumption to analyse her photograph.

It took a while to collate all the irrelevant data and sift through the hyperbole, but after five minutes of painstaking research I have concluded that she is a spoilt little princess who didn't get enough dick in high school.

 

[McNinja]

Carole Lieberman is the Ed Wood of authors. Bad Girls is pure trash writing that will no doubt have a terrible effect on society. Lock up your children, lock up your wives and husbands.. cause this book is raping everybody!

This is pretty much the best comment I've read so far.

Never mind.

I cannot believe this book has made it on to shelves! There's a woman's bare legs on the cover! Don't they know that showing a woman's bare legs increases the rape rate? What evidence do I have of this? None whatsoever! But really, if Carol can make up facts, so can I. It's a free country. And who knows what scandal lies between the pages! Hell, I'll never even read the book, but based on the cover and the reviews I'm sure that it must be a sexually charged romp! Sure, not having any first hand knowledge of the product would make it seem like I am lacking the insight to review the book, but since when has that stopped anyone?

this is.

 

[Kroxile]

Lol, hypocrits? On Fox News? No way!

 

[Frank_Sinatra_]

It's kind of immature of people to Amazonbomb her like this.

NO, what's immature is her bashing video games like this with nothing to stand on only to boost her own pocketbook.
THAT is immature.