I really don't want to give this guy more attention than he deserves, but Holy Goddamn hell! How many flaws with this guy's statements can YOU find?

http://www.townhall.com/Columnists/Kevi … ments=true

>>It's called "Mass Effect" and it allows its players - universally male no doubt - to engage in the most realistic sex acts ever conceived.

So is this man pontificating that the point of the game is to have sex?

>>Starting with the disgusting idea that one can "create" their own versions of what people look like, removing warts, moles, and bald spots while enhancing - shall we say - the extended features of the game's characters tends to objectify women, sex, and human relationships. Right? We can all agree on this?

What's so disgusting about creating a character the way you want to be represented in a game? This whole statement undermines the whole point of living a fantasy through video games. Also, how in any way does character creation objectify women, sex and human relationships? That's not what this game is about at all.

>>Now if I have trouble with my son taking his James Bond 007 games a little too emotionally, imagine the powerful effect that hormones add to the mix when the player's own character is copulating like jack rabbits with super-models, actresses, and anyone else they can spend the patience to create, name, and "put into play."

This guy sure talks about sex a lot. Nevermind the fact that the ONE (as in singluar) sex scene that takes place is totally tame compared to what's shown on late-night TV. It's not even an important part of the game!

>>If a pre-teen, teen, young adult, or adult male plays such a game in which the women DO submit without choice, are made to appear as Barbie streetwalkers, and perform whatever act can be imagined, what's to stop that same male from assuming that the women in his "other world" shouldn't be forced to do the same.

Without choice? Barbie streetwalkers? Where is this guy getting this? Also, "what's to stop that same male" from doing that shit in real life? Gee, I dunno. Common sense, maybe? How many children does he think actually grow up to rapists? On that note, where did he even get the correlation between Mass Effect and rape?

>>And because of the digital chip age in which we live - "Mass Effect" can be customized to sodomize whatever, whoever, however, the game player wishes.

I think at this point he doesn't realize himself what he's saying. Digital chip age? Sodomoze whatever, whoever, however?

>>With it's "over the net" capabilities virtual orgasmic rape is just the push of a button away.

At this point, I'm really just laughing. Read the interview and see for yourself.

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Now, before I begin, I'll note that I have no played the game, but in the interest of being at least somewhat informe I have read a few reviews and viewed a few clips.

marketing to fifteen year old boys.

Rated M for Mature. And though I haven't been paying attention, I haven't really seen it marketed at all, to any specific demographic.

It's called "Mass Effect" and it allows its players - universally male no doubt

I could pick out a dozen more quotations, but this one will do. He focuses exclusively on the idea of teenage male gamers abusing the game to create sexual fantasy scenarios, even making a sweeping generalization here that females couldn't possibly be playing the game as well. While I don't doubt that many more male gamers would play and/or take advantage of the features he speaks of (if there are any), it's not as if women can't take advantage of these features and objectify as well, which takes a lot of steam out of an argument built largely on "it degrades women!"

...to engage in the most realistic sex acts ever conceived. One can custom design the shape, form, bodies, race, hair style, breast size of the images they wish to "engage" and then watch in crystal clear, LCD, 54 inch screen, HD clarity as the video game "persons" hump in every form, format, multiple, gender-oriented possibility they can think of.

"I know because I've done a lot of experimentation with the game... for research purposes, of course."

And ever conceived, really?

component graphics

what

and perform whatever act can be imagined

Is there a menu that lets you select from a variety of sexual acts? Out of curiosity I've read a few reviews of the game, professional and fan, and not a one of them so much as mentions sexual content or scenarios, so I take it that, at the very least, it's not a core gameplay element.

We now know because of the lengthy track record of serial killer after another that addictive use of pornography was prevalent in case after case - long before the switch got flipped and what their masturbatory imaginations have given into became what they were forcing real live human beings to do.

If that's the case, you'd think there'd be an mastadonic spike in violent crimes after the internet was introduced. I know I became a serial rapist once I was able to download nekkid pictures.

how refreshing would it be for a President to prove to the nation that his own manhood was not in question and put his pen and signature to a bill that dealt with such simulated sex excess in a way that was punitive to its creators to such a degree that they would never recover from it?

Real men attack video games arbitrarily

He really makes it sound like there's some full blown Sex Mode in the game, and unless I'm mistaken, it seems to me that all there is is a singular storyline scenario scene that's quite tame to boot. The article is a marvelous example of how we can twist reality to see things that just aren't there.

If anything, I would question why only female homosexuality is possible in the game.

Made by (mostly) men and marketed towards men. My conclusion is that they simply don't have a sense of adventure.

The sex scene in the game is laughably tame (I've seen a man/woman version and a woman/woman version). Still, it doesn't surprise me that it's being blown out of proportion. Sex usually is.