“What? are you seriously putting your experience as an asian female as grounds for your stance?? let me tell you I was personally discriminated -and still am- for the first 20 years of my life for being asian, being a woman, I've been groped, Asians...
"are you saying it ok to repress freedom of speech because it's happening everywhere anyways?" No. "that because it's "just a single game with with few connoisseurs" nobody should complain?" No. I'm not saying that nobody should complain, but that i...
I see where you're coming from. You make a good point in that, although complete freedom of speech is impossible to attain, one should strive for it if censorship harms them (not just one person but a significant group of people) significantly compar...
@Vincent: I know. All I'm saying is something that I've been told as a fact all my life. Whether he believes it or not, it's completely pointless for him to argue it for obvious reasons.
I understand that Rapelay is not meant to openly discriminate against women. However, the idea of raping women is discriminatory in itself. Yaku, I have covered many other issues relating to mysogyny before. Let's be realistic. It's impossible to ba...
It isn't. In fact, it's being downplayed quite a bit despite it occuring irl just as much, if not more, than discrimination against racial minorities. "If there was a video game where white people killed black people, that game would be banned right...
Alright then. You don't have to believe me. However, whether there is a correlation between real-life murders/rape and playing rape video games, discrimination is wrong and is the issue that we should be arguing rather than what makes a source valid,...
However, those issues are "real" compared to what Syranide brought up. "What freedom of speech?" If we complain about things that supposedly don't even exist in today's society, then I really don't see where we're heading.
That's true. Also, a lot of luck is involved. :3 Also, the luck of beautiful genes does play a role if you want to become an idol/famous cosplayer/a profession where looks count. It does bring me great joy to see people like Danny becoming famous fr...
By the way, I think it's really immature of you to attack me personally. :/ You're clearly getting way to hyped up about how I'm being a hypocrite rather than discussing the banning of Rapelay. And whether you see me as a hypocrite or not, rape is s...
Basically, I'd rather tell what, to me, has been regarded as the truth than suppress the reality of how bad rape really is. Whether you agree with it or not, you should not target me for telling women to go kill themselves after reading my opinion, w...
The idea of the discrimination of women has real impacts on real victims, no matter how much people try to dodge and avoid it. The idea that "rape is worse than death" may also have real impacts. However, it is, personally, something that I have reg...
Ohh I enjoy debating you too! Debate is among my peculiar hobbies next to otakuism. xD I understand that people want to avoid a slippery slope. However, slippery slopes are a logical fallacy, as they assumer that point A (banning Rapelay and related...
Women are universally a minority, because, although they may surpass men in number, they do not have nearly as much power and influence as men. They are also discriminated against, which correlates to being the minority. So although they are greater...
I responded to your first point somewhere above. As for your second point, I don't get why almost everyone else is ranting about their freedom of speech being taken away, when it is being taken away all the time, every day in more mainstream ways th...
If you think I have the time to memorize every single source from every single lecture I have attended, you've got to be kidding me. The fact that this is coming from a professor from MIT (plus countless other teachers, mentors, and people I have me...
Exactly. And I don't see many obsessive otaku besides Danny and a few other people being massively successful. It is incredibly hard to manage both a really hardcore otaku life and a real academic career or job, plus other hobbies that may interest...
Yes, many women have committed suicide as a result of rape, especially in third world countries. No sarcasm here. I know people who have been raped too. I don't think I'm helping victims. Your assumption and raging hormones disgust me. When I say "...
It's not about censorship. It's about discrimination against women, a universal issue that has to be handled as such. Women in the U.S. are fortunate to even have a voice. And since they have one, it is only their duty to promote universal equality....
Equality Now won their case because they promote the equality of women, and Rapelay happens to discriminate against them. Although statistics are unreliable, it is a fact that women are a minority in many nations and are treated unfairly in many asp...
I'm talking about anime otaku. Yes, if you're an academic otaku, you're bound for success. However, most people who spend their time and earnings buying anime, games, and figures don't usually end up hugely successful. President Obama may enjoy comic...
I disagree about the free-speech issue because things are censored every day. YouTube censors porn. The radio censors swear words. So why are people getting so hyped up about banning a (generally craptastic) game that the majority of them haven't eve...
Thank you tymmur. You make a really good argument. It brings me joy and relief that you see the real issue at hand rather than the ridiculous notion of freedom of speech.
You're missing the main reason why they banned the game in the first place then. It's not about the level of rape occurrences. It's about discrimination against a minority. Sorry I'm repeating myself.
Ugh, it's not about crime rates and censorship. It's about discrimination. Women are commonly discriminated against in Japan. That you can't argue. The fact that Rapelay was even made and distributed originally furthers that idea. See my replies be...
It's not a free-speech issue. It's discrimination. If a game featured white Americans killing only blacks, it would be banned right away. So how some a game featuring discrimination against women (in the form of rape on top of that) should not be ba...
