Comments on: It's Not "Just A Game" http://www.randombabble.com/2008/07/23/its-not-just-a-game/ exactly that Sun, 27 Nov 2011 19:32:57 +0000 hourly 1 By: ouyangdan http://www.randombabble.com/2008/07/23/its-not-just-a-game/#comment-922 ouyangdan Thu, 24 Jul 2008 22:49:26 +0000 http://randombitchez.wordpress.com/?p=516#comment-922 I tell that story where you told the little kid to "make sure you kill the hooker after you have sex w/ her" to make a point to his mother all the time. I think it is highly triggering and extremely misogynistic to make a game that has that as a feature. I love that you did that. I am no Tipper Gore, and I don't think that games make kids evil, but I do think that there is serious harm in making a "game" out of actual hurtful and horrific things. This girl dying is an example...it makes me sick that we think it is OK to make light of a person's weight w/o regard to their feelings. We are dealing w/ real people w/ real feelings, not a big fat lump of shit that is worthy only of being kicked around. I reserve no sympathy for fat shamers, even the ones who are "ZOMG but what about her poor heart!!!1!" crowd. To me it is the same as hate directed at trans* people, or any other group of people that face constant hate and shame. My heart aches for that girl, b/c I know where she must have been in her head to take such a drastic step, and I hope that jerk off thinks long and hard about how cruel and hurtful words can be. I tell that story where you told the little kid to “make sure you kill the hooker after you have sex w/ her” to make a point to his mother all the time. I think it is highly triggering and extremely misogynistic to make a game that has that as a feature. I love that you did that. I am no Tipper Gore, and I don’t think that games make kids evil, but I do think that there is serious harm in making a “game” out of actual hurtful and horrific things.

This girl dying is an example…it makes me sick that we think it is OK to make light of a person’s weight w/o regard to their feelings. We are dealing w/ real people w/ real feelings, not a big fat lump of shit that is worthy only of being kicked around. I reserve no sympathy for fat shamers, even the ones who are “ZOMG but what about her poor heart!!!1!” crowd. To me it is the same as hate directed at trans* people, or any other group of people that face constant hate and shame.

My heart aches for that girl, b/c I know where she must have been in her head to take such a drastic step, and I hope that jerk off thinks long and hard about how cruel and hurtful words can be.

]]> By: K8 http://www.randombabble.com/2008/07/23/its-not-just-a-game/#comment-921 K8 Thu, 24 Jul 2008 20:20:05 +0000 http://randombitchez.wordpress.com/?p=516#comment-921 I was listening to the radio on my way home from work a few weeks ago. They had on a guest for "group therapy" and the caller was coming up to his 10-yr HS reunion. He'd recently heard that an overweight girl that he'd repeatedly teased and made fun of to the point of tears on many occasions, had died on the table while having Gastric Bypass surgery. To borrow from you, OD, Words Mean Things. Games mean things too. It's not okay for an 11-y-o to play GTA and shoot people and have sex w/hookers, and it's not okay for people to make fun of fat people. In many instances, it's as much a disability as blindness or missing a limb. I was listening to the radio on my way home from work a few weeks ago. They had on a guest for “group therapy” and the caller was coming up to his 10-yr HS reunion. He’d recently heard that an overweight girl that he’d repeatedly teased and made fun of to the point of tears on many occasions, had died on the table while having Gastric Bypass surgery.

To borrow from you, OD, Words Mean Things. Games mean things too. It’s not okay for an 11-y-o to play GTA and shoot people and have sex w/hookers, and it’s not okay for people to make fun of fat people. In many instances, it’s as much a disability as blindness or missing a limb.

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