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Video: TYT: Rape Culture - Do Kids Trivialize the Word "Rape" in Gaming?

Gamertag Radio writes: "Rehtaeh Parson and Audrie Pott were two teenage girls who committed suicide in separate incidents after pictures of their rapes became viral and they were mercilessly bullied by their peers. It may seem unthinkable that kids would use something as traumatic and devastating as rape to "slut shame," bully, and harass another teenager, but it obviously does happen. How did teen rape culture come about, and how could rape be treated so trivially? Cenk hypothesizes that a small portion of the blame could be due to kids casually throwing around "rape" as a verb to not mean a sexual assault, but as some form of "owning" someone, or badly beating them, say, in a video game. Is that true? Cenk Uygur, Ana Kasparian, and Ben Mankiewicz are joined by John Iadarola (TYT University) and Kim Horcher (Nerd Alert) to discuss."

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TopDudeMan4024d ago

It's just a word. What it represents is horrible, but at the end of the day people are gonna say whatever they want. The way they say it, it's clear they aren't talking about sexual assault, so I see it as no harm done.

horne2424024d ago

Kudos on commenting first. I wasn't going to touch this one with a ten foot bargepole. I think its disingenuous to kids to assume they can't differentiate between the word and the act. They can. So its all rather moot imho

3-4-54024d ago

They know better..but they don't care and they think that makes them cool by not caring.

Bakkies4024d ago

The word was trivialized by feminists, false rape accusations are encouraged these days. Brian Banks sat 10 years of his life in jail and then when the accuser admitted she lied, she wasn't even punished. The cry wolf phenomena.

If they are against rape so much, show me one feminist who lobbies against prison rape. They are even changing the definition so men cannot be raped.

cleft54024d ago

False rape allegations are indeed one of the worst things that can ever happen to a man. With that said, those false allegation make up a very small percentage of the cases so I can't agree that this is what trivializes rape.

Bakkies4024d ago

Indeed you are right, it's only a small part, it comes down to the definition of rape by the law.

If a women consents to sex, then later on says she was drunk, then she was legally raped. If a women consents to sex, then later on regrets it, it is legally rape. etc.

If a very high percentage of women says they were raped, because they were drunk one night, then it trivializes the word rape and trivializes the victims who were violently assaulted.

Rape by definition has become something that happens all the time in clubs. I don't believe any women who were violently raped can even associate with someone who had sex while drunk.

grassyknoll4024d ago

I don't know what world you live in, but convictions for rape stand at 2% in the UK (rape is in sociological analysis one of the most unreported crimes too). I'm not suggesting false rape claims don't occur, but rapist's getting away with their crimes is a far bigger phenomenon.

snarls2004024d ago

the staute of limitations probably ran out on her crime

ijust2good4024d ago (Edited 4024d ago )

I work as a project worker in a supported housing...i can tell you that i have come across afew girls who have accused other men of false rape.

The funniest one happend a few months back when this well known delusional young women cried "Rape", called the police to scheme i worked at. She was crying to the police that the man who raped her is still in her flat. The police came to the scheme and went to her flat and took the supposedly rapist out the room and handcuffed him naked. He had no idea what he had done wrong.

The police had requested to take alook at the camera after the guy had been put in the police van as they can gather up evidence..guess what they saw. They saw her making sensual gestures toward the accused rapist as she was seen on camera taking the man to her flat. She obviously felt guiltily as she just had a separation from her ex, she obviously needed some attention

She apparently had cried "Rape" before which have also been taken to court but she didn't win cause her claims were not reliable. Apparently even forensic team refused to come see her early in the morning just after the supposedly "rape incident" happened cause she was well known to them as a bullshitter.

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cleft54024d ago (Edited 4024d ago )

Rape is just a word, but it is a powerful word. That power has traditionally come from a person being sexually victimize and it shouldn't be taken lightly.

So I can understand the concern and complaints of people who don't like the word being used out of that context. At the same time, even in the gaming culture the use of the word "rape" means that you where completely destroyed and humiliated.

So it's not like the word is being changed to anything positive. Because of that I would say that the word isn't being trivialized by kids. Beyond that, you wouldn't go out in public and say: "Oh I totally got raped last night." So the power of that word still has it's original meaning only now it has some additional meaning, that isn't positive, for a different circumstance.

With that said, it shocked me when Tina Wood said on the gaming reveal for Gears of War Judgment that she got "raped" referring to playing mulitplayer matches against the developers of the game. Obviously we all know what she meant, but it was disturbing hearing her say that. Needless to say, Tina Wood is not a child.

She says this at about the 2:20 mark in the Gear War Judgment Event. This is the link to a youtube of the event http://www.youtube.com/watc... To be clear, this is not my youtube account.

IQUITN4G4024d ago (Edited 4024d ago )

The word clearly means something else in a lot of people's minds and they surely wouldn't say it if they truly knew the extent of what they were saying. The actual act of this sex crime would soon become apparent to anyone that suffers it informing them how they then use the word

The one thing as already pointed out is how it can leave people open to making very awkward tits of themselves and then of course they never use the word again in this way

I would disagree that people wouldn't publicly say the same use of the word because ignorance in the first place prevents a lot of people knowing what the word is in it's other use

Heisenburger4024d ago

It had happened to an old friend of mine. So obviously my stance on this doesn't need to be spelled out.

However it means(not the actual word) different things to different people. Calling a black person the n word is one thing, and referring to a white guy as the same doesn't mean squat.

When I hear that word(or read it for that matter) I have to push bad thoughts out of my mind. Yet some people giggle when they hear or see the word.

I just simply do not associate myself with people who find that humorous. Along with use of the n word and the c word.

I'm twenty-four years old. And anybody who is my age and still finds that stuff funny isn't somebody I can get along with.

You know what I mean. You can't change people around you. You can only change the type of people that you are around.

Hell my roommate is going on thirty-two and he can be a prick sometimes(JK!).

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Ranking the Devil May Cry Series

VGChartz's Mark Nielsen: "Upon finally finishing Devil May Cry 5 recently - after it spent several years on my “I’ll play that soon” list - I considered giving it a fittingly-named Late Look article. However, considering that this was indeed the final piece I was missing in the DMC puzzle, I decided to instead take this opportunity to take a look back at the entirety of this genre-defining series and rank the entries. What also made this a particularly tempting notion was that while most high-profile series have developed fairly evenly over time, with a few bumps on the road, the history of Devil May Cry has, at least in my eyes, been an absolute roller coaster, with everything from total disasters to action game gold."

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VersusDMC1h ago

First to last for me...3,4,5,1,2.

Friendlygamer51m ago

3,1,4,5 to me, never played 2. 5 gameplay is amazing but level design was really disappointing to me, just a bunch of plain arenas, the story felt like a worse written rehash of the 3rd and the charater models looked weird ( specially the ladies ). Another problem with 5 was that there was not enough content for 3 charaters so I could never really familiarize with any of them

monkey6025m ago(Edited 5m ago)

2.
Dmc.
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5.
1.
3.

God DMC2 was an awful game.
And in case this isn't obvious it goes worst to best

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Marvel: Ultimate Alliance Has Appeared On The Xbox Store

Activision and Raven Software's 2006 action role-playing game, Marvel: Ultimate Alliance, has found its way to the Xbox Store.

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LG_Fox_Brazil6h ago

Used to love this one, but X-Men Legends 1 and 2 will always be my favorites, especially Rise of Apocalypse. Would pay some good money to play it today with online multiplayer, back then I had no way to get a modem

ZeekQuattro5h ago

I remember buying them dirt cheap on the PS4 and then a few days later I read they were delisted. I was wondering why the bundle was price so low and got my answer when that happened.

Knightofelemia3h ago(Edited 3h ago)

Sad to say this is one game franchise next to the Xmen that needs a sequel. I use to play the hell out of Xmen Legends and Marvel Ultimate Alliance. Was great when my cousin had the OG Xbox play with four other people and then playing online. Great games glad to see it reappear even though I own the discs love the mechanics of this game.

Terry_B3h ago

It got a sequel..but for dumbass #reasons as a switch exclusive.

shinoff21833h ago

It looked so horrible to. They should've kept it similar to the first two.

Asplundh3h ago

Because Nintendo funded it, they did the same for Bayonetta.

Knightofelemia2h ago

I totally forgot about the Switch sequel.

jukins3h ago

Misleading. This page is whats available for people who owned the game prior to delisting.

Abnor_Mal2h ago

The first game was the best imo.

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Comedy Central New Animated Series Based on Golden Axe

Get the scoop on Comedy Central's exciting new cartoon show inspired by the iconic Golden Axe video game

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Knightofelemia1d 1h ago (Edited 1d 1h ago )

Golden Axe is a great game I enjoyed it on the SMS, Genesis and in the arcade. Great game but it truly was a quarter eater back in the day. I wish Sega could get the rights to the arcade port of Moonwalker another great arcade game I enjoyed. Collect so many monkeys and become Robo Michael lol.