samatethecookie | fuck you very, very much.

It's about a week old, it might be old meme, but... ugh.

Rapelay virtual rape game banned by Amazon.

My overall feelings about this is:

1. Look, I know these sort of things happen in Japan every day, but what the flying fuck is this?! This isn't just disgusting, it's completely sexist and demeaning. The "lol it's Japan" excuse isn't funny to me anymore because the more I think about it, the more I realize it's been going on before this game. This is serious. This is the reason why feminism exists and why we need to talk about feminism in other countries. I'm not going to pretend that western culture doesn't have its share of problems, but I'm also not going to turn a blind eye to what's going on in another country.

I'm genuinely concerned about the women in Japan and why they don't have the same knee-jerk reaction to these sort of things, because this only seems to happen against women in anime, manga, hentai, and television shows, and countless others, and all of them encourage violent acts against women and the demeaning stereotypes about them. I hear about the weird shit that goes on in the country, but I almost never hear about the general negative reaction to it, if there's any at all.

Women, in general, around the world, need to take action against things like this or else it's going to continue and we're not going to make any progress towards gender equality. Men need to tag along with us, too.

2. I heard the game was over exaggerated and it's not as bad as the article makes it sound. The topic of rape is still there, though. Knowing that some of the details are exaggerated doesn't change how I feel about it or change what's wrong with it. It's still based on a topic that shouldn't have been a focus for a video game at all.

3. Now I realize why I was told to write about my vagina in my Women's Creative Performing Arts class. This makes my vagina feel like curling up in a ball and hiding from the world right now. :|