Women in Games calls on Steam to remove game which promotes sexual assault

Weirdly enough such games are often bought by women themselves. Women seen to prefer media that has violence against women in it( not all women, ofcourse). For example, most consumers of redo of the healer manga and anime( which has extreme violence against women, including brainwashing, rape, assault, etc) were females.

Edit: Not most consumers. Rather, the anime had "higher than average" female viewship compared to other animes.

My bad. Also, it seems that the author itself, is female.
 
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consoul said:
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I was there
 
Game is pretty gross in its description but it's just a fetish game. Same way Fifty Shades of Grey was a fetish movie/book series for desperate horny women. And guess what,that garbage was a worlwide phenomenon because of that exact demographic.

I've known women in the past who were very into bdsm and softcore "rape" type shit that told me stories they were into that make this game look like a lovestory lol.

Some people are just into weird shit and that's just how things are,putting a veil on this shit won't suddenly stop these people from being weird.

The notion that a game,movie or book influences the psyche of a "normal" individual to the degree it turns them into rapists,murderers etc. Is laughable.

Healthy people know to differentiate between reality and fantasy when consuming media. People affected by media to that degree already have deep mental issues that won't be resolved by taking that media away from them but only by taking care of the root issue...the mental illness.

So blaming and censoring adult games,movies or books for what any individual does in real life won't change absolutely shit about the state of the world as much as people like the ones from Women in Games like to think otherwise,an obsession which is a mental illness in and of itself.
 
avalonzero said:
No one has problems with movies dealing with this subject matter so there shouldn't be this faux outrage when games have them either. Just put the proper ratings and warnings on it and move along.
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My state blocks those kind of movie sites.
 
The game is obviously in poor taste, but does really cross the line? I don't know. I think people have a right to be able to enjoy their kinks in a virtual environment where nobody is being affected. The idea that is "promotes misogyny" is pretty dangerous thinking.

That said, I wouldn't be opposed to Steam just removing Adult content entirely, since it *does* feel kind of strange to have it on the platform.
 
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The game is an adult visual novel with "a huge focus on incest and male domination", where players have to respond to their mother's affair by "claiming her for yourself".

Its Steam description tells players they have to "own her", and then "become every woman's worst nightmare" and "leave no p*ssy non-f*cked, since that's the only thing they all want – never take 'no' for an answer".

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The game's Steam page, which also includes a screenshot of a woman with a hand clenched around her throat, says it "graphically contains sex and violence, mature language, nudity, graphic depictions of oral, vaginal, and other sexual activities" and "includes incest, blackmail, unavoidable non-consensual sex, as well as the use of drugs, alcohol and cigarettes."

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Women in Games CEO Dr Marie-Claire Isaaman has called on Valve to "act urgently" and remove the game from Steam, saying the game's content "is not only vile and dangerous, but also actively promotes the dehumanisation of women and girls."

"The fact that a game like this is available on Steam — one of the world's largest gaming platforms — is utterly unacceptable," she added. "It sends a clear and distressing message: that violence against women is not only tolerable, but playable. That message has no place in our industry, our communities, or our society."

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I am okay with the removal of that trash from the platform.
 
I don't think it should be banned. It's unbelievably messed up shit though.

No offense to anyone into their mom.
 
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Maybe keep it in the porn section because you know we all have to scroll through this shit on porn sites.
 
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San Dan Glokta said:
Absolutely true; for every one game that exists like this for the male market there exists 1000 smut novels with most vile disgusting shit being done that makes this game looks tame in comparison that women read ravenously and masturbate to.

Fucking gynocentric hypocrisy. Let's crack down on those first yeah?
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Pretty much, the last time I went into a Barnes & Noble there was a whole section for that kink-centric stuff, often enough with a guy having some bestial features. They were in the same section that used to have all the books that looked like Twilight with the black cover and some flower in the middle were. As male readership has shrunk, those novels for women as a market has grown, and book businesses will cater to it.

This being a game for a niche male kink though, that will ruin culture and lead to real violence against women...the horror! If games do keep pushing into weird subject matter though, either Steam's rules will need more clarity, or they have some stronger rating that a user has to check-box on to see the content. I filter out visual novels and walking sims entirely in my Steam window.
 
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I don't love these kind of games but censorship isn't acceptable. How about these women have a chat with their boyfriends and sons instead if they feel this is a problem? Let other people practice freedom of choice.
 
Durin said:
Pretty much, the last time I went into a Barnes & Noble there was a whole section for that kink-centric stuff, often enough with a guy having some bestial features. They were in the same section that used to have all the books that looked like Twilight with the black cover and some flower in the middle were. As male readership has shrunk, those novels for women as a market has grown, and book businesses will cater to it.

This being a game for a niche male kink though, that will ruin culture and lead to real violence against women...the horror! If games do keep pushing into weird subject matter though, either Steam's rules will need more clarity, or they have some stronger rating that a user has to check-box on to see the content. I filter out visual novels and walking sims entirely in my Steam window.
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Male readership is alive and well, we've just shifted to independent authors or older stuff because we don't want this gay shit propaganda from publishing houses polluting our eyes and minds. I've neigh completely stopped reading anything traditionally published anymore since 2016 for this reason.
 
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Yeah I'd say it's a pretty shitty game that crosses lines.
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Agreed and probably why it will never be randomly discovered on Steam unless you go looking for it or for a specific genre.

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On the other side this probably will increase sells when otherwise no one would have known about this " game "
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I would definitely have not known about this "game" had i not seen this post on GAF. That women's group could have just written to Steam in private and asked them to suppress the game. But you tell the press about something like this and you're giving it free publicity which it should not be getting. Zero IQ move.
 
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San Dan Glokta said:
Male readership is alive and well, we've just shifted to independent authors or older stuff because we don't want this gay shit propaganda from publishing houses polluting our eyes and minds. I've neigh completely stopped reading anything traditionally published anymore since 2016 for this reason.
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Sure, but in book stores I don't see much besides manga, older books or established authors still catering to men.

More and more of the big publishers seem to have catered to women, which creates a self-fulfilling prophecy that less men buy their books, so they cater even less over time, and not many self-published things get physical releases in my nearest Barnes & Noble (other than some stuff in their Nook ereader section).
 
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Sure, but in book stores I don't see much besides manga, older books or established authors still catering to men.

More and more of the big publishers seem to have catered to women, which creates a self-fulfilling prophecy that less men buy their books, so they cater even less over time, and not many self-published things get physical releases in my nearest Barnes & Noble (other than some stuff in their Nook ereader section).
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Go to amazon and see recommendations based on your favorites, or youtube review channel or even goodreads, find good reviews, and then buy the e-book directly from the author's website. Thats how I do it.

And sure I only go to bookstores now to pickup older stuff; don't look at the newer sections anymore. Also I don't read manga/comics so yeah the reasons for me to go are decreasing...
 
A bit disturbing to see some people defending censorship of this. If you are pro creative freedom, it's exactly to protect the expression of unpopular thoughts and ideas. It's the recognition that no matter how bad or distasteful a piece of art is, it has the right to exist.

Either you agree with this or you are pro censorship and thought policing, that's it, no excuses.

As far as I understood it's flagged for adults, made by adults, so adults are free to play it or not. Don't recognize anyone's right to force another adult to not play whatever videogame, read whatever book, watch whatever movie (etc...) he wants to watch.
 
Well, this ain't my cup of tea, but if that's what folks wanna spend their money on, I don't see the problem. It's no different than watching a movie that has this weird shit in it, lol.
 
There's a lot of stuff, I don't like. You know what I do? I ignore it, instead of asking it to be banned. Also, Steam is a private company, they can choose what can be sold on their platform.

Just another rabble rouser or shit stirrer is this woman, another one of those outrage grifters.
 
I know better than to comment on censorship in games on an internet platform, but I will say this much: it's a pretty gross and weird game, and I would view people who actively like and seek out such games very differently
 
I mean, not my cup of tea, but I'm somewhat surprised that women are complaining about it (more specifically a certain subset of women), because "forceful, dominant man that borders into rapist" is one of the most recurring and popular themes in any erotic fiction targeted at women.
50 shades of gray and tons of other similar shit didn't sell gangbuster for no reason.
 
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