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The actual point of the quote ( RapeLay) is, I think, just to sort of shock the reader. Maybe I'm not just used to it, but it still feels a bit wild west in that nobody quite does it in the same way and the snippets, taken out of their web context, read weird on the printed page. It's still surprising to me to find books that cite non-academic, media-centric pop culture sites.

Rapelay play rl don't work series#

The introduction starts out with a quote from 'a 2007 game review on SomethingAwful, a comedy website that profiles horrifying geek media' - which is maybe missing the point a little, considering SA had that whole 'Horrors of Porn' series out there for a while. I can't say I've read anything of hers, but I also can't say I haven't because Jezebel is one of the few GawkerMedia sites not blocked at work and things get slow sometimes. She has her own website, but I'll let you find it. The writer is Clarisse Thorn, one of the editors, whose little bio-piece here let's us know that she's a feminist S&M writer who has worked for both traditional print journalism and Jezebel.

Okay, the title isn't really making me look forward to this, but let's see where is goes. ~ Marcus Brigstocke Introduction: Reflections on Game Rape, Feminism, Sadomasochism, And Selfhood If Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in dark rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive electronic music. Unlike real academics, they have no real analytic tools at their disposal, and mistake anecdotes and generalized statements for serious grown-up talk about sex and gaming. Until now, I haven't seen a comparable effort for gaming - Confessions of a Part-Time Sorceress andĮverything I Need to Know I Learned from Dungeons & Dra gons: One Woman's Quest to Trade Self-Help for Elf-Help by Shelly Mazzanoble are rather twee works where Shelly seems to assume that having a pair of ovaries is a good substitute for a set of brains, and Sex, Dice, and Gamer Chicks by Johnny Nexus and James Desborough is rather more of the same - these people, having been in the gaming scene for years and with some talent for writing, assume that they have something worthwhile to say on the subject, but mostly they just offer some rather stale observations and anecdotes.

Rapelay play rl don't work full#

Lovecraft and Sexual Ideology in the Works of Alan Moore, both books that have their vital fluid pumping organ in about the right place, but both of which are also rather off the mark and full of shit that people wrote to get published with trendy buzzwords rather than have any sort of deep insight or do the fucking research. So we get things like New Critical Essays on H. It's a weird mix because I don't think the people that want to talk about these things like grown-ups have quite gotten over the mindset of treating their material as, well, just another book or body of literature. That's really really recent, especially anything that goes into analysis, theory, or philosophy instead of straight histories and biographies. One of the things that's relatively new is the academic interest in pop culture.

After all, we're the generation where toys went from 'he'll grow out of those' to Todd McFarlane museum-quality collectibles, and animation-ghetto Saturday morning cartoons are being re-released on slick-covered DVDs to cater to the grown-up market. It's why you don't see six-year olds hawking newspapers and smoking cigarettes on the streets of New York City today, and more than a little it's been responsible for the very unusual trend of pop culture being age-categorized, and eventually growing up or being rediscovered to respectability. Someone once observed that the idea of being a teenager is a relatively recent concept an idea that was born out of the increasing prosperity of the Western world, and more than a little by the creation of a new popular culture that catered to the market of moneyed teenagers.