February 2012
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Conversation overheard at Gamestop
Mom: It's rated M, I just wanted to see how bad the sex is in the game.
Cashier: Well it's one of the more violent games out right now. Like chainsawing people in half and watching them get ripped apart on screen.
Mom: But no sex, right? No kissing or anything? Any language?
Cashier: No, no sex, and the language isn't anything worse than the s-word.
Mom: Okay, because it's for my five year old so I just wanted to make sure. That's fine then.
I DO NOT FUCKING UNDERSTAND ANYTHING ABOUT WHAT PEOPLE THINK IS APPROPRIATE IN THIS COUNTRY. Chainsawing people in half is fucking fine, but God forbid he should hear a dirty word or see people kiss.
I really need to understand the logic behind "Watch all the death, but no depictions of love allowed."
Nino--I think the aversion towards sex is understandable. Whereas you can tell little TImmy "You do not, under any circumstances, hit people. You do not hurt them. You don't have any place to hurt people," you can't really tell him "Okay well you should only have sex if you love someone...or at least be safe...well you should probably wait until you're married, but you probably won't, and this is a very private thing that you don't share with other people--" while they're watching it on-screen.
Violence is a pretty black-and-white concept. I don't think parents should be buying rated-M games for their kids, but...I was raised sheltered from the actual ins-and-outs-knowledge of sex (look at that ghastly pun)--you know, how it all actually works beyond being naked alone with someone--but knowing that it's a very private thing that you share with someone you care about.
Violence, on the other hand, is pretty universally shunned. Well...kind of.
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Conversation overheard at Gamestop
Mom: It's rated M, I just wanted to see how bad the sex is in the game.
Cashier: Well it's one of the more violent games out right now. Like chainsawing people in half and watching them get ripped apart on screen.
Mom: But no sex, right? No kissing or anything? Any language?
Cashier: No, no sex, and the language isn't anything worse than the s-word.
Mom: Okay, because it's for my five year old so I just wanted to make sure. That's fine then.
I DO NOT FUCKING UNDERSTAND ANYTHING ABOUT WHAT PEOPLE THINK IS APPROPRIATE IN THIS COUNTRY. Chainsawing people in half is fucking fine, but God forbid he should hear a dirty word or see people kiss.
I really need to understand the logic behind "Watch all the death, but no depictions of love allowed."
Nino--I think the aversion towards sex is understandable. Whereas you can tell little TImmy "You do not, under any circumstances, hit people. You do not hurt them. You don't have any place to hurt people," you can't really tell him "Okay well you should only have sex if you love someone...or at least be safe...well you should probably wait until you're married, but you probably won't, and this is a very private thing that you don't share with other people--" while they're watching it on-screen.
Violence is a pretty black-and-white concept. I don't think parents should be buying rated-M games for their kids, but...I was raised sheltered from the actual ins-and-outs-knowledge of sex (look at that ghastly pun)--you know, how it all actually works beyond being naked alone with someone--but knowing that it's a very private thing that you share with someone you care about.
Violence, on the other hand, is pretty universally shunned. Well...kind of.
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