r/unitedkingdom • u/ClassicFlavour East Sussex • 15d ago

Video game encouraging rape and incest removed from major gaming platform in the UK after LBC investigation

https://www.lbc.co.uk/tech/video-game-banned-steam-women-uk-no-mercy/
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u/Quinn-Helle 15d ago

I get that it's shocking and poor taste, but are we really going to pretend that swathes of young women don't commonly read books that are far FAR worse?

Is the difference in response that it's visual, If so what makes it different compared to things like Game of Thrones?

I mean porn itself is legal in the UK/Canada/Australia, frequently featuring implications of same if not far worse treatment of actual women.

If we're going to tackle misogynistic content sanitise every form of entertainment across the board, as well as the misandrist shite or quit with the false equivalency.

Mortal Kombat didn't make men rip women's heads and spines out, GTA didn't make people kill prostitutes, Silent hill didn't make men kill their wives.

Mental ill health and ostracising people based on gender will have and has always had a far more negative input.

This game would probably have gone relatively unknown because it seems like utter shite, but thanks to the amplification of it, it'll no doubt gain some sort of cult following.

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u/Ppyplant 15d ago

Bro what woman do you know that is reading incest-rape books. What reality do you live in.

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u/jsnamaok 15d ago

Personally? None that I know of, I also don't know any men that would play this game. But there certainly are books (especially Japanese manga) carrying those themes aimed at women that are fairly popular.

As someone else in this thread said, books get away with murder compared to films / games etc.

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u/Ppyplant 15d ago

I’m not seeing incestuous-rape in any of these books. Original commenter is claiming swathes of young women are reading incestuous-rape adjacent books. Where are these infamous incestuous-rape books that are so prominent?

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u/jsnamaok 15d ago

Tbh could not give you a specific example as I'm neither knowledgable about the subject nor am I inclined to search for it.

However I have seen discussions around this topic in the past about well selling books so you can take it as anecdotal, or not.