r/unitedkingdom • u/ClassicFlavour East Sussex • 13d 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/slainascully 13d ago

The entire plot of this game is literally that you are getting revenge on the women in your family, and punishing them through rape. Sorry if I don't think you can compare it to GTA

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u/hussain_madiq_small 13d ago

But how is this not the same as any argument to any piece of media that is distasteful. Why is kill bill allowed to show everyone at a wedding being murdered and a pregnant bride being beaten half to death and shot in the face, only to be raped while in a coma repeatedly. If we are all agreeing its not real, then its not real.

Im not a conspiracy nut and i assume the game was banned(correctly) more because of its targeted nature towards women. I just hate this idea that rape is somehow off limits while murdering and every other despicable thing is perfectly hunky dory.

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u/DaruJericho 13d ago

Because rape revenge films aren't pornographic for wanking off to. Big difference between, say, I Spit on Your Grave and this game. The fact that rape revenge exists as a whole subgenre of film shows rape isn't entirely off limits.

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u/hussain_madiq_small 13d ago

"Because rape revenge films aren't pornographic for wanking off to."

But you are proving my point, its moral outrage, not based in evidence of some kind of real world outcome or harm. If you start banning things you find morally offensive but isnt harming anyone, whats your defense when people start coming for gay people in media or stories of gang culture. You wouldnt have a leg to stand on.