According to Bitch magazine blog:
The Japanese video game Rapelay … encourages players to rape women and then force abortions upon
From Feministing:
“A game that involves the player stalking victims and then raping them in a virtual world is being offered …
…One website review describes “tears glistening in the young girl’s eyes” as she is attacked in graphic detail.
Players begin the game by stalking a mother on a subway station before violently raping her. They then move on to attack her two daughters described as virgin schoolgirls.”
It continues that if you get your victim pregnant you need to force her to have an abortion or she has a child and kills you.
Abortion as a tool to punish and victimize. Gross.
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I think that is a horrible video game, which contributes to “normailzing” violence against women and should have no part of entertainment in either here in the U.S. or abroad.
I’m all for people celebrating and practicing their particular kinks, even the ones I think are disgusting or creepy. But rape isn’t a kink, it’s a violation.
Now, consenting adults playing out a rape fantasy… that’s borderline for me, but the point is CONSENTING.
Rape is not about consent- it’s specifically the antithesis of consent. There are doubtless people who enjoy acting out the conquest of an unwilling partner, and people who enjoy acting out being an unwilling partner who is conquered- and I’d bet most of those people would be terrified to be involved in an actual rape.
Then, there are people who get off specifically because their partner is unwilling, and who enjoy the actual violation of another person’s monad. These people are evil.
The question here is, which of these people does such a game appeal to? Does it appeal to the first sort, because a computer game can be assumed to be “consenting”? Does it not appeal to the second sort, because there’s no actual person whose will is being broken?
I have no idea. All I can do is paraphrase Mickey’s sentiment, that I personally find the whole thing reprehensible and that if I find out someone I know has such a thing in their home, I will no longer feel comfortable relating to that person.