[ SECRET POST #2147 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2147 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Violent video games are criticized because the assumed audience -- young boys and men -- apparently need to be protected from them and are too stupid to tell the difference between fantasy and reality.

I don't think it's a matter of sexism, just a matter of awful taste.

[(Anonymous)]

Again, it's not that they're stupid - it's that they, for the most part, have no other background with either healthy relationships (if we're talking teens and Twlight) or BDSM (if we're talking... well, quite a lot of people and 50 Shades). Following your analogy, it's as though someone's first exposure to New York was Grand Theft Auto. It is ridiculous? Yeah. Is it wrong? Yeah, and anyone who knows anything else about New York could tell you that. And obviously more people have access to information about New York, and it's not like New York is taboo. But it's basically what's happening, especially with 50 Shades.

[(Anonymous)]

I...think we agree? I was just trying to draw attention to the above anon's weird statement ("[I'm annoyed by] the whole attitude that girls and women need to be protected from these dangerous books and are too stupid to tell the difference between fantasy and reality").

The OP of this thread is trying to argue that some criticism of Twilight and 50 Shades of Gray is based in wanting to repress young women from acting out their desires, and thus is sexist; this kind of attitude is leveraged against young men in a different context, though, so sexism most likely isn't the source of the criticism. It's the presentation of unhealthy relationships to an audience that hasn't had experience with healthy relationships yet.