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Valve says it won't publish game about raping women, after 'significant discussion'
Valve has at last responded to a mounting controversy concerning an indie game designed entirely around the violent sexual assault of women. The statement, posted to the Steam Blog earlier today, makes clear that Valve will in fact not distribute the visual novel, which was called Rape Day and scheduled for release in April through the company's Steam Direct distribution channel. The declaration marks a quizzical few days of silence from the video game developer and marketplace owner, which has taken varying, occasionally radical stances to moderation on Steam in the past few years.
In a policy change announced last year, Valve said it would let basically anything onto the platform so long as it was not illegal or very obviously trolling to illicit negative reactions from the general public. So far, the only category to meet that definition included visual novels and other games featuring the sexual exploitation of children, which Valve banned last December. In this case, Valve says Rape Day posed "unknown costs and risks," without clarifying which rule it broke.
Developer's website. Also at Ars Technica, Business Insider, and Kotaku.
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(Score: 2) by takyon on Thursday March 07 2019, @11:01PM (6 children)
I think you know what "eviscerated" means.
In other words, she was raped and then murdered/slaughtered (dying directly of injuries from the attack).
A rape alone isn't likely to cause someone to become eviscerated [wikipedia.org], especially if there are up to 6 people restraining the victim. Beating someone repeatedly with a rusty iron implement can, though.
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(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Thursday March 07 2019, @11:18PM (5 children)
In this case, she was raped repeatedly by all five men, which apparently caused some internal injury. As a finale, she was raped with a piece of pipe. She wasn't "eviscerated" in the sense that she was gutted (think deer hunting), but the pipe was forced into her vagina, and forcefully manipulated to cause as much pain as possible. The woman was brutally tortured with that pipe, causing a lot of internal damage, internal bleeding, and infection. It took a month for her to die. In comparison, it would have been a blessing if the sons of bitches had used a sharp knife and gutted her straight out.
IMO, the only fitting punishment would be to pipe-rape all five of the men who participated. Use a nice rusty, pitted, jagged pipe, be careful not to actually kill them, then throw their asses into a rain gutter.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Thursday March 07 2019, @11:30PM (4 children)
Article says she was transferred to a hospital in Singapore 11 days after the attack, and died 2 days later.
Rape isn't a form of murder. People can be raped without significant injury, especially if alcohol and other drugs were involved. Or if you have 6 likely physically stronger men pinning down the victim. Remove the piece of iron and sheer brutality from the equation, and she may have lived. But her attackers committed a crime beyond rape. In fact, they were planning to off her right then and there by driving the bus over her (i.e. not just leaving her with critical but potentially survivable injuries), but she was pulled away before that could happen.
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(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Thursday March 07 2019, @11:55PM (3 children)
I don't see two crimes here. They didn't commit a simple rape, then cause the woman's death as a separate act. It was all one act, with a pretty simple theme: to humiliate, denigrate, and debase a woman, in the process causing as much torturous pain as possible, and ultimately her death. Rape is almost always about violence, and violence taken far enough is indeed murder.
Yes, people can be raped without being injured. (Here, feminists do themselves a disservice, since you mention alcohol. The chick who goes out, gets drunk, then goes home with a guy has not been "raped" just because she regrets it the next morning.) Any injury, and the degree of injury, is entirely dependent on the rapist's need to "punish" the victim. Rape is all about violence, and the imposition of a man's will on his victim.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 08 2019, @12:58AM (2 children)
At first I thought you were just another clueless feminist claiming that rape was never about sex. But really, you are redefining rape as violent assault in the genital region.
So if that is your new definition of rape, what do you call forced non-consensual sex?
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday March 08 2019, @01:12AM (1 child)
"forced non-consensual sex". What do you call the use of force, if not violence? You seem to misunderstand me. The degree of force and violence is what separates a "simple" rape, from a barbaric assault.
No, I'm not a feminist. Some of those whackos go so far as to define ALL sexual relations as violent.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 08 2019, @03:56AM
I would say that rape is almost always about sex, and is carried out by people who have no consideration of the other's agency. Whether that is sociopathic criminals or desensitized soldiers in wartime, the vast majority of rape basically comes down to "I want to fuck and I don't care what you want".
The feminist argument that it is always about the subjugation of women is ideological bullshit. It is about the basic male desire to stick their dicks in things coupled with a lack of empathy. The psycho who carves up women to prove his superiority is a small minority of rape despite the media propaganda.