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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: 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.