While we often make light of reactions to RapeLay from the media and politicians, the recent reemergence of the game into the spotlight has caused a 14-year old victim of sexual assault to come out and publicly denounce the title.
Well-meaning teen Elena Lyons contacted Charleston, South Carolina’s News 2 in order to voice her concerns over the game, saying, “This game is wrong. It needs to be stopped. No game like this should ever be put out there. Rape is not a joke. People seem to think that it is. They don’t take it seriously, but rape isn’t a joke. It is very hurtful.”
Lyons, who says she was sexually assaulted by a non-family member at age eight, has started an online petition against the game and is organizing a walk that she hopes will stop the game.
Unfortunately, short of destroying all the tubes that comprise the Internet, there’s not much that can be done about the availability of RapeLay, perhaps someone should have told Lyons that.
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RapeLay Coverage Hits Home for Teen Girl
April 23, 2010
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Sleaker: @PHX Corp, I can't take a person seriously that is less frightened at the possibility of privacy issues, and more scared about controller feedback technology05/25/2013 - 11:35am
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PHX Corp: http://www.unwinnable.com/2013/05/24/trigger-warning/ Trigger Warning05/25/2013 - 6:37am
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beemoh: Unless that pic of a Kinect taped to the underside of a phone is a joke05/25/2013 - 1:58am
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beemoh: Kinect being used in prototype to stop people walking into people while texting: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-2263173105/25/2013 - 1:57am
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Cecil475: @hellfire7885 - Makes me want to support Nintendo even more.05/24/2013 - 4:49pm
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hellfire7885: Man, EA seems to be determined to destroy the Wii U ,and the evidently are so arrogant as to believe not making games for it will do that.05/24/2013 - 4:45pm
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DorthLous: Pwahahahha http://www.destructoid.com/wii-u-sales-drastically-spike-after-xbox-one-presentation-254449.phtml#LlG8HEYbQj2krql5.0105/24/2013 - 2:23pm
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james_fudge: she gets no credit until she employs some common sense. - 2 credits for her.05/24/2013 - 11:22am
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Andrew Eisen: To Stender's credit, she did unmoderate my most recent comment within a day's time. There's even a couple other replies. None from her though.05/24/2013 - 11:18am
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james_fudge: apparently gamers are all 14 - 21 years-olds living in basements according to her way of thinking...05/24/2013 - 11:11am
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ZippyDSMlee: EZK: 0_o thier video card chipset is at the very least 3 versions behind the top PC video card.......05/24/2013 - 7:38am
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MechaTama31: "You just wouldn't understand how my parenting preferences are more important than everybody else's freedoms."05/24/2013 - 7:37am
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DorthLous: I love how she plays the "I'm a parent, you're a gamer, you couldn't understand" card... I'm a parent and I find her position despicable...05/23/2013 - 4:16pm
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E. Zachary Knight: She didn't address your questions because she doesn't have any answers.05/23/2013 - 3:38pm
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Andrew Eisen: I replied to her comment. Maybe in a few weeks I'll get a reply.05/23/2013 - 3:24pm
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Thomas Riordan: @Andrew Eisen To what bowling alley does she go that puts sexual images in the faces of 6 year olds?05/23/2013 - 3:17pm
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Andrew Eisen: Well, it took a month but Linda Stender finally replied to me... and didn't address a single one of my questions. http://aswlindastender.com/2013/04/23/follow-up-video-games-and-their-effect-on-children/05/23/2013 - 3:13pm
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Imautobot: Also, from a tech perspective the PS4 is apparently already winning. http://bgr.com/2013/05/22/xbox-one-vs-playstation-4-specs/05/23/2013 - 3:12pm
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Imautobot: Sony's PS4 motto should be "We play games." Microsoft's should be "We play games, when we're not rewinding your tapes."05/23/2013 - 3:11pm
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Andrew Eisen: Oh look, Dying Light was just announced For Everything But Wii U. That's 73.05/23/2013 - 2:06pm
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Comments
Re: RapeLay Coverage Hits Home for Teen Girl
Since the chances of her attackers having played a game like this are so remote even a bloodhound couldn't find it, blaming the game is indeed silly, since most games of that nature are NEVER released in the states.
Re: RapeLay Coverage Hits Home for Teen Girl
That one is a victim is never an excuse to try to hurt others.
Looks like this girl has found a socially acceptable way to do the 'abuse victim becomes an abuser' pattern.
Re: RapeLay Coverage Hits Home for Teen Girl
Preventing people from playing a game is hardly comparable to being raped. Gamers aren't being "raped" over a "ban" for this game.
I don't consider this revenge either, she is trying to stop the promotion of rape. I see similar well-meaning campaigns all the time in the UK. Family members of a murder victim look for a cause for the murder and start campaigns to prevent the causes, thus trying to prevent further murder and many other examples. I've seen attempts to ban games (the Manhunt fiasco), car speeding, pornography, etc. They are all well-meaning campaigns that are not based on revenge but on further prevention.
Regardless this game was never available in the US (or anywhere else outside of Japan), one seller on Amazon had it, but that was all. The game is self censored due to its availability, I pretty much consider the game banned in all but name.
Re: RapeLay Coverage Hits Home for Teen Girl
Family members of a murder victim look for a cause for the murder and start campaigns to prevent the causes, thus trying to prevent further murder and many other examples. I've seen attempts to ban games (the Manhunt fiasco), car speeding, pornography, etc. They are all well-meaning campaigns that are not based on revenge but on further prevention.
Then, with all due respect to the families of the victims, they are wasting their time and strength wanting to ban porn or games as cause of crimes. It won´t work ever, even if they succeded.
Blaming a work of fiction or a product for a real life tragedy is irresponsable and delusional and that doesn´t get justice for nobody.
People have to understand that to prevent crime or tragedies they have to take the problems directly. But as always, is always more easy (and profitable) to shift the blame to an inanimated object.
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