Feminists Force Ban of “RapeLay”
- Categories: Games, News
- Date: May 11, 2009 04:52 JST
- Tags: Amazon, Censorship, Eroge, Feminism, Lolicon, Mass Media, Rape, USA
The anti-free speech feminist group “Equality Now” has apparently succeeded in forcing the publisher of “rape simulator” game RapeLay into withdrawing the game from sale, as the game has quietly disappeared completely from the publisher’s homepage, and the pages of most retailers.
Equality Now, an anti-porn feminist group which organises its busybody members into campaigns of letter writing harassment intent on forcing officials into compliance, recently called for adult games featuring “violence against women and girls” to be banned (although tellingly they cited research from an explicitly “anti-pornography” group, rather suggesting their real aims are somewhat broader), after learning of Amazon’s recent bungling.
The game’s publisher, Illusion, previously told the group to mind their own business as the game was solely for the Japanese market, and quite legal there.
However, after the do-nothing group’s shrill call for a ban was published, mass media outlets hungry for Japan-bashing fare picked up the story.
Strangely, none of the reports mentioned the fact that “violence against women” is almost twenty times more common in the US than it is in rape simulator world leader Japan, instead choosing to uncritically repeat the tired calumny that Japan is a rigid patriarchy in which women languish as practical chattel.
This media attention seems to have tipped the balance somewhere, for at the time of writing, no mention of the game is to be found on Illusion’s pages. Prominent English language disclaimers remind international fans that their products are for use in Japan only.
With no statement from Illusion, and no other information, the reasoning behind the utterly craven and reprehensible abandonment of free speech is not clear.
Harder BDSM-centric titles are not a speciality of Illusion, so their other titles are mostly not along these lines. However, they are still stocking their “Battle Raper” series, which involves beating female opponents into sexual submission in a 3D fighting game interspersed with sex scenes. The demo is available here.
You can read about the specific complaints made by Equality Now in the previous article, and if you are of a mind you can contact them from their page.
This behaviour sets a disturbing precedent; there are many more extreme titles than RapeLay available in Japan, encompassing everything from AV to ero-manga; if publishers are willing to fold at the slightest breeze of criticism from a group which is not even Japanese, and from complaints without any legal weight whatsoever, it would appear their future is in doubt, as displays of weakness will only encourage further feminist aggression.
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feminisit 1 - the world 0
You may shoot me now.
I'm not gonna shoot you, I'm gonna hack that fucking damned stupid feminist shithole till they mind their own politically-correct business.
SOMEONE HACK THOSE BITCHES!! http://www.equalitynow.org
They force their ideals on others by harassing them with emails and letters; if its so bad, don't buy it, go do something of profit and complain to the tobacco company or something worse.
Yes please! Even MikeUSA is welcome to do something on their site! Anon didn't expect to encourage MikeUSA even once!
can we LOIC the fuck outta them now?
prz?
/chanspeak
Know,this Annon we may have lost the battle,not the war....
Correction...
Feminazis: 1
World: -3
Feminists took out a game with just threats (F+1). This shows that free speech is moot in the face of feminazis even overseas (W-1), men are slowly losing their rights to masturbate (W-1) and people actually listen to those brainless things that have pussies lined with sharp teeth (W-1).
As feminists, they should appreciate every person's right to indulge sexual fantasies where nobody gets hurt (like in the arena of a video game), since sexual suppression was used against woman as a weapon for so long.
They're just shrieking harpies, soccer mom's with email addresses. I'm a feminist, and I want to punch them in the face for being such nazis.
I get off on porn too, this shit pisses me off.
stupid fempenis
i raep you
you know they are probably all fat and ugly
Totally. Just like all otaku are fat and ugly and resort to playing rape games because they're terrified of actual women.
actually, at the moment it's more like:
feminists: 567 - the world: 0
"Equality Now", what a fucking joke.
Feminists got to handguns, too, you know? So, NOW, all we can offer is 567 counts of dildo-raep =))
I was wondering...if someone were to produce a male rape game would equality rights people care??and if they don't care, do they still have a right to care about games in which women are raped....
isn't that the opposite of equality...
am I right??
Your assumption here is that feminists work on logic.
Please outline these "perks" you claim women enjoy.
Do. Not. Want.
They wouldn't care, and if they were called out on it, they would make some bullshit excuse like how it's "leveling the playing field" with all the male-centric rape games.
This is feminism in a nutshell, they want women to have everything a man can have, but also keep the perks they have as women.
This I want. I don't care if you objectify my gender as long as I can objectify yours.
You say that as if they do not already exist in large quantities.
The game sorta exists already.
It's actually a reverse harem visual novel.
^ word
So it wasn't me alone that noticed the lack of outcry against more shota-esque ventures.
While that might be an inherent bias in the article, I doubt I'd find a campaign for it on Equality Now's site. Could be wrong, though.
Fair enough, shoot me 567 times.
Wait My glock's out of ammo let me get more!!!
*Runs to Ammunation*
Ok back...
Ok dont move...
*Click!*
ARGH fuck...
Gun Jam...
Wait....
OMG...
Oh fuck it...
Call out the Strike Witches~~
Why is there Anti-free speech groups?
Taking away free speech is like taking away the human-part of them.
Three pistol shots and one rifle shot.
Using a gatling would make the process much faster.
Shoot me with Mio moe cannon. I'll let you use Mikuru beam in case u ran out...
But it would be difficult to keep count, won't it?
I mean, it's not like Gatlings are accurate...
would you like it to be Handgun rounds, Rifle Rounds, Gattling or MBT Rounds. if so what type :P
Man, obviously, you must shoot him with the loli launcher.
Besides, they're hideously expensive to maintain.
just make him bite a grenade and pull the pin.. that should be close enough to the end result desired..
Use a minigun or a chaos grenade, loaded with loli pans....
We all need to take a stand and make sure everyone knows the real statistics! Japan is a safer place for children than the U.S.!!!!!!!!!!
Anti porn people will try anything to accomplish their goals. And sadly, women are easy to trick into believing their false claims. They'll tell them porn leads to rape, even though it's been statistically proven to reduce it.
Also look at this site:
http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/cri_rap_percap-crime-rapes-per-capita
United States - 8th most rapes per capita
Japan - 54th most rapes per capita
Take away the countries that aren't 1st world or arab/muslim (since they could harbor many people who don't completely condone rape of woman, especially of your own wife/wives), and the then the list makes much more sense. You have to consider the amount for each country that doesn't get reported, remember. But countries like USA, Japan, Canada, Sweden, etc, you'd expect most cases get reported.
As for Canada, we're pretty much like America when it comes to sexuality. Remember Canada was one of the first places to ban lolicon material. Maybe quebec is a little more open, but not the rest of Canada.
Saudi Arabia have the less reap?! Are you shitting me?! Those datas are false!
Australia & Canada have most rapes than the US?! Anon didn't know it!
You better hide those facts or the feminist groups will find you and make you eat them to keep all traces of truth from their witch hunt.
Funny, the extreme right hates freedom of speech because it causes people to think (and maybe question the sanctity of our lord Jesus Christ). The extreme left hates freedom of speech because it interferes with their singleminded, misaimed agendas.
And in America, why settle for one, when you can have BOTH! Yay for my country!
People in America telling Japan how to reduce reap is like a 1200 pound guy telling someone his weight loss secrets.
Everyone who would shoot you, would be a murder.
Why don't they ban Yaoi games, it's because feminists play those games when they're bored. It's what keeps their mouth shut. And when they're done hell breakes loose.
Anonymous isn't human silly.
This calls for a RapeLay marathon. Everyone! Play RapeLay until you can't fap no more!!
Banning Rapelay? Then why don't they ban yaoi games as well!
! ! ! [Raping Them] ! ! !
Here is their youtube channel, they didn’t block comments
http://www.youtube.com/user/equalitynowyt
COMMENT AND RATE ALL VIDEOS 1 STAR.
I was just about to suggest this myself.
I am incline to agree!
Oh!
oh?
When people get killed, they die.
No, thats where the first quote came from, silly anon.
Shoot her to death, without killing her
I saw what you did there.
I guess they could do like they do in One Peice, and shoot them to death without killing them.
Didn't you watch Dragon Ball? Even if you died, you'd probably come back to life.
What about in Yami to Boushi to Hon no Tabibito, where you wont die, even when you are killed?
Don't you watch Bleach? Even if you got killed, you probably wouldn't die.
OH!!
you guys 're forgetting Shirou Emiya, the Master of Obvious, and the very man who said that legendary quote!
Who cares? bottom line is the feminists won.. .the world is screwed....
This is all bullshit in my opinion, they need their eyes washed with soap - it's not the game promoting rape at the end of the day, people would only buy it for the H, not for the concept of rape. It annoys me because it's the exact same as GTA, except rock star and such are to heavy mainstream to be fucked with, so it annoys me that they target smaller companies. Again this is just an American bias point of view as well, obviously murder is worse than rape, arguably on par possibly, and yet GTA can promote murder being able to randomly select a person and brutally kill them with a baseball bat, but rape lay can't base a game on rape. Everyone knows they don't want to promote rape, heck Japan has a far lower criminal rate than most countries put together. They expect people to go out an copy this shit, why not ban GTA? (Fact because they can't due to lack of power) which in itself deems the whole theory bias and questionable anyway. It's a fucking game, any news that we get of people that are copying the stuff clearly have a screw loose anyway. Oh lets not forget rape lay is about 3 years old, feminist catches wind of it just now and decide to act on it? Yet another utterly ridiculous thing to do, what happened to the last 3 years didn't have a problem with it then?.. Lets not forget the fact that rape is in fact classed as violence not sex, but violence is perfectly ok it seems, with games such as GTA. I am not saying rape is good, heck i find it a total turn-off in doujins and H games anyway. The thing that they don't realise is with one promotion there is always the opposite because i can think of any number of games such as school days of Fate/stay night that clearly show rape as a bad thing the point is they are fiction and any sane person knows the difference, and it seems like they are implying that Japan now promotes rape as a whole. It's like the concept of having good and evil in the world, if we just have good, how people would know the difference... I just think ok i can see the feminist’s point of view, but one they chose the utterly wrong time to take action (3 years after the games release) and two as far as i can tell they chose the wrong reasons to do it as well.
I agree with your wall of text what ever it says @_@
soon they will forcefully remove girls from fighting games, I can see it now.. "Yay she hit him, OMG! he hit her back, HE HIT HER BACK!!! THIS IS WOMEN ABUSE!!"
lol'd.
but yeah this feminists concepts have gotten to the point where they want to be better than males in some aspects.
Lol your wrong they have been spear heading the fuck out of rockstar for years - for all its games - they just buy the best lawyers and win most of the cases
Exactly... Didn't get them anywhere though, because of lack of power (in this case lawyers) thats my point exactly