Feminists Force Ban of “RapeLay”
- Categories: Games, News
- Date: May 11, 2009 04:52 JST
- Tags: Amazon, Censorship, Eroge, Feminism, Lolicon, Mass Media, Raep, 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.
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
I'm not gonna shoot you, I'm gonna hack that fucking damned stupid feminist shithole till they mind their own politically-correct business.
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.
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.
This I want. I don't care if you objectify my gender as long as I can objectify yours.
^ 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
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.
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.
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
How possible is it to get pirated?
Oh look, lots of hypocritical, misogynistic sexist fucks complaining about feminists when responding with a bunch of stupidity even worse than it coming from these feminists.
Makes me long for the China bashing articles again. I'd rather have those than this crap.
Idiot. Pay attention. Yeah, some people are letting anger get the better of them, but I'm mad too, and I'm a girl. And they have tons of good arguements.
1. Group focuses on something small and irrelevant. How many people would play it? There's so many people suffering, and they focus on THIS?!?
2. They might have made it worse, depending on your interpretation. Possibly supported by the WAAAY higher amount of raep in the US.
3. It's against our rights. We should be able to do what we want as long as we do no harm. What are they gonna ban next? Standard porn? Violent video games? We shouldn't start down the slippery slope.
4. I would bet that nobody who played this game has raeped a girl because of it. If they did, they were probably mentally ill inthe first place. People otaku enough to play don't go out and RAEP people, for goodness' sake.
5. Get in the kitchen and make me a sammich. You stupid fuck.
I call attention whore by the name "Otaku Girl."
I think YOU should get in the kitchen and - Oh, screw it. Just go be an hero.
She is more HERO than you'll ever be anon-san.
umm, explain please? While some people here are definitely exaggerating, getting the better of themselves, or fitting your description to the T, I really don't beleive most people here are doing anything like what you've said. Some of the people here against these feminists are even women themselves.
Also we're up to Russia "bashing" now, where have you been?
YOu guys should switch to Itazura Gokuaku, commong out 2009/05/29
The third world war is gonna happen soon!
All i can say is thankfully these irritating little bitches haven't heard of another popular game starts with B and theres 3 of them
My thought exactly, they'd probably got batshit crazy over it if they ever found about it.
New York-based Equality Now launched a campaign this week "against rape simulator games and the normalisation of sexual violence in Japan".
It urged activists to write in protest to the maker and Prime Minister Taro Aso, arguing the game breaches Japan's obligations under the 1985 Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women.
---- Isn't Taro Aso the manga otaku? he probably just throw those letter sin the bin and plays this stuff haha..
i lold
Cooly~ After this, they'll ban 3D Custom Girl for depicting girls of all ages as slaves whom you can force to do fetish cosplay, strip, pose, and have sex with..
Blame Canada~
Sadly, I'm not as offended by that as I used to....
If a man talks dirty to a woman, it's considered sexual harassment.
But if a woman talks dirty to a man, it's $2.95/minute.
Go figure.
Thats because Men want it and Women don't
So if a woman wear somthing revealing,than a guy give a peek then she hide it.What to you call that?
The casulties of fashion
At least I think so, I coundnt understand what you said like, at all
I am a turd, a lowly abject turd. The movement to eradicate pornography is anti-thetical to S.C.U.M.'s
objectives. It is in our best interest to have men docilely masturbating themselves to extinction behind
their computer screen, locked away in their self imposed imprisonment, hiding behind closed doors. In
this manner we can simply ignore them until they are no longer of any viable use. We already have the
technology to determine the gender of fetuses. This is the key to our success. There is no need for us to
fight them as they will simply vanish of their own free will. In fact the movement to eradicate
pornography is one of the greatest threats that S.C.U.M. faces today. It is a movement started by a
subversive spy network that has infiltrated the feminist movement with the sole purpose of re-
establishing gender biases, re-establishing sexual opression, re-establishing sexual repression, and
ending the true movement of S.C.U.M. to the fore of the feminist movement.
Every argument they make revolves around the principle that women are inherently victims of men, this
is simply untrue. Women will only be victimized by men if they allow themselves to believe that men
can in fact victimize them. Men are truly incapable of doing even this on their own.
These women are traitors to the cause, they have sold out their sisters to a religious fundamental male
dominated hierarchy for the sake of their own comfort, and security. They do not believe in our
inevitable victory. They are not to be trusted.
True feminism must not be allowed to perish.
S.C.U.M. men's auxiliary Florida USA
So...Has anyone complained about yoai yet?
(rhetorical question)
Actually I have plenty complaints about Yao...Wtf man! Lakers is supposed to go 4-0. No one freakin cares about Houston, they can stroke their rockets till they explode for all I care. So f*** Yao. There, you have it.
I propose we move to ban feminists from Japan!
what can individual do about a stupid group like this one?
Send them an email, it's what I did.
we all need to make a non profit group like they have but, we fight to keep all this stuff, and to make more of it. then if we get a lot of people join us we change the laws all over the world to make it a more lolicon hentai loveing place.
Hmm, it seems the comments and outrage were much stronger in the past article on this here, before they won the battle.
Personally, I'm just so shocked that they won. So much that I almost couldn't post a comment about it. I guess that explains it then...
Faith in all that is good - 1
Something must be done, or your lolis might be next! There needs to be a revolution that combats the insane and blinding conservatism in this world.
Unlike most people here, though, I don't blame the feminism. It could have been a religious group, it could have been UNICEF or something similar. Who knows, maybe this will help give an extra push to other groups to pester more Japanese companies.
yeah, after all the awesome comments for the last related story, I'm kind of disappointed here.
one of the best comments I read in the last one said something like "so, Americans, from a country with the largest amount of rapes in the world, is telling Japan, the country with the least amount of rapes in the world, about how to prevent rapes???" LOL
I just tried it and I can see why they didn't like it. Still awesome tbqh.
Rapelay wasn't banned. It lives on as long as torrents and original copies still exist, no? And why do Americans care more about Japan's fake rape sims when they have more real rapists in three city blocks than Japan has at all. Why? Ask them, I bet you they'll come up with some half-assed excuse that will proceed to be backed up by the American government because they still have some grudge against Japan whether they deny it or not.
actually you can download it, it has to be legal if in your country is unlicensed (i think banned is the same, isnt it?) what is the problem (they make it free for us), when that fat bitches make de ero games ilegal then you can get angry.
Feminist whine too much.
If Nietzsche was alive, he would kill all those feminist and say "Equality, my ass.".
The image of an angry German philospher wielding M-60s charging into a feminist rally while shouting "Equality my ass" seems pretty awesome