I don’t think so, and this is a very valid reason for ending a relationship. You have needs that aren’t being met by the relationship. Tell her you don’t want to coerce her into doing something she doesn’t want to do and you also don’t want her to compromise her religious beliefs, so you’re leaving. You love her but…

I appreciate your insight very much. This is not the kind of thing guys can talk about with each other, generally. Sometimes I wish there was a Jezebel for men so we could.

She said no and froze like a corpse. It’s not like he was special needs. I am sure he gathered she was not into it. He ignored her no and hours of pushing away. Rape is rape and no means no. We shouldn’t have to worry about how to make it easier for the rapist.

She said no repeatedly. She never consented, she never assented (as someone points out in another comment). Lying there and not participating in the sexual encounter is a clear sign of discomfort and not consenting. Rape looks like this too. If she was “being coy” she would have participated or responded to the…

The author said no many times and never gave consent. This is rape.

Agree completely. The author’s grasp of the concept of censorship is sketchy at best. Is it censorship if it’s being done for commercial purposes? No.

I can’t say I consider localization the same thing as censorship. What flies in Japan doesn’t always fly here. If the game were released with breast sliders in the u.s. and some busy body gets on the local news to complain about it, then it would start making the rounds and end up on CNN. Then everyone would threaten…

Look dude, Nabokov didn’t invent the concept of pedophilia and he wasn’t the first to explore it in literature, but the title of the song combined with the content is clearly a reference to his book, it’s not a coincidence.

Uh huh. The song “Moi Lolita” with a video about a 14 year old girl in a relationship with an adult and flirting with other adults, with lyrics about having to keep quiet in order to not get other people in trouble for “her mistakes”, “has nothing to do with” the widely known book Nabokov wrote about an underage girl…

Nailed it. Largely because equating reducing a female character’s breast to banning literature is, frankly, fucking ridiculous and kind of creepy.

The problem here is how quickly you are to throw around the word “censorship”. You can certainly make the argument that removing a breast size slider is an act of censorship and I don’t think you’d be totally incorrect, but the issue is that any reasonable person who doesn’t closely follow the topic is going to think…

In your hypothesis...which is worse: Japanese gaming culture accepting the sexualization of children or American gaming culture complaining when it’s removed?

Sounds more like the final screams of a man who knows he’s wrong but can’t admit to it. Perhaps to himself.

I was also struck by this. Somehow if the administration and faculty don’t show visible emotion in a professional context they lack empathy or the ability to listen and consider what they’re hearing? I’m sure I’ll get slammed in the comments for this, but this sounded like a breach of decorum on the part of the…

The response of the students to their meeting with school executives is embarrassing. They’re complaining about a lack of “empathy” from people that are acting professionally. These aren’t their therapists; it’s the goddamn DEAN OF THE SCHOOL..

But they are sure trying to put themselves on that list.

As much as I don’t like the people who are going to side with you, because most of them will be shit (I’m speaking of the commentariat here), I have to agree.

Yep. That letter basically boiled down to, “These students are adults in the eyes of the law. They can figure some stuff out on their own.”

No student attending Yale will ever be in the “oh, poor me” category of life.

Did anyone actually read the Yale professors response to the halloween costume letter?