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Am I the only one who's incredibly disturbed by this?
Particularly this section:
Brathwaite was particularly struck by a moment in the game where Ruby, the 15-year-old sister, stumbles into a deserted playground in the forest where a young man, sitting on a bench, offers her a cigarette. Then he sits back on the bench.
"He's just sitting there," says Brathwaite. Still: "The actual thought that ran through my head at the time was, 'Oh my God, am I going to be raped?' "
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"The vulnerabilities of girls - it's something that people don't deal with much in this particular format," says Harvey. She observes that most games for girls are about pink or ice skating or horses - things that are safe and unchallenging for them.
It's possible I'm interpreting this the wrong way, but that sounds to me like the only things they could think of to put in a video game to challenge girls were men / predators wolves and undertones of sexuality.
Tell me if I'm being crazy or unfair. I am posting this without fully thinking it through, because it's two am and I'm majorly creeped out.
Particularly this section:
Brathwaite was particularly struck by a moment in the game where Ruby, the 15-year-old sister, stumbles into a deserted playground in the forest where a young man, sitting on a bench, offers her a cigarette. Then he sits back on the bench.
"He's just sitting there," says Brathwaite. Still: "The actual thought that ran through my head at the time was, 'Oh my God, am I going to be raped?' "
...
"The vulnerabilities of girls - it's something that people don't deal with much in this particular format," says Harvey. She observes that most games for girls are about pink or ice skating or horses - things that are safe and unchallenging for them.
It's possible I'm interpreting this the wrong way, but that sounds to me like the only things they could think of to put in a video game to challenge girls were men / predators wolves and undertones of sexuality.
Tell me if I'm being crazy or unfair. I am posting this without fully thinking it through, because it's two am and I'm majorly creeped out.