Sex & Violence

After my extended absence during my recovery (by the way, it still hurts like a mo’ fo’, thanks for asking), I must immediately return to ranting like the lunatic that I am. After all, what would one’s highly anticipated return to the blogosphere be without a lot of arm waving, hair pulling, and soapboxing? Alright, so I am the only one highly anticipating my own return, screw it, I am famous in my own world.
CENSORSHIP
It’s the topic of the day, kiddies. First off, let’s get something straight: there is a big difference between censorship and enacting age based limitations on consumption of media. After all, entertainment forms do have several in place already. I consider enforcing age limitations to be a way to sidestep having to go down the ugly and wayward path of outright censorship, and is thus, a necessary evil. So for all the kiddies out there who were lamenting the fact that several states are now requiring the M status on video games to be akin to R rated movies, I just have to say get the FUCK over it. Which would you rather have happen, not being able to play the games until you are eighteen (or your parents loosen your leash and trust your mental capacity), or not being able to play the games EVER because they aren’t allowed to be made (which would then be the actual affront to the First Amendment)???? That’s what I thought. Now Quit whining.
BUT…what I am really not understanding is the current uproar about this whole matter being caused by a very specific game. Now, the ruckus that GTA San Andreas is causing is for an apparently unlockable portion where you can get some nookie. Whoopdee shit, digital boobies. But ho OH! It has scared the willies out of parents and congress alike, not only to enforce a newer tighter restriction of Adults Only on the title, but causing it to be pulled off the shelves in several stores and cities. Which, incidentally, just helped that game company sell a whole lot more units, by the way, so I am sure they thank you for the blissfully profitable marketing you just provided. Now, what I am not grasping in this whole fiasco is that in this game you can rip apart a police officer with a chainsaw and steal the squad car. This has actually been prevalent in the last three installments of GTA, with narry a mutter from the conservative front. But…wait, now that tatas are involved, we must be in an uproar?! There’s actually some holierthanthou mindfuckingly stupid person who is SUEING rockstar games for damages due to suddenly seeing this being played by the fourteen year old she bought it for. Oh, and collective damages for anyone else who’s cornea were apparently scarred beyond recognition at the horrible site of pixilated booty knockin’. I heard this and I think my brain ripped in two.
So, rampant violence in society is fine, but T & A ain’t okay?! What the FUCK people. Do you realize how friggin ridiculous this is. This game, and actually, every game ever made by the company, is insanely violent, to the point of passing gratuitous and going straight for outright lunacy with a flamethrower. Sure, there’s been rumblings, especially when they released the game about rioting (which, incidentally, I didn’t find all that amusing, save for being able to decapitate someone and then use the head as another weapon). But they’ve been able to float under the conservative radar with most of the crapola they pull, despite it’s obvious depravity. Now mind you, I ain’t knocking these games. The graphics rock and the open ended concept and freeform gaming engine is pure genius. I just wouldn’t buy them for a fourteen year old. Hell, I’d let my kid play Leisure Suit Larry before this game, to be honest (wait, no I wouldn’t, that game sucked eggs).
I just don’t understand how, in a world with a war without reason, children killing children, and apathy towards the pain of others, our society is choosing to ignore the guns and freak out over the titties.