Sexy Video Game Avatars Make Women Excuse Rape?
Study out of an American university "Virtual Human Interaction Lab" says women who use such avatars are much more likely to make excuses for rape:
http://www.popsci.com/article/gadgets/using-sexy-video-game-avatar-makes-women-objectify-themselves
I've participated in psychology studies. It's a joke! You just do it for the 20 bucks. They get the results they want. Based on a questionnaire of (I presume) university students (not representative of larger population) they offer the following analysis:
Possibly, the sexualized self might have triggered a form of self-defense; that is, participants might have attributed blame to rape victims because they did not want to imagine themselves in a similar situation. Lonsway and Fitzgerald (1994) argued that women might perpetuate rape myths to justify why victims were raped and thus 'reaffirm an individual’s false sense of security that they are somehow immune to rape.' Another possibility is that seeing the suggestively dressed self might have triggered memories of being told by a parent or authority figure that dressing in such a manner was 'asking for it,' resulting in a sense of blame.
Guys, this is a joke. As was discussed in the previous thread where members of the community expounded on the various pros and cons of video game boob jiggle and related content, politically correct forces are wanting to smear those who refuse to submit. Don't agree that sexualized female characters should be avoided? Then you are pro-rape! This is the conclusion they were going for in this study. How interesting that those rape questions were asked.
Beware of this kind of agenda-driven pseudo science.
What do you all think?
Comments
Oh look, another soap box post from MtnPeak.
Meh.
Yikes. Please don't post topics like this Mtnpeak. Rape is a very sensitive subject, especially to those who have been victims of it.