Sexual Assualt IS NOT A GAME

Does it matter when the games were invented? Seriously, does it matter? I read some of the comments that followed the Huffington Post Article about the Japanese created rape/stalk/torture/grope game called “Rapelay” and by and large people felt it was old news that is now being sensationalized by the media.

April marks Sexual Assault Awareness Month (SAAM) and let’s just be clear: a VICTIM of Rape, Stalking, Torture, and Groping would not describe on any level a heinous physical and emotional violation, as a game. Nor would they describe the lifetime of surviving post-violation, as a game.

Because the “game” Rapelay has made the news long after the 2006 date when it was created people are debating why it is now being called into question and whether or not people should or shouldn’t be offended by it or the other games like it. Is that not the essence of side-stepping the very issue? That the game/games are made at all?

If you aren’t offended then clearly you have never been attacked or violated EVER and one might also surmise that you don’t have a relative or friend who has been attacked either.

Again, April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month (SAAM) the operative word is AWARENESS. What can we do to actually achieve that goal? How do we get through to people that this is not a game? We can never stop trying to educate.

There are times when I read things that make me wonder what the world is coming too…and I feel defeated. Yet succumbing to that emotion is defeatist. I know that I have to keep trying…my children, both boys and a girl, help to keep me inspired when I feel that sinking feeling like it will never ever be enough.

But I am curious what do you do when you wonder who is listening, and do they really care, and how will we ever overcome the seemingly unending barrage of negativity? What inspires you to keep trying?

Huffington Post Article:
http://huff.to/9nTtxB