Video Games and Rape Culture
As a parent of two children, one boy and one girl, I perhaps was not as vigilant as I should have been in controlling their access to video games and movies that had “adult content.” I breathe a sigh of relief that I do not have to raise them in today’s environment. I still remember no longer allowing my son to watch professional wrestling on television. He used to love to physically wrestle with his stuffed power ranger, and I thought it was cute. Then, the news of the death of one child by another resulting from a choke hold that the child saw on TV’s “Wrestlemania,” caused me to end my son’s growing preoccupation with professional wrestling. He took it well and found another way to pass his time. I always controlled the games he could play on his Playstation I then Playstation II, and he seemed fine with being limited to sports only video games. My son was told why and also knew that he should not be shooting weapons while playin...
