video rape game- fun for everyone?

In this disturbing article, the topic of raping in video games is causing much concern in Japan.  Considering the United States get some (but not all) video games from Japan, this is cause for concern here as well.  These games, called Hentai, feature "girlish looking characters" becoming victims of rape, bondage, and torture- in vivid detail.  One game, which goes unnamed, asks the players to complete the goal of finding their boss who fired them from their imaginary job and raping her.  The argument with these gruesome games is whether they are discriminatory towards woman or are simply "trying to fulfuil a fantasty."  While these games are not considered "new" in Japan, the issue at hand is that these games are now available worldwide via Internet.  Needless to say, "furious" is an understatement when refering to women's rights groups.  Taina Bien-Aime, executive director in New York, says, "These sorts of games that normalize extreme sexual violence against women and girls have really no place in our communities."  The article points out that one game is even called RapeLay!
According to women's rights groups, regulation of the games in Japan need to be more strict and the content of these games need to be less violent and discriminatory.  Suspiciously, Japanese officials would not comment on camera or make a statement, but one anonymous official said the government realizes this is a growing problem and will be checking into whether or not self-policing by the gaming industry is enough.  Confusingly, the genitalia are censored in some of these games, yet the themes are not.

Obviously, there are many way this affects the United States as a whole.  First of all, children are starting at a younger age to become familiar with the internet.  If they simply tell their parents they are buying a video game and the parents do not look into the content of the game, these derogatory games could easily fall into the lap of growing children.  Children, for the most part, are visual learners and at some point in their growth, tend to mirror everything they see.  If they grow up with the mindset that doing these things to women are considered normal, what kind of generation will they be?  They will spread the words and ideas to their friends and it will spread like wildfire.  If they start at a young age to treat women (or girls) inferior, this will stick with them throughout their life and we could quite possibly go back to the times when women were actually inferior.  It would be a huge step back in history if we did this.  While I see the other side of the argument (freedom of speech and content through video games and ratings should deter young children from looking at this content), we all know that this will not stop these games from getting into children's hands. 
As a woman, I was literally appalled when I read this article.  I had to reread it the article to make sure I was getting the correct message.  How anyone could want to play games that feature such disgusting and inferior treatment to any race, sex, etc, is beyond me.


check it out. it's extremely disturbing and to me, frustrating, annoying, etc!

http://www.wjactv.com/news/23013827/detail.html