{"id":4572,"date":"2009-08-18T17:32:28","date_gmt":"2009-08-18T21:32:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=4572"},"modified":"2009-08-18T17:41:17","modified_gmt":"2009-08-18T21:41:17","slug":"to-critics-of-the-path","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=4572","title":{"rendered":"To Critics of The Path"},"content":{"rendered":"

(This was going to wait until I began my series on The Path, but a couple of ludicrous comments have hastened my posting here. Fine<\/em>. Let’s get this over with.)<\/p>\n

People are shocked, shocked!<\/em> that the “Shamus they thought they knew” could possibly like The Path.<\/p>\n

Look, let’s get this straight right now. This game is filled with strange imagery. Very little of it is sexual. (SPOILER: Basically, the part with Carmen<\/span>) It’s okay if you think the game is stupid or offensive or boring or just don’t like it. BUT, if you subscribe to this line of thought:<\/p>\n

1) You saw this game and concluded that, despite the strange non-sexual images, it was simply about the literal rape of six underage girls…<\/p>\n

AND<\/p>\n

2) You conclude that this is the only possible conclusion that anyone could come to and thus EVERYONE sees this game this way…<\/p>\n

AND <\/p>\n

3) Despite all my previous thoughts on childhood, fear, and growing up, I was actually “into” the game because it was “all about rape”…<\/p>\n

AND<\/p>\n

4) You believe that since I like the game and the game is about rape and only rape, and so I must therefore “like rape” or “approve” of rape.<\/p>\n

THEN:<\/p>\n

Leave. Go away. No, don’t go down to the comments and tell me how much I disappointed you, because your opinion now has no value to me. If you think so little of me that my endorsement of this game leads you to such conclusions, then I couldn’t<\/em> have disappointed you because nothing I’ve ever written before now has ever left any sort of impression on you. You should just leave and not come back. <\/p>\n

Even if the game WAS about rape, my approval of the game wouldn’t be approval of rape. It’s possible to like the movie se7en without liking cutting the heads off of innocent people. And not everyone who watched Silence of the Lambs thought it was okay to eat people. <\/p>\n

If the above forehead-slamming train of simplistic thought has led you to reject me as an evil man or a bad father, then I’m seriously creeped out by you<\/em>. Bye.<\/p>\n

Hopefully I won’t be hearing more from the “OMG Shamus likes rape” crowd, but fair warning: I will be mercilessly and unflinchingly deleting comments.<\/strong> I am not kidding when I say you people creep me out and you are not welcome here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(This was going to wait until I began my series on The Path, but a couple of ludicrous comments have hastened my posting here. Fine. Let’s get this over with.) People are shocked, shocked! that the “Shamus they thought they knew” could possibly like The Path. Look, let’s get this straight right now. This game […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[111],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-notices"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4572\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}