International Women’s Day and Month – March 2019
The RINJ Foundation WAR on Scumbag Rape-Game Developers.
The RINJ Foundation WAR on Scumbag Rape-Game Developers. Photo Credit: Art by Feminine-Perspective Magazine‘s Rosa Yamamoto
The RINJ Foundation WAR on Scumbag Rape-Game Developers.
Photo Art by Feminine-Perspective Magazine‘s Rosa Yamamoto
The RINJ Foundation Women, a Canadian-based Civil Society group has been fighting for the safety of women and children from sexual violence since 2005 as The RINJ (Rape Is No Joke) Campaign and since 2012 as a Canadian not-for-profit corporation, The RINJ Foundation.
According to Katie Alsop, a director of the organization, despite the birth and growth of the organization which was driven by a pandemic of rape crime used as a weapon of war, the crime of sexual violence around the world has never been worse.
“As 40% of women in South Africa suffer rape crime,” she notes, “and as sexual violence crime explodes in South Sudan, plus former ISIS women are being raped in Syria and Iraq, a brain-dead money-grabbing video Rape Day game developer wants everyone to become a virtual rapist and murderer.”
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“The volatility of the situation in South Sudan combined with the lack of accountability for violations and abuses committed throughout Unity, likely leads armed actors to believe that they can get away with rape and other horrific forms of sexual violence,” said Michelle Bachelet, the UN high commissioner for human rights.
While the “rape day” game heads to underground gaming sales outlets at a higher price, at least one outlet will not sell the game.
Rape Day will not ship on SteamOver the past week you may have heard about a game called ‘Rape Day’ coming soon to Steam. Today we’ve decided not to distribute this game on Steam. Given our previous communication around Who Gets To Be On The Steam Store?, we think this decision warrants further explanation. Much of our policy around what we distribute is, and must be, reactionary—we simply have to wait and see what comes to us via Steam Direct. We then have to make a judgement call about any risk it puts to Valve, our developer partners, or our customers. After significant fact-finding and discussion, we think ‘Rape Day’ poses unknown costs and risks and therefore won’t be on Steam. We respect developers’ desire to express themselves, and the purpose of Steam is to help developers find an audience, but this developer has chosen content matter and a way of representing it that makes it very difficult for us to help them do that. |
In the words of the publisher:
“Control the choices of a menacing serial rapist during a zombie apocalypse. Verbally harass, kill and rape women as you choose to progress the story.”
“It’s a dangerous world with no laws. The zombies enjoy eating the flesh of warm humans and brutally raping them but you are the most dangerous rapist in town.”
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The RINJ Foundation‘s Sharon Santiago says that “Internet service providers caught offering content for and about rape video-games to encourage youth to rape and kill women would face harsh legal and extra legal action from RINJ and via RINJ legal complaints to jurisdictional authorities.
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