F*cking oath!

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Anyways, bullshit article IMO.

Video games cause deviancy in the youth
Internet
Comic Books
Rock and Roll
Jazz
Socrates

So true ^^

You sound angry. Have you by any chance been virtually killing people today?

Hahahaha lol man best comment ever.

Comic books hahaha

And he is working on this book :

"The Demise of Guys: Why Boys Are Struggling and What We Can Do About It"

lolol

I know it's Malstrom, and he has a point, but that blog is written in such a sexist way.

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I'm not seeing any evidence of the claims in the OP. Great scientific method these guys have.

A psychologist trying to solidfy his tenure and cash in by publishing on a hot-button, deeply misunderstood topic and probably reaching a set of conclusions he and his projected audience have long decided upon.

To credit video games with the male disconnect is as inaccurate as blaming CoD for the Norway massacre. The culprit in both cases is not so easily identified but mass media and the cult of sensationalism and celebrity that it fosters would be a major cause. Unrealistic expectations in the changed economic environment and the stark reality of the worst excesses of greed and captialism run amok are another.

The disassociation from the near impossible set of sociological ideals that would have every male work tirelessly towards having a set of ridiculously overpriced commodities and the alleged 'perfect' family is the root cause here. Video gaming is the stress releaver, an escape and a pressure valve of sorts imo. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

Did media like books or even movies ever get so much of the blame for societies' ills? Previous eras gathered to watch deathmatches in open air auditoriums and a good hanging always drew a big crowd. Surely virtual reality, even if most of the entertainment value is violent in nature, is just a watered-down facsimile. Anyone who can't differentiate between fantasy and reality has a whole set of issues and potential problems anyway.

There's a simpler (and less obliquely sexist) explanation, in that the world of leisure has simply become a better substitute for what has traditionally been held as the "good life" in modernity. Getting a spouse is hard, buying a house and a car is expensive, and this is a burden that is equally imposing on both genders. One can look to the problem in Japan and simply see the Japanese as a bit ahead of the curve in this regard (though the problems in Japan are also because Japan is simultaneously behind the times with a sexist family legal structure). In Japan there are many young people of both genders who see participation in normal family life (getting married and settling down) as simply too expensive and difficult, and so the structure collapses.

There is a problem somewhere in there, but the blame lies on neither gender, rather the outdated institutions and expectations that are placed on young people.

Give me the name and location of the bank, I'll rob it while you're there, you get time off for "emotional stress" and I'll give you half of what I steal so you don't have to work anymore anytime soon, and I keep my half, deal? :P

i know some people (me included) who were very lazy if it came to schoolwork and they all loved to play video games. but i'm pretty sure the videogames weren't the reason for our lazyness, i would say we played videogames because we were the lazy kind of humans who played so much because it's great if you are lazy^^