"Videogames Cause Rape" Author Gets Amazonbombed


Carole Lieberman, the author and psychologist who stirred up a whole lot of nerd rage recently when she told Fox News that videogames cause rape, is being Amazonbombed.

Fox News recently caused some predictable outrage with a report suggesting that among their many other inherent evils, videogames turn people into rapists. "The increase in rapes can be attributed in large part to the playing out of [sexual] scenes in videogames" was the exact line, coming from one Carole Lieberman, an Emmy award-winning "media psychiatrist," author and expert-witness-for-hire. You can imagine how well that went over.

So as it is wont to do, the internet is now expressing its outrage by Amazonbombing her latest book, Bad Girls: Why Men Love Them and How Good Girls Can Learn Their Secrets. GamePolitics says the tome has gone from six reviews to 40 this morning, the vast majority of them one-star ratings that have dragged its overall review score down to a lowly 1.5/5.

It's interesting to note that while some of the "reviewers" make no bones about the fact that their anger is rooted in Lieberman's ridiculous anti-game comments on Fox, many others take issue with the concept of the book itself: that it encourages women to use sexual manipulation and deceit to get ahead in the world. I haven't read it so I can't really comment but the cover sure ain't subtle.

Odds are that Amazon will pull the plug on at least some of the one-star reviews fairly quickly, although the fact that most of them are civil and more or less on topic could splash some confusion on the process.

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I thought the comments on Amazon were hillarious, some of my favourites:

""Bad Girls" will have a devastating influence on the youth of the world. Children as young as 9-years-old are being exposed to this text.

I can state with certainty that any increase in crime rate that may have been noted near your hometown can be attributed in large part to the authorship of this book."

"I have it on high authority that people reading books with sexy leg outlines tends to lead to a rise in Rape victims. Most of these victims never even saw it coming. They were casually in a store aisle questioning what millions see in Twilight when all the sudden, rape happens. Not even the fancy romantic rape, with months and months of stalking. Nope, just pure sudden rape. Must be those video games."

http://www.amazon.com/Bad-Girls-Carole-Lieberman/dp/292386512X/ref=cm_cr_pr_pb_t

Epic internetrage

I gave her one star for teh luls.  What a hypocrite though, "videogames are bad now let me teach your daughter to be a manipulative slut?"

Hahaha, some of those reviews were hillarious.

but on a serious note this woman has won an award and is a published author, so there could be some gravitas in her reasoning.

....however blaming video games for rape is pretty ridiculous. i mean, rapes go back way before the games industry was created - probabily even pre-historic homo-sapiens did this. not to mention, they document rapes and sexual acts quite concisely in books, film and radio. those mediums cover rape in more depth and graphic ways than anything i've seen in a game.

does that mean we start burning games now like when the Nazi's burning books??

This is nothing but a typical fear-mongering propagandist christian fundamentalist reporting from the religious right wing :-/

hahahaha good one.

LOL. When are these "expert" witnesses going to learn? This has happened before. Go on Fox News and blurt baseless assumptions and feel the wrath of "nerd-rage". My fave review was actually a 4 star one:

A Brilliant Satirical Farce,

By 

John Locke

I'm kind of miffed at the other reviews on this site. They obviously didn't get the book. Of course it reads like a whack-job trying to tell pretty women to use their sexuality to sleep with men in order to boost themselves socially; but it's supposed to.

The entire book is based off an unreliable narrator, you can tell from page one, when the spelling and grammatical errors begin to pile on. There's no way you're meant to take this seriously, or else it wouldn't work stylistically. The lack of sources, the use of Freud as the only true person with a true psychology/psychiatry background (we all know about Freud right?), the Cosmo style test? It's a satire written to the point where it looks convincingly real, like Orwell writing "Animal Farm" in a world full of talking animals.

The real one star should go to whoever put it in the nonfiction section...