On Censorship and Oblivion
So…. maybe you havent heard of the game Oblivion, because you’re not into games (or you are otherwise amish) and perhaps you havent heard about the PC only mod that allows you to play Topless Female Characters, displaying the premade nipple textures made by the artists who created the skins for the game.
Recently the good folks who made Oblivion felt the need to change the rating from T for Teen, to M for Mature. Because there is a hidden, hard to unlock nipple in the PC version.
A nipple like this one for example:
Or like this one:
(That’s one of Whistlers nudes. yes whistler. The guy who got famous for painting his mother in a rocking chair, you cultureless heathen. Ok for christs sake look it up on wikipedia)
I got to thinking, what happened that made the nipple so fucking scary? I mean if we were carving the fucking thing in marble so it can stand behind our lawmakers and painting it since the beginning of recorded american history what gives?
I think I’ve got it figured out and maybe this is a long shot, but bear with me now.
They dont think of games as art. It is not given the same privelages as art. I mean we’ve had artists SHIT ON THE AMERICAN FLAG and call it art and its protected speech. We’ve had idiots freeze themselves in ice in downtown new york and that’s art.
But once a nipple shows up its porn. That’s it. its porn. And it should be shoved to the back of the bus along with all the other unworthies.
That’s america. Porn is not free speech. NIPPLEs are not free speech.
I wonder what a whoremonger like Ben Franklin would think of that? Or a man like Jefferson who loved to dip his wick in his own slave pen would think about us freaking out about NIPPLES?
but, that’s life I guess. Let them be terrified of video games, because the video game industry is vast and huge and probably wont roll over. Let more GTA games keep pouring out and keep unknowledgeable people like Jack Thompson get his panties in a wad, so he’s not attacking real issues.
The lesson is this:
Rich white republican fundies are convinced that even though their children suck a nipple for the first year they’re here, they should never see another. I am sure of it.
May 9th, 2006 at 4:56 am
do everyone interested in sex or relative things?
i don’t understand it.
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