• gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de
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    3 hours ago

    Isn’t this just the equivalent of the “shooter game discussion” that we had a few years ago?

    I.e., some people argued that playing shooter games would make the people more inclined towards gun violence and we’d see more shootings IRL. but that didn’t happen, as we know a few years later.

    it’s quite straightforward then to assume that sexualized video games don’t really lead to more sexualization IRL, i guess.

    • abir_v@lemmy.world
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      2 hours ago

      The violence discussion comes and goes every couple years. It has since the 80s at least. It’s never had any ground in reality, it’s just fear of whatever media they don’t understand.