Let me try to condense this story, particularly for the non-gamers out there in my vast audience.
There's an Xbox 360 game called Mass Effect. It's a space opera-type game where you can go all kinds of places and have your character do all kinds of things.
One of those things is to get involved in a relationship with a human (or alien) and have a tryst with them. The scenes involved are PG-13 level at worst. I've seen naughtier material on Desperate Housewives.
Well, some right-wing blogger, without playing the game, started calling the Xbox the "Sexbox" and railed against Mass Effect for showing graphic sex scenes and full nudity. Game bloggers then picked up on this and forced the guy into multiple retractions.
THEN, Fox News, always eager to stir up controversy with nothing to back it up, tried doing the same story. They got a woman named Cooper Lawrence to be the on-camera "expert" and decry Mass Effect for having such filth in a game marketed to young children (it's not, of course, it's rated M for mature). Obviously had never played the game, never seen the game, might not even know what a videogame was if it hit her in the head.
Now, the Intertubes are getting their revenge in a juvenile but poetically just manner. They are entering hundreds of reviews of her book on Amazon.com, decrying it for being filled with filth and smut and inappropriate images. Of course, no one's read the book, but just like Ms. Lawrence on Fox, that's not stopping them from having an opinion of it.
Aeropause: Gamers Trash Amazon Rating
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