Forum Overview :: Gamergate :: Re: It shapes your attitudes

[quote name="Last"]"Reading Lolita one time won't turn you into a pedophile, therefore no amount of reading can ever have an effect on a person's outlook." Fallacy of the heap. Of course your opinions are shaped by the media you consume. The guy who watches Fox News knows Obama is Kenyan. The new age dope knows that quantum physics means crystals can heal. The white power youth who know that the holocaust is a lie. Then, when a kid plays hundreds of games where girls are shown to be less valuable than men, that can affect how he or she views women in real life. <a href="http://public.psych.iastate.edu/caa/abstracts/2005-2009/07CAB.pdf">Re: violent video games</a> When Jack Thompson says that GTA is training millions of youth to drive tanks down 42nd street it's easy to see that he's overestimating the influence of games. But that doesn't mean games (or books or movies) have zero influence. [/quote]