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Sex Worker's Advocate blame Grand Theft Auto Series!

SS4Gogeta | December 18, 2007 | News | PC Playstation 2 
That's right! Prostitutes are complaining about the treatment of prostitutes in the GTA games. HELLO! Anyone in the game can be shot, beaten up, blown up, run over etc... Will Jack Thompson come to their rescue?
You may not be aware that today is the fifth annual International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers, but the Toronto Sun and Anastasia Kuzyk of the Sex Workers' Alliance of Toronto are. The latter was quote in the former as saying that "Sex work is a job, and violence isn't in the job description" and points to depictions of violence against prostitutes in popular culture as legitimizing. Specifically, Kuzyk points a finger at Rockstar Games' Grand Theft Auto series.

There's a video game out there where you can run down prostitutes and kill them and beat them up and take their money. It feeds into the whole subculture of allowing the violence to continue. Violence against sex workers should not be normalised, but it is.
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  • 2 thumbs!
    Play ISDF | December 19, 2007
    Just what the *bleep*? What's next, every single white person is going to sue Rockstar for playing a black man in San Andreas? Get a bloody life...you beat up ANYONE. Shoot ANYONE. Punch ANYONE. Steal ANYONE'S CAR. Seriously this is just sad.
  • 0 thumbs!
    Gamesta100 | December 19, 2007
    God these people piss me off.You can kill white people in GTA, but you don't hear me complain.

    Do these pathetic sooks think we are going to give them sympathy because they are offended by something? The only thing complaining is going to get from me is a slap to the head.

    All I can say to these wingers is cry me a river so I can drown you in it.
  • -3 thumbs!
    Final Blade | December 19, 2007
    [sarcasm]But guys its wrong, wrong how they portrayed them right and now they want to sue cause they know they are screwed up. [/sarcasm]

    Anyway people will always blame someone for something. I mean on the news this women sued Michael Flatly(i think its right) saying he raped her or something and now the court is making her pay him 11 million dollars. They are stupid, they think they can sue any rich and famous people for money without proof. I guess this is the same in a way.
  • 0 thumbs!
    kik36 | December 19, 2007
    I ALWAYS tip my hooker after beating her. If it was true that GTA helped normalize the violence against hookers, wouldn't we have more dead hookers than anything?
  • 1 thumbs!
    Alvaroduck | December 19, 2007
    Who defends prostitutes?

    Violence existed way before video games. It's stupid trying to blame everything that's wrong in the world on video games.
  • 2 thumbs!
    Bri | December 19, 2007
    ....This made me laugh, honestly. Prostitutes know they are screwing with people for money, if anything GTA portraying prostitution in a negative light is beneficial to society, it may make girls think twice before selling themselves, because CJ or Tommy can go loco and shoot them with an M16.
  • 0 thumbs!
    SS4Gogeta | December 19, 2007
    Maybe the advocate doesn't know that once CJ does the "Pimping" mission, the prostitutes pay him for sex. So there's no reason to run over them unless it's for fun.

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