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Thursday 19 April, 2012
As I was playing the game, I noticed many other stereotypes than just the one I discussed previously. Another stereotype in this game is gender. The role of women in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas is negative just like in many other video games. Many if not most of the women portrayed in the game are prostitutes which you can pick up. I do not think you can sleep with them without using any cheats, however I can be wrong. It really interests me in games why it is not the other way around. Why can’t you have a woman main character and male prostitutes throughout the game? Many video games are made by men for men, who of course think this kind of behavior is okay. This made me curious to think what would happen if women were the ones making these games, if they would take it to this level and have their lead female characters sleep around with male prostitutes. But that is a question that we will now never know since it is always possible.
I think is game is fun to play. It lets you escape the real world and do things you wouldn’t otherwise. It made me think about playing it when I was a lot younger. I was playing the game and doing all these bad things without really thinking about them. I know I was not the only one, which made me curious about that attracts young children to want to play such graphic and violent games like this. I know it may seem fun and cool, but at young ages you really do not know what you are doing. It is a little crazy to think about what children can get their hands on these days. But it is even scarier to think about the people making these games. What would posses people to make games where you can kill other people, sleep with prostitutes, and run people over, etc.?
I decided this time, when playing the game, to try and be good. However, it kind of made the game less fun. What is the point of doing the right thing when you could do the wrong thing and still get something out of that? I went along my mission trying not to hurt people nor do anything that would be looked at as morally wrong, but when I thought about it, there was not much left that I could actually do. In video games like this, you are kind of forced to act unethically and immorally if you want to play the game and have fun. You could not kill people, but that in turn would get you killed. In the end I decided to just go along and act immorally and actually stay alive and have fun playing the game.
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