thread: 2005-05-16 : Violence
On 2005-05-17, Ben Lehman wrote:
I've done a bit of a follow up post at my livejournal.
Yeah, I totally want to talk about how this ties into RPGs, but I haven't yet. Briefly, I think it has to do with the fact that we confused the violent for the manly (courage is manly, violence is boyish) and the messages that modern society, especially white liberal society, gives to men and boys about manliness.
We think we need violence, we can't get it, we make it up, it becomes disease because it was never what we needed in the first place.
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—Ben
