Playground tag called "raping game" changed after head's intervention (From The Argus)

The word 'rape' has been on normal TV and news quite a bit over the last six months. I've had to have uncomfortable chats with my young'uns about what they've seen in the media recently.

You can't pin the blame on computer games.

This has nothing to do with video games at all. It is the Argus trying to drum up hysteria.

Hahaha, blaming video games? Call yourselves Journalists?

The amazing thing about this story is the parents and their total ignorance of the fact that ten year olds could be familiar with these words.

Why couldn't any of my teachers look like that ;-)

I'm sorry... exactly what Video Game contains scenes of rape in it exactly... ?

"It is unsure what video game led to the naming of the game, but several on the market contain scenes of rape."

REALLY? SEVERAL!?

I'll tell you why you're unsure which game it is... it's becasue it's not real, it's a fallacy, made up to add some weight to a flimsy story...

I can count on one hand how many 'mainstream' games have had scenes of rape in them, and I can guarantee that the Children at Stanford Road school will not have played them...

If the Games Industry was a person it would be suing you for libel right now...

We used to play a game in the playground called the Pooey Yeti Monster - we ran around chased each other simulated defecating on each others heads and swapped - until a dinner lady told us it was wrong - so we stopped - we made it up... didn't think it was so bad, until an adult drew the line.

Children make stuff up - it's what they do... Blaming it on some mythical scene in 'many' video games shows how out of touch with the video game culture you are.

Shame on you argus.

Read again.It was coined after a group of boys played a video game.Its not saying 100% its down to a video game.Anyway i think the headteacher has got this spot on,and i would be more than happy to send a child of mine to her school.Also she looks hot in that Seagulls top.We never had headteachers that looked like her in my day lol.

When we were 7 or 8 we used to play Kiss Chase and a novel expansion pack called 'Knicker Chase' (use your imagination). It was tantamount to sexual assault, looking back. Today kids play Tig & call it rape.. I suppose the parents should be glad, in some ways.

Freeloaders wrote:
Read again.It was coined after a group of boys played a video game.Its not saying 100% its down to a video game.Anyway i think the headteacher has got this spot on,and i would be more than happy to send a child of mine to her school.Also she looks hot in that Seagulls top.We never had headteachers that looked like her in my day lol.

Oh I have read it Freeloader.

I've got no problem with Stanford Schools reaction to what is ostensibly kids being kids - using words they got from somehwere (just as easily Eastenders as a video game) without knowing the full implilcation of it... What the Headteacher has done is right, hats off to that - no problems there.

What the Argus have done (blaming it on 'many' videogames that apparently have rape scenes in them) is simply untrue and has no basis in fact...

I'm sorry, this is just theArgus grinding the old 'video games' are evil rhetoric...

Blame it on corrie And tv getting to inappropriate before water shed

I remember when I was a kid (1950s) and we used to say eeny meeny miny mo catch an "man from an Ethnic minority background" by the toe.

So this sort of thing is not new!

we used to play a game called 'rapeby', a variation of rugby, 25 years ago when I was at school! This is nothing new! It is good that the headmistress took action, because she would have been scrutinised had she not, but years ago we were just ignored and we soon got bored of the game.

You wouldn't recognise the head from this picture! She obviously had an old press shot at the ready, and as a new head is eager to make an impression.
The little boy in the middle of this - who has some physical problems and had been bullied consistently this year - saw the word on a 'real crime' documentary, but didnt know what it meant. Right now, he's sitting at home crying, terrified about what has happened. Because he's not been exposed to things like this, he'd taken a guess that it was something to do with fighting. And now, with national press involved - the boy whose mother went to the argus bought the paper in to school - his little world has collapsed. He now knows what it means. And is ashamed to leave e house. Is this journalism? Really? The argus has just lost one family of readers - does it feel like a job well done to you?

Not one single post on here mentions Grand teft auto, and outher games.
If adults let there 10 year old kids play games that are 18 rated what do you expect! every other word in these games is an obcsenity

lorrie1 wrote:
Not one single post on here mentions Grand teft auto, and outher games.
If adults let there 10 year old kids play games that are 18 rated what do you expect! every other word in these games is an obcsenity

Having played every Grand Theft Auto game going I don't recall a single reference to rape in it. These games contain the same level of adult content as your average Martina Cole novel, and is certainly better written and contains less sex in it then the biggest selling book of all time '50 Shades of Grey'. It's funny how people are able to comment on something they have no clue about.

I'm a bit worried that it took so long for the teachers to realise what was going on.

So the matter was dealt with in the school.

So what does a parent contacting the Argus achieve ?

Wiggum wrote:

lorrie1 wrote: Not one single post on here mentions Grand teft auto, and outher games. If adults let there 10 year old kids play games that are 18 rated what do you expect! every other word in these games is an obcsenity

Having played every Grand Theft Auto game going I don't recall a single reference to rape in it. These games contain the same level of adult content as your average Martina Cole novel, and is certainly better written and contains less sex in it then the biggest selling book of all time '50 Shades of Grey'. It's funny how people are able to comment on something they have no clue about.

I said g,t,a as an example! there are plenty of other games that have NO morals whatso ever.

lorrie1 wrote:

Wiggum wrote:

lorrie1 wrote: Not one single post on here mentions Grand teft auto, and outher games. If adults let there 10 year old kids play games that are 18 rated what do you expect! every other word in these games is an obcsenity

Having played every Grand Theft Auto game going I don't recall a single reference to rape in it. These games contain the same level of adult content as your average Martina Cole novel, and is certainly better written and contains less sex in it then the biggest selling book of all time '50 Shades of Grey'. It's funny how people are able to comment on something they have no clue about.

I said g,t,a as an example! there are plenty of other games that have NO morals whatso ever.

Care to name a few? ......you seem to know all about it.

Oh right, so the kids were basically playing tag then? They could've called it any name they wanted but at the end of the day it is still tag. Why try to blame a video game or the media? This is 2013 or hasn't anyone noticed? It's just a name and a really stupid story as well.

The little boy who introduced the word doesn't own any video games - fact. He does however watch tv sometimes - he picked this unpleasant word up from a crime documentary on tv one afternoon - and his family also listen to radio 4 a lot, which has been featuring words like this recently in its coverage of various things, such as the Saville inquiry and the recent rape and murder of a young female bus passenger in India. I feel sorry for him, he must be feeling dreadful and ashamed as must his parents.

The parent who went to the press - whose son was also playing this inappropriately named game (which is just a game of tag) is however part of the family of a career media figure whose main interests are in... Guess what...the evils of video games.

Kids use words they don't know the meaning of all the time. This story isn't newsworthy. But because of the media coverage, there is now a terribly upset and worried little boy. Hopefully, the school and governors will be asked to account for the nonsense that has been given to the press.

lorrie1 wrote:

Wiggum wrote:

lorrie1 wrote: Not one single post on here mentions Grand teft auto, and outher games. If adults let there 10 year old kids play games that are 18 rated what do you expect! every other word in these games is an obcsenity

Having played every Grand Theft Auto game going I don't recall a single reference to rape in it. These games contain the same level of adult content as your average Martina Cole novel, and is certainly better written and contains less sex in it then the biggest selling book of all time '50 Shades of Grey'. It's funny how people are able to comment on something they have no clue about.

I said g,t,a as an example! there are plenty of other games that have NO morals whatso ever.

I'm interested which games you are referring to. As a life long gamer it seems that it hasn't affected my literacy and grammar, unlike yourself.

Wiggum wrote:

lorrie1 wrote:

Wiggum wrote:

lorrie1 wrote: Not one single post on here mentions Grand teft auto, and outher games. If adults let there 10 year old kids play games that are 18 rated what do you expect! every other word in these games is an obcsenity

Having played every Grand Theft Auto game going I don't recall a single reference to rape in it. These games contain the same level of adult content as your average Martina Cole novel, and is certainly better written and contains less sex in it then the biggest selling book of all time '50 Shades of Grey'. It's funny how people are able to comment on something they have no clue about.

I said g,t,a as an example! there are plenty of other games that have NO morals whatso ever.

I'm interested which games you are referring to. As a life long gamer it seems that it hasn't affected my literacy and grammar, unlike yourself.

sadly your comment, resorting to such pettiness, is a summary of the comments section on this site.

Edcat100 wrote:
The little boy who introduced the word doesn't own any video games - fact. He does however watch tv sometimes - he picked this unpleasant word up from a crime documentary on tv one afternoon - and his family also listen to radio 4 a lot, which has been featuring words like this recently in its coverage of various things, such as the Saville inquiry and the recent rape and murder of a young female bus passenger in India. I feel sorry for him, he must be feeling dreadful and ashamed as must his parents.

The parent who went to the press - whose son was also playing this inappropriately named game (which is just a game of tag) is however part of the family of a career media figure whose main interests are in... Guess what...the evils of video games.

Kids use words they don't know the meaning of all the time. This story isn't newsworthy. But because of the media coverage, there is now a terribly upset and worried little boy. Hopefully, the school and governors will be asked to account for the nonsense that has been given to the press.

This x a few hundred. The fact that this is even ran as a story is bordering on the absurd.

The Argus clearly relies on folk coming to them as the days of the roving reporter seem numbered.

This is a non-story as you say, and understandably the boy is upset.

Easy to resolve.
Tell the kids that it is wrong and that they have to stop the game.
Tell the parents that it has been sorted.
Tell the press nothing.

dhamallamafarmer wrote:
When we were 7 or 8 we used to play Kiss Chase and a novel expansion pack called 'Knicker Chase' (use your imagination). It was tantamount to sexual assault, looking back. Today kids play Tig & call it rape.. I suppose the parents should be glad, in some ways.

We used to play "Jockey's Knock". It was like "Postman's Knock", but with more horseplay...

PorkBoat wrote:

dhamallamafarmer wrote:
When we were 7 or 8 we used to play Kiss Chase and a novel expansion pack called 'Knicker Chase' (use your imagination). It was tantamount to sexual assault, looking back. Today kids play Tig & call it rape.. I suppose the parents should be glad, in some ways.

We used to play "Jockey's Knock". It was like "Postman's Knock", but with more horseplay...

We also used to play "Beat Your Neighbour". Every Friday night we'd go next door and have a punch-up.