Well, how about that. Looks like a British woman, Lindsay Ann Hawker, was killed by some jerk off named Ichihashi Tatsuya. Which, I say anyone with three names has it coming, but that's just me. This news comes as no shock to me considering what I know about the penchant for Japanese men to see gaijin women as toys for their own amusement. We should send some of our fat black women over there to teach them the true meaning of sexual harassment. Awww yeah. Why, just recently, a fellow broke into a ladies house to try to rape her over there. True, it is a problem. I am there with you. WHAT I AM NOT THERE WITH is the The Times reporting that the guy owned a large collection of eromanga.
Ok, I hope you times motherfuckers are taking notes. IF, IF, the guy owned eromanga, he wasn't fucked up because of the manga. This fellow owned the manga, likely, because he was fucked up. See how that's the other way around? Now before you start up on that, eromanga, porn, video games. They're not ways to profile sickos and murderers. They never will be. And this puritanical bullshit needs to stop. BBC, Asahi, and Mainichi all managed not to bring up eromanga. EVEN MAINICHI. Come on. You fail it, UK. Someone over there apologize for allowing The Times to be so gay. Oh, and apologize for Bloody Sunday. As a sign of good faith, I hereby apologize for allowing Fox News to be on the air and having assassinated George W. Bush. We'll fix it here pretty soon… I hope.
Oh yeah, and DMP is hiring. So if you're into pictures of two dudes fucking, maybe you should apply.
March 31st, 2007 at 1:05 am
How did you find that job posting? o_0 *is mystified* Unless you were intentionally.. searching for it? :o
March 31st, 2007 at 2:01 am
I saw it when I was trawling for news. This week has been slow as hell, and AN had posted about the killer and the yaoi jobs, and there was nothing of interest on MoonPhase, so I figured what the hell.
March 31st, 2007 at 2:41 am
Haha…I think they're just trying to squeeze as much information as they can out of their sources to attract readership. It's probably a big story in the UK. Police haven't even found the suspect (or it hasn't been long since then) and they're already picking at bits and pieces of the crime scene for speculation. Hopefully they won't push that particular angle for long though. It's really silly.
March 31st, 2007 at 4:16 am
Silly yes, but look at it this way.
Otaku still aren't looked at in a positive light, and whatever Densha Otoko tried to do, this incident just smashed it. All that good rep down the drain.
It's silly. And harmful. Not just to otaku, but to humanity.
March 31st, 2007 at 10:54 am
Drm:
I'm not sure the Otaku thing played into it too much, as only a few UK news venues were even reporting the ero stuff. I think it's a lot more like that shooting recently in Utah in the US. They were imediately assuming that because he was a teen shooter, he played video games, but he didn't even own one. Despite that, a few conservative news outlets reported that it was the video games what made the boy go crazy.
LUL, news needs to be more responsible.
March 31st, 2007 at 4:10 pm
This is rather commonplace though. Nowadays when a teen shooter pops up on the media radar many outlets immediately assume the suspect is a gamer and go from there, as Fitzgerald said. However, people who actually use the "Games made me do it" defense never hold out in court for very long. Game legislation is usually doomed to failure, too.
People have always demonized some form of new, popular entertainment to give simple answers to complex problems. These people are probably set in their ways and won't change their minds even when faced with empirical evidence. I honestly don't think there is much to be done with the hardliners. Eventually the hype surrounding this aspect of popular culture will cool off and they'll find something else to attack.
I just hope some idiotic law doesn't get through by chance…There is so much proposed legislation out there nowadays.
March 31st, 2007 at 4:19 pm
Somewhat relevant to the topic:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p95_eF3bD1w
It's great to know what they allow on the news.
April 2nd, 2007 at 7:49 am
I read this in the 'London Paper' a few days back and it didn't mention anything of that sort. It was definitely not necessary for the Times to report that. Just shows how our media is going downhill lately D: