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Op Ed

[Oct 05, 2011, 11:08 am ET] - Share - Viewing Comments

Kotaku - Stop Playing Video Games! Get a Job! Get Married! Be a Man!
Sigh. I'm all for encouraging people so step up and get a job (Look ma, I'm blogging), but can we leave the cheap video game slams out of it? I get that it's an easy shortcut to illustrating the kind of social maladjustment that the article describes, but it's just so lazy. Furthermore, abstractly invoking video games does little to actually illustrate Bennett's broader point, which may very well be something worth talking about. All I get from this is "These numbers say that men play video games, so of course that is part of the problem here." Specific examples, please!

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Re: Op Ed

Oct 5, 2011, 13:58

^mortis^

there is no lawn big enough for you and this man... ^m^

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Comment [quote="^mortis^"Oct 5, 2011, 13:58]there is no lawn big enough for you and this man... b[ ^m^]b [/quote]

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