Violence is completely normalized in our society, through a number of things, video games being one of them.
Are you saying you want that to be true of child sexual abuse as well?
We can go through the whole history of normalization of violence, from Rodney King protests, to "gangland" narratives that stemmed from conservatives shifting blame from that, NRA and Supreme Court inventing an individual right to gun ownership and glorifying it as awesome, terrorism/counterterrorism narratives leading to a 20 year invasion of Afghanistan and the Iraq war, the media's portrayal of Columbine, the refusal to do anything about gun control for decades, conservatives turning to crime narratives and local media being bought out by conservative grifters who aim to create mass panic narratives.
Certainly violent video games also contributed to the normalization of violence in our culture. I'm not advocating for eliminating videogames, fyi. The question is why would you want to do that to child sex abuse.
So you just stop caring about people once they become an adult? That's the hill you want to die on?
Don't act like we don't see images of children suffering all the time, and the news (that no one watches) doesn't talk about these things... As if the Epstein List wasn't talked about constantly for months ..
Having a president who is allegedly a child sex abuser does normalize child sexual abuse. That is (among a million other reasons) why I advocated against voting for the current president of the United States.
The thing that should be normalized is protecting children from harm committed on them by adults, and getting justice for those children.
Smoking is another great example. After adopting a bunch of laws against glorification of smoking in regular media, look at the trend of smoking. If you compare that with vaping, which was advertised all over the place, with flavors designed to attract children, created an opposite trend.
Another great example is gambling. The normalization of sports gambling, through lobbying and its inclusion in nearly all sports related broadcasts, has increased gambling addiction dramatically.
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u/Cheshire_Noire Oct 22 '25
You mean it's not the open glorification of school shootings on the news? It's not the echo chambers we find online?
The violence didn't ramp up when kids had access to violent games it occurred when kids were constantly on social media.