Men all around the world play video games and follow their own version of the guy code. These two things don’t seem to be related, but they are. The guy code has been and is being promoted and developed by video games. Some people might not notice or accept it, but video games greatly impact a person’s mind and way of being. Because of this, videogames need to stop promoting homophobia and violence with the guy code because it is negatively affecting males and those around them. The guy code is a simple set of rules that all men are required to follow. The rules in the guy code are all about promoting masculinity in any way they can. Because of this, many bad rules are implemented in the guy code. Every individual man has his own version
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So why are men using an inoffensive term to offend each other? The reason is that the word gay has only gained a new negative meaning and is not losing its original meaning. The same men who claim that gay is not insulting anybody are using it to insult each other. Nothing is being fixed, the issue is just being ignored. Think about it this way. Let’s say your name now means the same as gay. People all around you use it to insult each other and to describe things negatively. Every time you use the word gay, repeat what you said, but replace the word gay with your own name? How would that make you feel? In reality, the effect of ignoring the problem is that men subconsciously relate gays as in homosexuals to the new meaning being put by videogames. No one wants to be around a person who is lame, unpopular, stupid, or annoying. So when men think of homosexuals they see them as all these bad things in one packet so they want to avoid gays and being gay. It is all homophobia, men not wanting to be gay because it’s lame, boring, unpopular, or …show more content…
It is explained in the article “Perceptual Learning During Action Video Game Playing.” In this article Shawn Green, Renjie Li, and Daphne Bavelier prove, “Action games have been shown to enhance behavioral performance on a wide variety of tasks” (Green). In the essay they explained that, “humans have an incredible capacity to improve their performance on a given task given some manner of repeated practice” (Green). They’re just saying that people get better at doing things with practice. In the study they talk about how videogames are a perfect medium to perform the repeated practice people need. They then go on and talk about the effects of repeating violent actions in videogames. The constant display of shooting guns, threats, stabbing people, destroying vehicles, and causing mayhem in general desensitizes the gamer and allows them to recreate these actions easily. In GTA V the gamer has the ability to infiltrate a military base and steal airplanes and tanks which he can then use to destroy cars and kill anyone in sight. Also threats that the protagonists say add to the desensitization of gamers. In the game, Trevor and other characters say things like, “"Bring me my coffee or I'm gonna cut your arm off!” or “The cops are here, sucks for them” (Leack). The second comment implies the gamer is going to kill all the cops that come to
So why are men using an inoffensive term to offend each other? The reason is that the word gay has only gained a new negative meaning and is not losing its original meaning. The same men who claim that gay is not insulting anybody are using it to insult each other. Nothing is being fixed, the issue is just being ignored. Think about it this way. Let’s say your name now means the same as gay. People all around you use it to insult each other and to describe things negatively. Every time you use the word gay, repeat what you said, but replace the word gay with your own name? How would that make you feel? In reality, the effect of ignoring the problem is that men subconsciously relate gays as in homosexuals to the new meaning being put by videogames. No one wants to be around a person who is lame, unpopular, stupid, or annoying. So when men think of homosexuals they see them as all these bad things in one packet so they want to avoid gays and being gay. It is all homophobia, men not wanting to be gay because it’s lame, boring, unpopular, or …show more content…
It is explained in the article “Perceptual Learning During Action Video Game Playing.” In this article Shawn Green, Renjie Li, and Daphne Bavelier prove, “Action games have been shown to enhance behavioral performance on a wide variety of tasks” (Green). In the essay they explained that, “humans have an incredible capacity to improve their performance on a given task given some manner of repeated practice” (Green). They’re just saying that people get better at doing things with practice. In the study they talk about how videogames are a perfect medium to perform the repeated practice people need. They then go on and talk about the effects of repeating violent actions in videogames. The constant display of shooting guns, threats, stabbing people, destroying vehicles, and causing mayhem in general desensitizes the gamer and allows them to recreate these actions easily. In GTA V the gamer has the ability to infiltrate a military base and steal airplanes and tanks which he can then use to destroy cars and kill anyone in sight. Also threats that the protagonists say add to the desensitization of gamers. In the game, Trevor and other characters say things like, “"Bring me my coffee or I'm gonna cut your arm off!” or “The cops are here, sucks for them” (Leack). The second comment implies the gamer is going to kill all the cops that come to