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Video Game's 'Capture the Babe' Mode Has Players Slapping Women

View the article here 03/26/2011 By Jeremy A. Kaplan & Patrick Manning A new videogame that requires you to abduct women and give them a "reassuring slap" if they freak out has gamers and women's rights-groups crying foul. Brace yourself for the awfully sexist world of Duke Nukem Forever. The game's 1996 precursor Duke Nukem 3D -- which sold 3.5 million copies, made millions for its developers and transformed the entire world of video games -- depicted women as strippers and prostitutes. The new iteration of the game, set for release this spring, takes sexism to a new level -- starting with Duke receiving implied oral sex from twins in school uniforms. "It was offensive then and it's even more offensive now," Jamia Wilson, vice president of the Women's Media Center, told FoxNews...continue to full post

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