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Penny Arcade Strip Sticks in Craw of Rape Survivors

By pete_gallagher

While Penny Arcade could never be called politically correct, a strip that ran last week in the online comic has offended some feminists and rape survivors.

The strip in question, entitled The Sixth Slave, took a jab at quests in massively multiplayer games and featured an extra slave who was not saved because the hero in question had already achieved his quota needed for a quest completion. This extra slave, in an attempt to sway the hero, utters the line 'Every night, we are raped to sleep by the dickwolves.'

The use of this term caused a Shakesville columnist (and self-described feminist) to pen a story in which she argued that rape isn't funny, writing: Read More

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Full post as published by GamePolitics.com on August 16, 2010 (boomark / email).