1. We are the Sons of Submission
... 2 There is no subjection so perfect as that which keeps the appearance of freedom. --Jean-Jaques Rousseau. In his two works on mindrape, A Rape in Cyberspace and My Dinner With Catherine MacKinnon (And Other Hazards of Theorizing Virtual Rape), Julian Dibbell points out that in an online setting, the player's identity is ambiguous. The player-character exists somewhere between the virtual and ... ambiguous. The character Raiden is the player "he has the player's name, gender, and blood type on his dog tags to prove it (Document, Ending 4). Yet, he also asserts his independence from the ...
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