Alison Rapp, pro-pedophila activist, fired from Nintendo of America

[The Real Jdbye]

I see nothing wrong with posing nude with game consoles. That's every geeky gamer's wet dream.
Sucks about the rest of it though. I want to know what this second job was and why it was so important to Nintendo.

 

[Bubsy Bobcat]

fictional child porn such as lolis and other stuff in Japan. That was perfectly legal.

Wrong, Lolicon/Shotacon is illegal in most countries. Fictional child porn is still child porn.

 

[MSearles]

She sure is hot though

 

[vayanui8]

Nintendo had many reasons to fire her and I'm glad she's gone. She is a PR representative who not only advocated pedophilia, but did it on the same Twitter account where she often advertised Nintendo products. She was incredibly disrespective to Nintendo's customers(and was a hypocrite while doing it). That's not even to mention the risque photoshoot she did which violated her contract, and had Nintendo products in it. She was terrible for the companies Image and its no surprise she's gone. That said, I wish they would have fired her for her attitude toward customers instead. Blaming it on what I would consider her smallest offense is rather disappointing because it shows Nintendo won't take a stand. They won't acknowledge how she treated their customers, and they won't even point out her pedophilia comments. I get that they can't go all out but it shows that they won't be making any real changes, which is a shame given the status of their recent releases like fire emblem.

 

[Margen67]

gamergate strikes again

 

[ric.]

I see nothing wrong with posing nude with game consoles. That's every geeky gamer's wet dream.
Sucks about the rest of it though. I want to know what this second job was and why it was so important to Nintendo.

Well, yes, but if I worked at Nintendo the last thing my employer would want is to find a picture of me naked convering my ding dong with a 3DS (not to brag but I'd need an XL anyway).
That's a one-way ticket to unemployment-land wherever you are. ESPECIALLY if you work for a family friendly company like Nintendo.
She didn't even do it under a fake name, she shared that stuff using the same twitter she used for Nintendo PR.

tl;dr she wasn't fired because she was a feminist nor because she was pro-pedophilia. She got fired because she was dumb.

 

[Minox]

Wrong, Lolicon/Shotacon is illegal in most countries. Fictional child porn is still child porn.

A fictional character is by definition fictional and does not have a real age. It is also a victimless crime as there is no victim to be found. The whole point of CP laws is to prevent actual children from getting abused and to punish the perpetrators.

 

[vayanui8]

gamergate strikes again

Blaming this on gamergate accomplished nothing. They did nothing but make Nintendo aware of something they likely would have fired her for anyways, and they had plenty of reasons to fire her anyways. It wasn't even the whole of gamergate backing that anyways. It was only a small part that wanted to have her fired. That said, whether you support gamergate or not, this is a good thing

 

[Minox]

Blaming this on gamergate accomplished nothing. They did nothing but make Nintendo aware of something they likely would have fired her for anyways, and they had plenty of reasons to fire her anyways. It wasn't even the whole of gamergate backing that anyways. It was only a small part that wanted to have her fired. That said, whether you support gamergate or not, this is a good thing

Gamergate are more or less the boogeymen of the Internet. Every time something happens they can be blamed for it and almost no one will question whether or not it's true or not. It's quite ridiculous really.

 

[Deleted User]

Blaming this on gamergate accomplished nothing. They did nothing but make Nintendo aware of something they likely would have fired her for anyways, and they had plenty of reasons to fire her anyways. It wasn't even the whole of gamergate backing that anyways. It was only a small part that wanted to have her fired. That said, whether you support gamergate or not, this is a good thing

Gamergate are more or less the boogeymen of the Internet. Every time something happens they can be blamed for it and almost no one will question whether or not it's true or not. It's quite ridiculous really.

I'm fairly sure Margen is joking.

 

[Minox]

I'm fairly sure Margen is joking.

My response wasn't so much a response to Margen as it was a general observation.

 

[Sakitoshi]

can we chill a little?? obviously every media is gonna be on Nintendo side once they see the words child pornography, but let's see the case from a distance to see the whole thing.
Here I found an article about this which takes in account every detail and look at the case more carefully.

NINTENDO FIRES MARKETING REP AMID FIRE EMBLEM FUSS
This year doesn't want for controversies about sexual content in game. Just this week, Blizzard vowed to remove the Tracer archetype's victory pose in Overwatch, while Square Enix revealed that Star Ocean 5's heroine Miki will wear more substantial underwear in both the Japanese and American versions. Yet the biggest battle of all continues to wage over Nintendo's localization of Fire Emblem Fates. It recently cost one Nintendo of America employee her job.

Shortly before Fire Emblem Fates arrived in North America, some fans took issue with Nintendo removing a face-touching feature from the game and altering some of the dialogue. Reasonable criticisms emerged, but a different cadre of malcontents took up the cause as another Gamergate-like crusade against those feminists and activists who allegedly seek to ruin video games by covering cleavage and obscuring buttslaps. The online mob focused their ire on Alison Rapp, a marketing rep for Nintendo of America. Rapp spoke extensively about the issue on Twitter, and for that she became a target.

Determined to get her fired from Nintendo, Rapp's detractors looked for dirt and found some: in 2011, a college-age Rapp wrote an essay debating the legality of child porn. Among other statements, she argues for “less strict legislation against the simple possession of child pornography” on the grounds that such laws often fail to lessen actual child exploitation. It's a creepy line of thought, but Rapp treats the subject entirely in an academic context. Higher education is full of bizarre and potentially repulsive arguments often made from a devil's advocate perspective.

This detail was lost on Rapp's detractors, who launched a campaign to label Rapp “pro-pedophile.” Among those calling for her dismissal were such varied voices as the Wayne Foundation, which opposes sex trafficking, and the Neo-Nazis at The Daily Stormer. Of course, Rapp was not truly attacked for the statements she'd made in a college paper five years ago; she was attacked for being part of Nintendo's marketing arm (not its localization team) and having feminist opinions on Twitter.

The ruse worked. Rapp announced Wednesday that Nintendo had fired her, and Nintendo released a statement that Rapp was let go “due to violation of an internal company policy involving holding a second job in conflict with Nintendo's corporate culture” and denied that the social-media barrage aimed at axing Rapp had anything to do with the company's decision. This is standard corporate practice when dealing with controversy, and signs point to Nintendo technically axing Rapp over her part-time job…which her self-declared enemies also dug up and reported.

It seems apparent that Nintendo fired Rapp for the same reasons the company fired localizer Chris Pranger after he spoke too freely on a podcast, and, indeed, the same reasons Nintendo removed risque content from Xenoblade Chronicles X and Fire Emblem Fates. Nintendo is a cautious, uptight company with a family-friendly image. Nintendo keeps its American branch on a tight leach. Nintendo dislikes controversy. Yet there's another reason this time around: Nintendo gave in to a witch hunt.

Source: ANN

EDIT:
Also for those saying that loli/shotacon is illegal, they are wrong. In most countries is a grey area as isn't legislated at all.
My posture about that is that isn't a matter to worry, fictional characters ar just that, fictional, you can't do damage to something that isn't real. And yes I enjoy lolicon at diary.

 

[Margen67]

can we chill a little?? obviously every media is gonna be on Nintendo side once they see the words child pornography, but let's see the case from a distance to see the whole thing.
Here I found an article about this which takes in account every detail and look at the case more carefully.


Source: ANN

EDIT:
Also for those saying that loli/shotacon is illegal, they are wrong. In most countries is a grey area as isn't legislated at all.
My posture about that is that isn't a matter to worry, fictional characters ar just that, fictional, you can't do damage to something that isn't real. And yes I enjoy lolicon at diary.

found the feminazi/sjw

 

[dfsa3fdvc1]

found the feminazi/sjw

Quick! Stick your fingers and in your ear and sing "LALALALALA I CAN'T HEAR YOU!" before you realize that you're wrong.

 

[Margen67]

Quick! Stick your fingers and in your ear and sing "LALALALALA I CAN'T HEAR YOU!" before you realize that you're wrong.

Please. I've already posted about it on my Twitter and Tumblr.

 

[pastaconsumer]

At the end of the day, Nintendo needs to fix Miitomo...

 

[GuyInDogSuit]

At the end of the day, Nintendo needs to fix Miitomo...

A little off-topic...

 

[osaka35]

"gamergate" is a solid example of why non-centralized movements can end very poorly. If anyone can claim ownership, then it's as easy to ruin its name as it is to find someone to argue with you on the internet.

I haven't read this person's thesis. I'm going to guess it's full of badness and ill-formed logic, but we'll see.

*edit* oh lawed. Rapp describes the paper as “a journal article arguing that Western pressure on Japan to strengthen its censorship laws regarding media depictions of fictional minors is ethnocentric and a red herring designed to shift the blame for violence against children from governments and other patriarchal power structures to relatively passive media producers and consumers.”

lolpatriarchal power. Beyond the faux feminism, she seems to think the article is saying "yo dawg, japanese loliporn ain't hurtin' nobody, so you stop trying to butt in America by thinking it's the governments fault and focus on all how evil you are for being male".

And she won some best article award for it too.

I don't know if I actually want to read the thing or not.

 

[RustInPeace]

And she won some best article award for it too.

Reminds me of the A I got in 12th grade AP Literature, I basically bullshit my way through an essay about Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. I think the writing prompt had something to do with comparing the monster to Lucifer. At least that's what I went with, pretty much guessing on the Lucifer depiction from Paradise Lost, something I never read, something the teacher never assigned us. She did assign Frankenstein, so there was that. My only knowledge of that piece was/is through the album by Symphony X of the same name. And at the time I didn't even remember the lyrics. But I got a freaking A! My only guess is I just wrote well that time. Or maybe the teacher was high/drunk in grading. The point is maybe she got lucky in the accolades or whatever her paper got. Or whoever judged it, were high/drunk. I'm only speculating.

 

[RemixDeluxe]

Anyone that has found those pics do you mind PMing or at the very least dropping a hint where you found them? googling shows nothing, I'm genuinely curious to know how "lewd" the pictures are.