14 DAY TRIAL // This whole Fox News vs Video Games scandal started when the news network made some rubbish reports regarding Mass Effects and its pornography - everything by some folks that have never played the game. EA Sports issued a response, Fox responded to EA's response since all these happened and gamers all over the world searched for revenge on Amazon.
Cooper Lawrence, psychologist and author, was the one who said some crazy things about the game: "Here's how they're seeing women: They're seeing them as these objects of desire, as these, you know, hot bodies. They don't show women as being valued for anything other than their sexuality. And it's a man in this game deciding how many women he wants to be with." She had no idea, of course, that gamers can choose to play as a female character. Whatever. The fact is that she was the one that met the fury of the gamers: she had over 400 one-star ratings on the Amazon for her book "The Cult of Perfection: Making Peace With Your Inner Overachiever", and over 900 "ignorant" tags. This means that her book dropped to be the 346,106th best-selling book on Amazon.
What happens when your books start to receive the same treatment you have applied to some video games? Well, according to Cooper Lawrence, it's time to say "sorry". So, in an interview with New York Times, she admitted that she did a mistake when she said crap about the game without having any idea what it is about. So she took about two and a half hours from her time and took a look at the game. This is what she said afterwards:
"I recognize that I misspoke," she said. "I really regret saying that, and now that I've seen the game and seen the sex scenes it's kind of a joke. Before the show I had asked somebody about what they had heard, and they had said it's like pornography," she added. "But it's not like pornography. I've seen episodes of 'Lost' that are more sexually explicit."
At least this is a leap forward. Cooper Lawrence will now keep her eyes open and she will probably stop talking when she has no idea what she's talking about. Hopefully, there will be no other people to take her place and do what she did with Mass Effect. Anyway, apologies accepted, Mrs. Lawrence!