Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: violent video games in CH

[Joanie Connors (jvcphd]

I think these games are age restricted, so if children are participating,
then the teens are not being responsible users.

Hope this might help!

On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 10:13 AM Lynn Nadeau / Maraiah <welcome [at] 
olympus.net>
wrote:

>
> We have a small number of young teens who want to watch
> atrociously-violent first-person-shooter video games like Black Ops in the
> Common House. The media room has a windowed door and is right off the entry
> hall, so nearly every user of the common house passes by. Sometimes the
> viewing is accompanied by vulgar shouts.
>
> Not only does the gore turn the stomachs of adult passers-by, but our
> demographic has recently shifted to include a number of 3-9 year-olds
> (whose families don't allow their kids more than the smallest bit of --tame
> -- screen time of any sort). But a proposal to disallow video games in the
> CH has met with several people making a moral uproar about censorship,
> freedom, the need [sic] for boys to express their "thirst" for violence,
> and analogies to their own innocuous childhood play of cops and robbers. I
> wonder if  other groups have dealt with this? One possibility would be to
> only allow it after younger children's bedtime, but I'm not sure that would
> fly.
>
> To me this is a no-brainer: something nobody "needs" to do, that disturbs
> a number of others, seems like we shouldn't do it. But I discover I'm
> vociferously disagreed with. Any great creative solutions out there?
>
> Maraiah Lynn Nadeau
> RoseWind Cohousing, Port Townsend WA
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