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

[Rick Gravrok (rick.gravrok]

In our community in Minnesota (Monterey Cohousing Community) we had this
issue years ago. We decided that video games of any kind were not allowed
in Common Space. Kids could do them in their own homes, but not in the
library where they were doing it, and where little kid could watch. But no
more.

And that’s what happened, no more video games in common space.

Rick

Rick Gravrok
St. Louis Park, MN
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On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 10:51 AM, Joanie Connors <jvcphd [at] gmail.com> wrote:

>
> 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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