Power of gamers

Carol Lieberman Is an author. One of her 3 or so books is called "Bad Girls: Why Men Love Them & How Good Girls Can Learn Their Secrets"

She had an interview last month with Fox News where she remarked: "Video games have increasingly, and more brazenly, connected sex and violence in images, actions and words. This has the psychological impact of doubling the excitement, stimulation and incitement to copycat acts. The increase in rapes can be attributed, in large part, to the playing out of such scenes in video games." Apparently this pissed off some gamers for bringing unwanted negative attention to thier hobby.

Dr. Lieberman is now attempting to rectify her relationship with gamers by offering a more detailed explanation of her thoughts to anyone who would take the time to email her. This change of heart was in response to plummeting ratings of her book, "Bad Girls", on Amazon.com.
Plummeting ratings? oh? Let's see... the first six reviews of the book were five stars. Those were January or earlier. On February 8th she got her first one-star review. In the next few days she's gotten 136 one-star reviews from 136 different pissed-off gamers. Even with all of the actual reviews being higher than one star, there are still 136 out of 152 people saying that her book is a piece of garbage and it has a 1.5 star average. Although not hit as hard as this one, her other two books on Amazon are also at 1.5 stars. "Bad Boys" has 53/60 reviews being one star.

I'm thinking any author should think twice before bad-mouthing video games again. Apparently gamers are a little bit more organized than most people think. All this was in response to a new video game called Bulletstorm. Imagine the fallout if someone publicly bad-mouthed WoW. Aside from maybe RL sports or gun enthusiasts, I can't think of another hobby group that it would be stupider to piss off.

Here's a few reviews that caught my eye:
I wouldn't use this a lining for a cage
This is quite possibly the worst book I've ever had the displeasure of reading. It actually made me I'll at the senseless dribble that this author had the audacity to get published. Anyone who has been made to read this travesty should be given their money back and then more for pain and suffering. This book raped my love of books. I'm just going to play some videogames, those are a decent medium of entertainment and knowledge.

It's encouraging to think that an author such as yourself is so dedicated to empowering young women of today to be the whores that everyone knows they really are. Bless you.

Until my choices have a direct negative result on you or your life than leave me and my games alone. (This came from a one-star review that didn't mention a single thing about the book, but which 47 out of 50 found helpful.)

THIS BOOK RAPED ME
I...I bought it a week ago. I thought it would be fun. We were talking, having drinks together...it roofied me. When I woke up, I was chained to the wall, covered in little bits of paper and ink. The book, which had also beaten me and cut off some of my toes, was playing violent video games. IT MADE ME WATCH.

Whichever University gave her a degree needs to hire somebody to steal it back....