Scribbenauts And I Disagree On Key Cultural Ideas
I bought Scribblenauts for my girlfriend yesterday. It’s a pretty dope puzzle game, and I knew she’d like it. I watched her play it for a bit, and it seems fun enough. But then I came to a pretty big disagreement with the game over the concept of vulgarity and what constitutes it.
Caffeine: Do you think you can use a dildo in the game? Or is that vulguar?
Note how I even have to ask this.
Far Too Patient Girlfriend: I’m pretty sure that’s vulgar.
Insert some serious silence while I ponder.
Caffeine: Really? Like…really?
I again doze off into rumination.
Far Too Patient Girlfriend: It’s a dildo.
Caffeine: Yeah, exactly! I mean, it’s a device that brings pleasure. How is that vulgar?
Sorry Scribblenauts, we’re going to have to agree to disagree. Apparently you’re like everyone else in this boring Puritanical country. I mean, I should have known we’d part ways. I’m the same guy that finds it completely acceptable to discuss bowel movements and masturbation at the dinner table with my eighty-seven year-old Nana. I mean, c’mon! It’s just a beautiful scientific discovery we’ve fashioned to give women and me pleasure. It’s not vulgar, it’s beautiful.