One of the great things about living in Utah is the seemingly endless supply of fucked up bullshit! This morning my boyfriend sent me a link to this blog post about a “study” Brigham Young University completed.
The study followed 500 female and 313 male US undergraduate college students. They found:
“Young men were also more likely to use the Internet for entertainment, daily headline news, and pornography, while young women more often used the Internet for email and schoolwork.”
Also:
“However, regardless of gender, clear correlations were seen between frequent gaming and more frequent alcohol and drug use and lower quality personal relationships, as well as more frequent violent gaming and a greater number of sexual partners and low quality personal relationships.”
Low quality personal relationships? According to whom?! Talk about a worthless study! I wonder if they took into account the average age of their participants was 20 years of age? Frequent alcohol and drug use? Greater number of sexual partners? In the real world, we call that COLLEGE. Add to that: they are giving poor nerdy gamers everywhere false hope about all the pussy they’ll be scoring while they’re making Gears of War scream their name. Yikes.
It’s a good thing Brigham Young University isn’t doing anything WORTHWHILE with their time and money. I am grateful they’re not using my tax dollars, though it does chap my hide the LDS church (ahem, my childhood cult) got 10% of my babysitting money until I wised up and left around the same time babysitting was no longer my main source of income.
I am having an angry day. But seriously, you should go read the linked blog post and article. They are both jewels!
“Add to that: they are giving poor nerdy gamers everywhere false hope about all the pussy they’ll be scoring while they’re making Gears of War scream their name.”
HA! Exactly what I was thinking when I read the excerpt.
I’m definitely skeptical of any “study” carried out by a biased organization. And I thought it was the professors, athletes and LUGs who were getting all the pussy.
I liked this part: “The investigators linked similar negative outcomes with Internet use for chat rooms, shopping, entertainment, and pornography, but a contrasting “plethora of positive outcomes” with Internet use for schoolwork.”
Entertainment? See, blogs are a scourge on humanity. Thanks for leading all of us to drugs and a greater number of sex partners.
Cold, scientific evidence to support the fact that the skanks at the bar go nuts when I start regaling them with stories of my Horde Mode conquests.
I call BULLSHIT on that whole article. Girls don’t use their computers for porn? Just e-mail and schoolwork? What the fuck?
Please. What kind of world does BYU live in? Certainly not the same one I live in.
Oh, that’s right. BYU is in Provo. I guess that is a different world.
Personally, I don’t know any girls that haven’t looked at porn on the computer. I mean, isn’t that why the Internet was invented to begin with?
And if video games increase the number of sexual partners, than I’m on my way to the store right now to pick up as many as I can afford.
You’re allowed an angry day. Go play some violent video games to release some anger!
Dammit! I worked so hard and long to get to be a level 60 Warlock for nothing! Time to delete “Carnage the Magnificent”, get rid of all that beer and find some offline babes.
I had a co-worker ask me about where her daughter should live if her son-in-law’s job moves to Utah. I said “Virginia”.
God, I am so glad to be out of that place. It made my stomach churn just thinking about it.
SM,
I should write BYU a thank you note for funding such a ridiculous/entertaining study.
J.,
Samesies!
Erin,
I heart biased entertainment!
zymase,
It’s a good thing I wrangled you in before you used your nerd cred charm on the bitches from across the hall at Skanks Inc.!
sov ,
Even the Avenue Q puppets know the internet is for porn!
sdragoc,
Mike set me up with Katamari Demacy…it saved my fucking life. AND it was fun! Then I did some retail therapy. I love you, I wish we were a little bit closer. xoxo
Scott,
If you’re a level 60 Warlock, according to the study, the babes will just come to you. Low quality personal relationships, here you come!
foundinidaho,
Virginia? HA!
Ha, I love the gears of war pussy line. Brilliant!
My boyfriend only gets pussy when he pays for my LotRO subscription.
If it wasn’t for low quality personal relationships I’d have no personal relationships.
Man. You hold out the cup of hope only to dash it from our lips as we lean forward to take a sip. I hope you’re happy now!
OMG, I was sitting there thinking really? All the gamer guys I ever knew had zero chance of ever scoring with a real girl. Maybe they could hook up with their World of Warcraft fake girlfriend, but that’s about it. I just mailed you a valentine. I put one in for Mr. Pants too.
Yeah, I agree, it’s not fair to be telling video game nerds that they’ll get more sex if they play more video games. That’s just cruel.
I was thinking along the lines of Apollo Creed.