Cooper Lawrence defends her statements on Fox News |
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Psychology expert Cooper Lawrence, now well-known across the Internet after she appeared on Fox News' Live Desk With Martha MacCallum segment, recently explained why she "misspoke" about Electronic Arts and BioWare's Microsoft Xbox 360 video game Mass Effect's sex scene. She's still not happy with the nature of the game, but shed light on a few things.After offended gamers fired back by spamming her book - The Cult of Perfection: Making Peace With Your Inner Overachiever - on Amazon with negative reviews, Lawrence admitted Mass Effect is not like pornography. To further clarify her stand on the matter, she told MTV News:
In hindsight, I would have liked to have had the opportunity to play this game before appearing on the program. As a developmental-psychology expert, I was asked to appear on this particular show to discuss the broader issue of video games and their impact on developing adolescents, not as an expert on Mass Effect.
However, the only statement Lawrence took back was the one about Mass Effect involving a man who can decide how many women he wants to be with. "I firmly stand by the research I cited that violence and sexual content in video games has a desensitizing effect on young developing minds," she said.
Via MTV News
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"As a developmental-psychology expert, I was asked to appear on this particular show to discuss the broader issue of video games and their impact on developing adolescents, not as an expert on Mass Effect."
I'm calling BS, she seemed happy to talk about Mass Effect in specific and now she's just covering her trails. She knew they were going to talk about ME, and if she wanted, by all means she could've gone and done at least a wee bit of research before embarrassing herself
Fox News' "experts" are such nonsense-slingers. What sort of professional calls her debate opponent "darlin'"?
I thinking about spamming the living crap out of her book.