"They are almost always justified on dubious cultural or medical grounds"
I won't defend female circumcision, but there is a fairly significant amount of data indicating that male circumcision is beneficial in reducing the spread of HIV/Aids. See WHO and and UNAIDs reports on the subjects. I would hardly call them dubious metical sources. (http://www.who.int/hiv/mediacentre/MCrecommendations_en.pdf)
Regardless of that I find it pretty ridiculous to put the two in the same category. Infibulation, the removal of the clitoris, is an accepted aspect of all FGC. In a game of clitoris, foreskin, scissors clitoris beats foreskin hands down. Equating female and male circumcision is hyperbole at best, and insulting at worst.

Nico416, I didn't say we couldn't talk about it, I was responding to #18 and others who seem to think adults who play these games are defacto insipid monsters, by virtue of their interest. My apologies for lack of clarity.

Jack
First, I did notice your caveat, which was pretty much my point; you admit things are easier then try and make sm rdcls ppst clm. You're the one stretching here, not me.
An second, don't mistake rockstars marketing with my own opinion. I've actually played the fourth game, I made a judgment myself on its content. Tht's bttr thn y cn d. D y jdg vry sql by ts prdcssrs s wll? Yr lck f ntrst n ndrstndng th gm s prtty bvs, bt for the record: not everyone is out to get you, you can do things cooperatively with both computer characters and in multiplayer, and there are rules in the world, a fact referenced in both the story itself and the mechanics of the game.

s 25 yr ld dctd ml fmnst wrkng fr th plc I find the amount of hysteria that these games raise amongst people absolutely ridiculous. I mention my particulars because if these games produce mal-adjusted deviants then I didn't get the memo. I like Rangzen have played all the GTA games, since I was about 15, and I'm about 20% into the fourth game. Firstly, I'm startled by peoples willingness to judge a game with hundreds of hours of content based on 30 second clips of someone else's intentionally outrageous activity. Would you pass such heavy handed moral judgments on a book, a movie, a song you had never read, watched or heard in its entirety? It's somewhat akin to judging a book not by its contents but by the specific offensive words clipped out by someone else. Y knw wht thgh, tht srt f ntllctl lznss mght vn b ccptbl cmprd t th knd f dcy ppl r prtcptng n whn thy jdg ths typ f snd-bx gm, whr wht y chs t d s ntrly YR chc. Further, this whole issue of misogyny and the immorality of the game is again overblown. There are strong female characters (several primary characters including a powerful crime boss) and the prostitutes and strippers and any random character can be armed and respond to violence in kind. There are pedestrians who will immediately come to the aid of anyone in trouble. You are free to choose who you do missions for, whether you kill certain characters and whether you get involved in certain activities. You have a tremendous amount of choice in what you do, and it is that choice which makes the game appealing. It isn't that the game is about killing prostitutes or visiting stripclubs that makes it appealing, it's that those things are possible along with a plethora of other things including: becoming a vigilante, putting out fires, driving ambulance, driving taxi, repossessing vehicles, watching tv, surfing Rockstars own parody of the internet, flying a helicopter, jumping 2 buses on a motorcylce while tossing molotov cocktails at a hummer, play darts, play pool, go bowling, get drunk, rough up criminals, eat a hamburger, buy a nice suit, take a girlfriend out on the boardwalk, watch a really really lame cabaret and comedy club... the list goes on and on. Killing is an integeral game mechanic and sleeping with prostitutes is just window dressing, don't construe the IGN video as some sort of overarching example of the game.
Also, all those who think any adult who plays these games is some sort of social deviant, why dn't y try gttng ff yr hgh hrs. dn't jdg y by yr chc n ntrtnmnt s dn't jdg m.
Jack, if you think R rated movies are harder to get hold of then games you are living in a fantasy realm. The last time I saw a Blockbuster employee card a movie renter they were still renting VHS. It's not a 'psychotic nightmare' and nd f y'd bthr t lrn nythng mr thn wht sm rctnrs fd y y'd knw tht. Y mght ls knw tht thr's plnty f pgnnt strytllng, xcllnt hmr, nd grt ntrtnmnt, bt dn't lt m crck yr rghts lttl snwglb.