"I am what I am", says the naked Congressman Thomas Stubbs to the Johnny Klebitz - the biker star of The Lost and Damned, the new DLC for Rockstar's GTA IV.
Johnny has already expressed his disgust at the mere sight of the Congressman (Congress, geddit?) naked, post-massage body including - shock horror - the politician's flaccid male member. This, we figure, must make Johnny's life as leader of a hardcore biker gang slightly difficult during the traditional gang-bangs, but that's a matter of narrative.
Yes, a penis in a Grand Theft Auto game! The Internet is currently going bonkers over the mere thought of it. Okay, so it's not erect. But, crikey, it's a penis and that must mean...
Oh, it's Grand Theft Auto for goodness sake. It means that someone at Rockstar has actually pushed a boundary and this time it's one that has surrounded the predominantly male audience that plays its games.
For a series of games that has mostly gained its notoriety from breasts (that's "titties"), beating up women (that's "ho's"), showing three-way lapdance (that's "stripper") action, and a hidden 'Hot Coffee" actual (that's "virtual") sex scene, it's almost refreshing to see the Housers opting to shock their own audience rather than simply doing so to easy targets in Middle England (that's "Middle America").
Nevertheless, this will lead to "Shock", "Fury" and "Outrage" in the right-thinking media. Rockstar will surely be disappointed if it doesn't. Whether the fact that the cutscene also shows a fictional politician commissioning an outlaw to murder a member of the politician's own family will elicit an equally self-righteous response is unlikely.
For those readers not aware of the Stubb's line to Johny, it's one of the key lines from the classic gay musical and movie, La Cage aux Folles.