Female Gamer "Sexually Assaulted" While Playing PS3

[Wilbot666]

If anything. This has started a heck of a debate. But, my opinion. If you are thinking that an electronic version of "You" is the same as the flesh and blood type. Than you REALLY need to get out more. Or at the very least learn to log off. I mean, REALLY! Sexually assaulted... It's even weirder because it's the roommate and not the girl herself. Which either says, 1) The girl was too traumatized to speak for herself or 2) The girl didn't care half as much as her roommate.

Or the roommate is sweet on the girl and thinks she might sleep with him if he makes a big fuss about her online honour Methinks the girl isn't the only one who needs to get out more....

 

[Hyrulian Hero]

Ok, people that do shit like this are annoying. We've all been teabagged in WoW or Halo. But to claim sexual assault? First off, no one did anything to you! Your avatar is not a real person... you can tell because it popped into existence when you turned on your PS3 and was not born. So it doesn't exactly have rights. In fact, it doesn't even have genitals! So it's pretty hard to sexually harass them... Second, even if they had, your avatar is not you! If your avatar was crying in the shower while deep scrubbing her skin trying to get the dirty feeling to go away (yeah, horrible thing to say, i know) it would not in any way affect you! This is just plain stupid!

 

[Julianking93]

That's the dumbest goddamn thing I've heard this year so far.

Why do people constantly need to complain about something?

 

[lonercs]

It IS funny. Even more so that she blown it out of proportion. What is Sony going to do? Are they going to program a few police avatars to take his ava to Home Jail? In fact that's a good ideal.

 

[ninjajoeman]

this may sound sexist but this is why guys think women shouldn't play video games. Really if a guy has another guy behind him crouch emoting he either
A.Kills him
B.Kills him then teabags him
C.Teamkills him
D.Teamkills him then teabags him
E.Just laughs
F.Cuss em out
G.Cuss him out and A-D
H.rare occasions just leaves.
I.Never calls for sexual harassment.

This chck needs to GTFO, of RL... seriously...

I get

murdered
sexually assalted
harrased
people attempting to murder me
stalked
have war crimes commited against me



And I

murder people
try to murder people
assault people
sexual harrase people "tea bagging"
and commit war crimes




Every single time i play a FPS.... get real

this is on the hour

 

[Shycte]

This is clearly a case of a schildish idiot being a dick to a stupid chick.

Who is the victim? The world who has to hear her tale.

 

[=HCFS=Discoman]

just a person being an annoying jackass and someone who thinks that their avatar is, well, THEM.

 

[Tomster595]

[HEADING=1]NOT THE CROUCH EMOTE![/HEADING]

Seriously, this isn't sexual assault. This is some douchebag being an idiot and thinking that he's funny.

QFT Annoying, but not assault.

 

[RabidusUnus]

Wow. He crouched behind you- your computer generated avatar, to look at your- your computer generator generated avatar's backside. I have been T-bagged in Halo 3, certainly I can sue for that as well?

 

[Nigh Invulnerable]

Doesn't this happen all the time, in most MMOs anyway?

Pfft. Welcome to the Internet.

Also, I teabag all my kills, so I guess I'm a serial rapist.

Serial rapist necrophiliac.

It's an important distinction.

 

[Geoffrey42]

What's funny--and by funny I mean sad--is that this kind of dialog would be the whole thread at one time on these forums: check the discussion around the "Will Bobba for Furni" article, as part of that article was a similar instance of avatar...whatever you want to call it.

I, unfortunately, just waded through this entire thread to see if anyone had linked that article yet, because it was so relevant, and *gasp* mature. For those interested, it is a great article: [a href=http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/issues/issue_101/559-Will-Bobba-for-Furni]Will Bobba for Furni[/a]

One, I agree with the general sentiment that this whole thing is better classified as "harassment" than "assault", but that's just splitting hairs. The larger question is whether this sort of thing matters in the grand scheme, and whether the individual in question is justified in being annoyed/hurt/upset. So, for argument's sake, why don't we ditch the term harassment?

Second, don't confuse the question of "should someone be punished for this?" with the question of "is it valid that someone might be hurt by this?". It is possible for someone to be harassed, and harmed, without their necessarily being criminal culpability on someone else's part. As a mirror to the concept of the victimless crime, I put forth that you can have a criminal-less victim. Whether or not the person in question was harmed has nothing to do with there being no physical damage or interaction, and everything to do with how emotionally invested they were in the situation. This whole "it was all virtual" thing sounds like a sibling saying "I'm not touching you" as a defense for being annoying.

Yes, Sony should've made a better social space, less prone to griefing and harassment. No, we shouldn't just accept that the internet is an evil, griefing-prone, harassment-filled space.

 

[Thyunda]

I dunno what pages 2-4 say, but surely someone else got the impression that'd she'd been raped by the vibrate function on the controller?

 

[lonercs]

A.Kills him
B.Kills him then teabags him
C.Teamkills him
D.Teamkills him then teabags him
E.Just laughs
F.Cuss em out
G.Cuss him out and A-D
H.rare occasions just leaves.
I.Never calls for sexual harassment.

Don't forget J!
J. Join him and hump more people. Home Orgy for the win!

 

[Akai Shizuku]

Doesn't this happen all the time, in most MMOs anyway?

Pfft. Welcome to the Internet.

Also, I teabag all my kills, so I guess I'm a serial rapist.

Serial rapist necrophiliac.

It's an important distinction.

Yes, good point.

I am apparently a serial rapist and a necrophiliac, because I play Call of Duty and happen to find teabagging lulzy.

 

[Glademaster_v1legacy]

Yes it's annoying but it is so stupid I laughed. Does that mean I can sue every user that tea bagged me, used a racial slur, homosexual slur or verbally abused me on the internet? No it's the internet shit happens although what I am saying is a bit extreme it happens so often who cares(obivously stuff like that is bad there is just nothing that can be done about it).

 

[sovietkitty101]

I put my virtual crotch in peoples faces when they are sitting down in Phantasy star, its all just a bit of fun

 

[end_boss]

All I'll say, and I'm sure somebody's probably already said it, is that there's this may be sexual harassment, but not sexual assault.

 

[Raven's Nest]

This is why a 'Stone Cold Stunner' emote is needed...

 

[TheNumber1Zero]

In some areas of the internet I hae roamed that is called Cybering, and is punishable by just leaving.

Some people will whine about anything.

 

[Numb1lp]

Another reason not to use Playstation Home.

That and the fact that there is nothing to do.