Female Gamer "Sexually Assaulted" While Playing PS3

[CommyGingerbreadMan]

I don't see what the problem is with logging out, seriously just do it for 5 min and there, problem solved. Your getting ragged on by a 10 yr old in CoD, ya mute him. Ignoring someone is the best way to deal with him online. They can't do anything real to you.

Yeah, pretty much. Of course, sometimes it isn't entirely possible to ignore them depending on what they're doing, but logging out/leaving a server is generally a better way to deal with them.

Yea, one time I remember in WoW, since you can add people as a friend w/o their consent, you can also trace wherever they are and when they log on. Well someone did this to some girl and started tailing her everywhere. He was the highest lvl at the time and there was no where he couldn't go. He started telling everyone they were boyfriend and girlfriend and about all the sex they have. She would log off or fly somewhere, but he'd eventually find her again. He never let up. That kind of persistence seems to me the only level of harassment online where someone should step in.

 

[ryai458]

this is retarted if someone is harrassing you just leave and come back later, or maybe she liked it...

 

[FFMattCR]

Ah, so its not fair to say it was really assault...

n00bs that go around doing stuff like that, I mean, hell its annoying, but theres nothing you can really do to stop people acting stupid in games,
I say let them get on with wasting their time, as long as theyre not spamming, insulting or stopping me from doing something (mission or something like that)

 

[Carnagath]

Congratulations, you just let a 9 year old and his chuckling buddy own your mind, you silly, silly girl.

 

[L3m0n_L1m3]

*Facepalm*

Look, this isn't real life. You can turn the game off to prevent this from happening.

 

[Deviluk]

The guy who was doing that is a jerk, and it'd be nice if there was the equivalent of an ignore button, but equating behavior like this to sexual assault is absurd and kind of insulting to people who have actually been victimized. The "roommate" (Yeah, right. You're a dude with a female avatar. It's okay, man) is correct in his assertion that allowing this to continue makes it a less female-friendly environment.

Unfortunately, the argument that Sony is losing money by allowing behavior that discourages females from using Home falls flat. Sony won't lose money because Home is hostile to females. They'll lose money on Home because Home is really stupid.

Just what I was thinking/going to say.

 

[GreyEarth]

Oh FFS !!!

 

[Jay Cee]

I bet the unjustifiably bias Australian media had a fucking field day with that one.

And expecting logical empathic sexual tolerance from the PS3 community?
You don't go to a swimming pool wearing lead trunks.

 

[TheSkaAssassin]

Spoiler

No.

OT: While I get that it was annoying and they guy should have some sort of punishment though Sony for harassment, this is by no means sexual harassment.

 

[Motakikurushi]

Well, she was using Home, so she was asking for it. I don't want to begin to imagine what brainless SONY minions populate that space of the internet. Also, "I cannot bring myself to reach for that ever so distant power button. Must... move... hand... well, I tried."
Well, at least I can use this as more evidence towards why I never go online for that magical moment when somebody asks me.

 

[Cosplay Horatio]

This is a prime example of making mountains out of molehills.

 

[Treblaine]

Same thing happened to me. I'm a guy IRL but I was dumb enough to choose a female avatar just because I wanted something nice to look at. BIG MISTAKE. It wasn't the molesting that was so bad it was the guy who saved me and asked if happened to live in his area! Now that's fucking awkward.

I switched back to a guy but after that Home just became incredibly boring, no one would interact with me or do anything, it basically became a lot like real life.

When it comes to attention you can't have your cake and eat it.

 

[duchaked]

hahaha more or less the first 5-6 comments say it all for me

but wow people are so bizarre

 

[Doug]

It's in

I disagree with this. Your avatar is a digital extension of yourself to be sure but we cant start confering human emotions and capabilities on them, your avatar is no more capable of sexual assault in say Home than he is of murder in an FPS. Griefing has been around for aslong as multiplayer and so long as people can have anonymity and interaction your going to get assholes. So somebody followed her around and made a crouch gesture, to call it sexual assault to me cheapens the term and is an insult to women who have been sexually assaulted. Imagine this woman showed up at a support meeting and claimed there she had been sexually assaulted the people would be disgusted.

As I understand it, it's the room mate who called it assault. I wonder how you all would have reacted had he said 'harassment' rather than 'assault'?

Indeed, I have to agree - assault is too strong a word for what this is; harassment probably fits - I'd be amused if she filed a sexual harassment suite over this and had him done for remote sexual harassment.

 

[MGlBlaze]

I don't see what the problem is with logging out, seriously just do it for 5 min and there, problem solved. Your getting ragged on by a 10 yr old in CoD, ya mute him. Ignoring someone is the best way to deal with him online. They can't do anything real to you.

Yeah, pretty much. Of course, sometimes it isn't entirely possible to ignore them depending on what they're doing, but logging out/leaving a server is generally a better way to deal with them.

Yea, one time I remember in WoW, since you can add people as a friend w/o their consent, you can also trace wherever they are and when they log on. Well someone did this to some girl and started tailing her everywhere. He was the highest lvl at the time and there was no where he couldn't go. He started telling everyone they were boyfriend and girlfriend and about all the sex they have. She would log off or fly somewhere, but he'd eventually find her again. He never let up. That kind of persistence seems to me the only level of harassment online where someone should step in.

Okay, now THAT really needed some intervention. Although I have to say, Blizzard really dropped the ball on the 'no acceptance needed + free tracking' friend system, but that guy was a massive douche-bag. I'd file him under 'reasons why I hate humans'. (Don't read into that last bit, by the way, it's a bit more varied than that. I know some good people.)

Did that ever get sorted out? If not, I'm seriously wondering why not.

 

[Teddy Roosevelt]

What The Fuck. Seriously people, if this is sexual assualt then everyone who's played Halo 3 online has been sexually assualted repeatedly.

Yeah, teabagging. lol

 

[KaiRai]

Does this mean you can sue a guy you don't know for coming up to you in a club and asking for your number?

 

[Akuosa]

I agree that this isn't sexual assault by any stretch of the world, but all this "just log off" attitude worries me. Nobody should have to leave whatever they were doing just because there happen to be an asshole there... is the asshole the one who is at fault here, remember?

Anyway, ignoring people at Home is way too easy, I don't see how anybody can efectively arrass you. It's not like in an online game where they can interfere with your playing, block your path or something like that. You can completely ignore them if they talk to you, and giving that they can touch you... yeah. Just act as if they weren't there and they'll be the ones leaving... as it should be.

 

[PedroSteckecilo]

Does this mean you can sue a guy you don't know for coming up to you in a club and asking for your number?

Yup, it'd be a tough case but it could be considered "sexual harassment" depending on how they asked and how good you are at playing the victim.