Female Gamer "Sexually Assaulted" While Playing PS3

[GloatingSwine]

b) He was probably doing it for the same reason people teabag in games:

ITS FUNNY.

If you're 14 and have realised that you'll never actually know the touch of a woman, maybe

 

[mr.aravaro]

How slow a day does it have to be to put this in the news

 

[AndyFromMonday]

"Help! Somebody did an emote on my ONLINE AVATAR! which looks sexual! I've been assaulted! POLICE!"

Now, lady who I suddenly despise for being stupid, you should realize that you weren't PHYSICALLY harassed. There's a difference between shit happening on the internet and shit happening IN REAL LIFE. What happened online in no way affects your well being. As such, you were not sexually harassed and you're just plain crying for attention right now.

Now, obviously, when someone makes a threat that he/she will kill you/rape you that is to be taken seriously BUT when a moron decides to do something moronic in a place where it cannot affect anyone else physically or mentally, that cannot be considered harassment.

I wonder what an actual sexual assault victim would say to all this?

Spoiler: Probably this:

 

[Aesir23]

All I can think in relation to this is "So?"

It was only the internet so at best, it's just an annoyance, not some traumatizing event.

Plus, it's not exactly an uncommon occurrence if you play a female character on any sort of online service.

 

[Jared]

Meh, it's called logging out. Not that hard to do. Home sucks anyway.

Seriously...some people need to get over themselves...

 

[Rhade]

I'm guessing she also doesn't describe any of her IRL sexual encounters (if any) as voluntary based on her attitude and naive headspace regarding dat dem der intarnets...

 

[Corpse XxX]

He crouched!
Then followed her?
How awful!
Where?
A game??
Really?
And this is a huge problem because....
Oh get over it.

Spot on! Stories like this makes me laugh so hard.. Its just a frikkin game.. Makes me wonder what kind of idiots that are actually offended by such things..

 

[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.

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.

It did, but i remember it not being fair, like they told her they'd give her a free server transfer. So aka she had to go somewhere else while this guy was let off scott free.

 

[AWAR]

OMG ARE THESE PEOPLE FOR REAL?
iTS LIKE CALLING FOX NEWS AND SAYING I WAS VERBALLY ASSAULTED IN XBOX LIVE !

 

[MinishArcticFox]

I'm pretty sure that one you could just log out and move on with your life, and that if I followed someone around using the "crouch emote" in real life I wouldn't be arressted for sexual assult.

 

[katsabas]

Ahem, facepalm'd.

Oh noes! My virtual ass got virtually licked! What should I do? Give Atkinson more weapons maybe because I am not a retard and I do not play a game that sucks.

Looks like that this chick was under an umbrella when it was raining brains. What happened to the magic option of QUITTING THE GAME? Other people get sexually assaulted for real and she complains about getting teabagged in the ass on the net. Reminds me of that recent mother that got scarred for life because she saw her kid holding a DS.

 

[Undercover]

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

I could't have said it better myself. If you've been pwned & teabagged in a game, well there you go.

I don't know what bothers me more, the fact that this woman claims that some dickhead "crouching" behind her is some sort of assault, or the fact that this was picked up as a legitimate news story.

 

[Zildjin81]

So, video games are real now? Oh god... all of the people I killed.. I... I didn't know

 

[Pendragon9]

Yeesh. Ease up lady. i don't throw a fit when someone steals my mineral patches in Starcraft.

yes, I actually blow up their base and nuke their SCVs, but that's not the point. We can't be confusing real life with a virtual one. or do you want Jack Thompson all over this?

 

[Undercover]

He crouched!
Then followed her?
How awful!
Where?
A game??
Really?
And this is a huge problem because....
Oh get over it.

Spot on! Stories like this makes me laugh so hard.. Its just a frikkin game.. Makes me wonder what kind of idiots that are actually offended by such things..

The answer is right in the story: Dr. Jessica Wolfendale said that A lot of people in these games don't draw a strong distinction between the avatar and themselves.

And yes they're idiots, and yes they take this shite WAY too seriously. I hope this doesn't get blown any more out of proportion, the last thing we need is a "digital nanny state" where everything you do is scrutinized by the online morality police.

"Wait, did that male avatar just... CROUCH behind that female avatar? BANNED FOR LIFE! What? Oh, that 'female' avatar was really a 17 year old boy? Uh, BANNED FOR LIFE!"

 

[Lyri]

This is insulting to all the victims of sexual assault, lets be honest here.

 

[Insideout Ink Demon]

If this gains any credibility, it trivialises what women who've gone through real sexual assault/rape have endured.

For that reason alone Whoef and his room mate knock me sick

 

[Supreme Unleaded]

Oh No, someones sexually assulting me, i can't just turn off the system or anything.