Notch Tweets Rage Over Minecraft Party Sexual Assault

[Vault101]

"You have a different opinion from me because you are not automatically sympathetic to people that claim to have been sexually assaulted, therefore you should be raped."

Wow, I'm really quite impressed. Hypocritical moralfags usually have much worse spelling than this.

"moralfag"?......

I can't think of any context or use of that word that doesnt make the person using seem like a complete twat/worst person ever

 

[Nami nom noms]

She must be young an innocent still. She's yet to learn the best way to deal with situations like this is to deliver a strong, sharp punch directly down on top of his cock!

I guarantee he will never do that again.

 

[LiquidGrape]

So many new and exciting ways to downplay sexual assault, blame the victim, and show solidarity for a creeper.

Way to go, guys. Fantastic job you're doing, showing how gamer culture totally doesn't have problems with sexism.

It's very true. Self-professed Gamers? never fail to depress me.

Also makes me wonder for how much longer games will be mired in this kind of entitled guy culture. And sadly enough, I suspect it will persist for as long as guy culture is tolerated in any context.

 

[Something Amyss]

I knew it was too much to hope that no one pulled the Double Standard card.

C'Mon, by this point in the thread, we'd already had a "she was asking for it" card on the field.

 

[Chiave]

Wow... I'm totally surprised. Going by the first page I thought this thread was just going to be a sort of mob mentality type of thread, but there's actually a lot of interesting talking points being put forth into this discussion.

Impressive.

 

[Rainboq]

I am getting more and more fed up with the Escapist community with every post about sexual assault getting more jokes than anger in response.

"Then he grabbed my free wrist and put it on his crotch and asked 'Is this big enough?'"

Holy shit, my sides.

Sexual assault is not funny, not in the slightest. If you find it as such, you either have a very very dark sense or you're a mysoginist (if you only view it as funny if the woman is the recipient).

Yes, it's a good thing that political correctness is able to turn back time and undo terrible events. Oh wait.

Seeing as the girl who was assaulted made several jokes on her blog about the incident, you would think that this sort of white-knighting would be unnecessary. But, no, the morality police come out in full force, as usual.

Political correctness has done more than schadenfreude will ever do. And what exactly do you mean by white knighting?

 

[Rainboq]

Sexual assault is not funny, not in the slightest. If you find it as such, you either have a very very dark sense or you're a mysoginist (if you only view it as funny if the woman is the recipient).

Oh I'm sorry, my almighty god of Comedy! Tell me, what else is factually not funny and makes me a bad person if I laugh at it?

It's a pretty sad situation, but what exactly is expected of the guard? Arrest all the Asian men in the area?

The guard could have sealed it, called the party to a halt and had the men form a lineup and have her pick out the guy, or seal the place and call the police. Doing nothing was the absolutely worst thing he could have done.

And not a bad person, just someone with terrible taste.

 

[charge52]

Ah. This thread.
I need to bathe in hand sanitizer burning hydrazine.

I don't think that's safe.

 

[charge52]

Sexual assault is not funny, not in the slightest. If you find it as such, you either have a very very dark sense or you're a mysoginist (if you only view it as funny if the woman is the recipient).

Oh I'm sorry, my almighty god of Comedy! Tell me, what else is factually not funny and makes me a bad person if I laugh at it?

It's a pretty sad situation, but what exactly is expected of the guard? Arrest all the Asian men in the area?

The guard could have sealed it, called the party to a halt and had the men form a lineup and have her pick out the guy, or seal the place and call the police. Doing nothing was the absolutely worst thing he could have done.

And not a bad person, just someone with terrible taste.

You do realize that a security guard does not have the authority to seal Pax for any reason other than murder or terrorist actions right? Even then the only people who really can seal the place is the police. As stated before in the thread, quite a bit of time had passed since the incident, her and her friends were intoxicated, and there was absolutely no evidence. The guard could not do anything, at all. At best he could have told her to file a police report because he didn't have the authority to do anything.

 

[Rainboq]

Sexual assault is not funny, not in the slightest. If you find it as such, you either have a very very dark sense or you're a mysoginist (if you only view it as funny if the woman is the recipient).

Oh I'm sorry, my almighty god of Comedy! Tell me, what else is factually not funny and makes me a bad person if I laugh at it?

It's a pretty sad situation, but what exactly is expected of the guard? Arrest all the Asian men in the area?

The guard could have sealed it, called the party to a halt and had the men form a lineup and have her pick out the guy, or seal the place and call the police. Doing nothing was the absolutely worst thing he could have done.

And not a bad person, just someone with terrible taste.

You do realize that a security guard does not have the authority to seal Pax for any reason other than murder or terrorist actions right? Even then the only people who really can seal the place is the police. As stated before in the thread, quite a bit of time had passed since the incident, her and her friends were intoxicated, and there was absolutely no evidence. The guard could not do anything, at all. At best he could have told her to file a police report because he didn't have the authority to do anything.

It was not at PAX. It was a private party hosted by Mojang, and "We had a sexual assault, so shut up" seems like a good reason to seal the place.

 

[charge52]

Sexual assault is not funny, not in the slightest. If you find it as such, you either have a very very dark sense or you're a mysoginist (if you only view it as funny if the woman is the recipient).

Oh I'm sorry, my almighty god of Comedy! Tell me, what else is factually not funny and makes me a bad person if I laugh at it?

It's a pretty sad situation, but what exactly is expected of the guard? Arrest all the Asian men in the area?

The guard could have sealed it, called the party to a halt and had the men form a lineup and have her pick out the guy, or seal the place and call the police. Doing nothing was the absolutely worst thing he could have done.

And not a bad person, just someone with terrible taste.

You do realize that a security guard does not have the authority to seal Pax for any reason other than murder or terrorist actions right? Even then the only people who really can seal the place is the police. As stated before in the thread, quite a bit of time had passed since the incident, her and her friends were intoxicated, and there was absolutely no evidence. The guard could not do anything, at all. At best he could have told her to file a police report because he didn't have the authority to do anything.

It was not at PAX. It was a private party hosted by Mojang, and "We had a sexual assault, so shut up" seems like a good reason to seal the place.

Read the original post again, "The Minecraft Party that was part of the festivities at PAX Prime". That sounds to me like it was at PAX. Despite what you might think, a security guard cannot seal the place because a group of intoxicated females tell him about sexual assault quite a while after it happened.

 

[Rainboq]

Sexual assault is not funny, not in the slightest. If you find it as such, you either have a very very dark sense or you're a mysoginist (if you only view it as funny if the woman is the recipient).

Oh I'm sorry, my almighty god of Comedy! Tell me, what else is factually not funny and makes me a bad person if I laugh at it?

It's a pretty sad situation, but what exactly is expected of the guard? Arrest all the Asian men in the area?

The guard could have sealed it, called the party to a halt and had the men form a lineup and have her pick out the guy, or seal the place and call the police. Doing nothing was the absolutely worst thing he could have done.

And not a bad person, just someone with terrible taste.

You do realize that a security guard does not have the authority to seal Pax for any reason other than murder or terrorist actions right? Even then the only people who really can seal the place is the police. As stated before in the thread, quite a bit of time had passed since the incident, her and her friends were intoxicated, and there was absolutely no evidence. The guard could not do anything, at all. At best he could have told her to file a police report because he didn't have the authority to do anything.

It was not at PAX. It was a private party hosted by Mojang, and "We had a sexual assault, so shut up" seems like a good reason to seal the place.

Read the original post again, "The Minecraft Party that was part of the festivities at PAX Prime". That sounds to me like it was at PAX. Despite what you might think, a security guard cannot seal the place because a group of intoxicated females tell him about sexual assault quite a while after it happened.

Go read the original story. And yes, yes he could have, because refusing to do so could be considered criminal negligence.

 

[charge52]

Sexual assault is not funny, not in the slightest. If you find it as such, you either have a very very dark sense or you're a mysoginist (if you only view it as funny if the woman is the recipient).

Oh I'm sorry, my almighty god of Comedy! Tell me, what else is factually not funny and makes me a bad person if I laugh at it?

It's a pretty sad situation, but what exactly is expected of the guard? Arrest all the Asian men in the area?

The guard could have sealed it, called the party to a halt and had the men form a lineup and have her pick out the guy, or seal the place and call the police. Doing nothing was the absolutely worst thing he could have done.

And not a bad person, just someone with terrible taste.

You do realize that a security guard does not have the authority to seal Pax for any reason other than murder or terrorist actions right? Even then the only people who really can seal the place is the police. As stated before in the thread, quite a bit of time had passed since the incident, her and her friends were intoxicated, and there was absolutely no evidence. The guard could not do anything, at all. At best he could have told her to file a police report because he didn't have the authority to do anything.

It was not at PAX. It was a private party hosted by Mojang, and "We had a sexual assault, so shut up" seems like a good reason to seal the place.

Read the original post again, "The Minecraft Party that was part of the festivities at PAX Prime". That sounds to me like it was at PAX. Despite what you might think, a security guard cannot seal the place because a group of intoxicated females tell him about sexual assault quite a while after it happened.

Go read the original story. And yes, yes he could have, because refusing to do so could be considered criminal negligence.

Hey look I read it again, it still says it was at PAX. He does not have the authority to seal an entire building of that size after so much time had passed, chances are the offender had already left. He also couldn't have refused, as no one told him to. You know, I may not have gone to law school, but I'm pretty sure it isn't considered criminal negligence if a security guard doesn't do something that he doesn't have the authority to do.

 

[Rainboq]

Sexual assault is not funny, not in the slightest. If you find it as such, you either have a very very dark sense or you're a mysoginist (if you only view it as funny if the woman is the recipient).

Oh I'm sorry, my almighty god of Comedy! Tell me, what else is factually not funny and makes me a bad person if I laugh at it?

It's a pretty sad situation, but what exactly is expected of the guard? Arrest all the Asian men in the area?

The guard could have sealed it, called the party to a halt and had the men form a lineup and have her pick out the guy, or seal the place and call the police. Doing nothing was the absolutely worst thing he could have done.

And not a bad person, just someone with terrible taste.

You do realize that a security guard does not have the authority to seal Pax for any reason other than murder or terrorist actions right? Even then the only people who really can seal the place is the police. As stated before in the thread, quite a bit of time had passed since the incident, her and her friends were intoxicated, and there was absolutely no evidence. The guard could not do anything, at all. At best he could have told her to file a police report because he didn't have the authority to do anything.

It was not at PAX. It was a private party hosted by Mojang, and "We had a sexual assault, so shut up" seems like a good reason to seal the place.

Read the original post again, "The Minecraft Party that was part of the festivities at PAX Prime". That sounds to me like it was at PAX. Despite what you might think, a security guard cannot seal the place because a group of intoxicated females tell him about sexual assault quite a while after it happened.

Go read the original story. And yes, yes he could have, because refusing to do so could be considered criminal negligence.

Hey look I read it again, it still says it was at PAX. He does not have the authority to seal an entire building of that size after so much time had passed, chances are the offender had already left. He also couldn't have refused, as no one told him to. You know, I may not have gone to law school, but I'm pretty sure it isn't considered criminal negligence if a security guard doesn't do something that he doesn't have the authority to do.

Not the article, the original blog post by the woman, it was clearly not part of the official PAX venue. And yes he did have the authority and criminal negligence is defined as failing to act in some way that would prevent a crime or an arrest.

 

[Murmillos]

*sigh* this is not sexual assault, no more then somebody who got caught peeing on the side of a building isa a child molester because a child might have seen his or her "bits".

Unwelcomed inproper sexual contact: yes. Assault , fuck no and it insults all whom are real victims of sexual assault!

 

[Rainboq]

*sigh* this is not sexual assault, no more then somebody who got caught peeing on the side of a building isa a child molester because a child might have seen his or her "bits".

Unwelcomed inproper sexual contact: yes. Assault , fuck no and it insults all whom are real victims of sexual assault!

Technically, groping is classified under sexual assault and is a very mild form of so far as the law is concerned.

 

[charge52]

Sexual assault is not funny, not in the slightest. If you find it as such, you either have a very very dark sense or you're a mysoginist (if you only view it as funny if the woman is the recipient).

Oh I'm sorry, my almighty god of Comedy! Tell me, what else is factually not funny and makes me a bad person if I laugh at it?

It's a pretty sad situation, but what exactly is expected of the guard? Arrest all the Asian men in the area?

The guard could have sealed it, called the party to a halt and had the men form a lineup and have her pick out the guy, or seal the place and call the police. Doing nothing was the absolutely worst thing he could have done.

And not a bad person, just someone with terrible taste.

You do realize that a security guard does not have the authority to seal Pax for any reason other than murder or terrorist actions right? Even then the only people who really can seal the place is the police. As stated before in the thread, quite a bit of time had passed since the incident, her and her friends were intoxicated, and there was absolutely no evidence. The guard could not do anything, at all. At best he could have told her to file a police report because he didn't have the authority to do anything.

It was not at PAX. It was a private party hosted by Mojang, and "We had a sexual assault, so shut up" seems like a good reason to seal the place.

Read the original post again, "The Minecraft Party that was part of the festivities at PAX Prime". That sounds to me like it was at PAX. Despite what you might think, a security guard cannot seal the place because a group of intoxicated females tell him about sexual assault quite a while after it happened.

Go read the original story. And yes, yes he could have, because refusing to do so could be considered criminal negligence.

Hey look I read it again, it still says it was at PAX. He does not have the authority to seal an entire building of that size after so much time had passed, chances are the offender had already left. He also couldn't have refused, as no one told him to. You know, I may not have gone to law school, but I'm pretty sure it isn't considered criminal negligence if a security guard doesn't do something that he doesn't have the authority to do.

Not the article, the original blog post by the woman, it was clearly not part of the official PAX venue. And yes he did have the authority and criminal negligence is defined as failing to act in some way that would prevent a crime or an arrest.

Ah, thank you, I assumed the Escapist would have pointed the fact out in their article at some point. However, the blog also pointed out that she told a guard 30 minutes after it happened, and near the end of the party. The chances the guy was still there was minimal, and there was no point in sealing off a building to catch a guy who is either A. Gone B. Won't be found because the girl might not recognize him since she was intoxicated, or C. Might not have actually done anything. The guard had no evidence other than the word of a drunk party goer. You can't seal off a building with absolutely no evidence that a crime has been committed, at most you can walk around the area making sure it doesn't happen again, or decide to install more cameras. If you can provide me something that says the guard had evidence that would justify the sealing off of the building, than I would really love to hear it.

 

[charge52]

*sigh* this is not sexual assault, no more then somebody who got caught peeing on the side of a building isa a child molester because a child might have seen his or her "bits".

Unwelcomed inproper sexual contact: yes. Assault , fuck no and it insults all whom are real victims of sexual assault!

Actually this is sexual assault, it is a low form and not as bad as Rape, but it still actually counts.