Female Gamer "Sexually Assaulted" While Playing PS3
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[release][url=http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/97538-Female-Gamer-Sexually-Assaulted-While-Playing-PS3]The roommate of a female player claims that her avatar was "sexually assaulted" while inhabiting the PlayStation 3's free social space, Home.
On December 22, 2009, PlayStation forum member Whoef posted a story describing how his female roommate was harassed while she was participating in the puzzle games associated with Home's Winter Wonderland event. The unnamed harasser followed the woman's avatar around incessantly near the Festive Tree and used the crouch emote, ostensibly to position his avatar near her backside. Whoef claimed that this behavior was sexual in nature and demanded that Home have some way to combat such behavior. An [highlight]Australian[/highlight] newspaper picked up the story today and opined that just because such attacks occurred in a game, that doesn't mean that they aren't real.
"My roommate was sexually assaulted near the Festive Tree while she was helping others with the puzzle," said Whoef in his post. "She would move and the harasser would follow. Each time trying to get behind her and use the crouch gesture. This apparently went on for some time."
He went on:
[quote]If sexual assault and other crimes against users, it seems predominantly against women, is allowed to continue, at the very least Home is going to turn into an all male application. Worse, Home is going to lose a lot of money. Starting right now with my roommate's.[/quote]
She hasn't decided whether she will go back into Home. At this point she is rather disappointed with the whole thing and I don't blame her at all.
Quoted in the January 18th edition of the Daily Telegraph of Australia, Dr. Jessica Wolfendale said that "A lot of people in these games don't draw a strong distinction between the avatar and themselves. When you read accounts of people who are involved with [multiplayer] games, they say things like 'I was hurt' and 'I was insulted' when they are talking about attacks on their avatar." Wolfendale is a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Melbourne's public ethics center.[/url][/release]
ralph pls go
[QUOTE=Swimbound;19715803]ralph pls go[/QUOTE]
no
Also, when is this news? This kind of shit happens all the time.
Hahahaha we do this shit at my friends house all the time, humping people its lolz.
Is this really worthy of news? If this counts as sexual assault, people get sexually assaulted in Counter Strike all the time.
Why was she near a tree at Home? She should have been in the kitchen.
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[QUOTE=Flitchaye;19715824]no
Also, when is this news? This kind of shit happens all the time.[/QUOTE]
the last paragraph does
If i get bored I do this stuff all the time.
Every male gamer has done something like this many times. Even the gay ones.
[QUOTE=Kyle902;19715887]Every male gamer has done something like this many times. Even the gay ones.[/QUOTE]
Its even better to make your avatar a fat guy and go up to people on the ground and do the hip thrust dancing.
She just needs to man up and take it.
oh wait
I got sexually harassed with a rocket launcher on TF2.
Wow, so fucking around on a game isn't suppose to be fun?
Remember girls think the internet is serious business.
I'm going to find this bitch on home and hump her in-game.
If they're trying to make me feel dirty for a gang-teabagging I might have participated in during my Battlefield days, it isn't working. :colbert:
lol aussie news
Goddamit Australia. Also, lol women.
In other news, an Australian man was arrested on terrorism charges after he successfully bombed a de_train.
Does that mean I'm a sexual offender?
[QUOTE=teeheeV2;19716469]Does that mean I'm a sexual offender?[/QUOTE]
Well, are you Australian?
If they stop this in Home there would be no reason to play Home.
Bwahahaha I was doing shit like that when I was on holidays staying at a friends house seeing though I don't have a ps3 myself... Wonder if it was me
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no wait I didn't use the crouch one, I'm safe.
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Her wallet got sexually assaulted when she bought that PS3.
This isn't Australian stupidity or the opinion of all australians, This isn't even Australian law. This is probably a shitty column on a shitty Australian newspaper.
Just for you people who're going to imply it is :downs:
I saw my friends die in Team Fortress 2, does this mean I can charge the killer with murder?
They could fix this if they just made the collision areas for the avatars larger to give them a literal bubble of personal space.
Eh, Home sucks anyway. Hell, I named a space on it, was one of the main people behind VLR in Xi, and was even entrusted with information hacked out of the servers and I think it sucks.
