Hume Female RSE and Sexual HarassmentFollow

Well I'm female, I play a female Mithra at least in part because I thought she was cute. So if someone says something to me off hand, I don't care. Although that stalking story sounded pretty out of line, I'm glad they called the GM.

The only thing that has freaked me out is someone asked me if I needed money, then told me they'd give me 2,000 gil if I'd talk dirty to them. Okay, that is NOT why I play this game. I told them since my husband was reading this over my shoulder, it probably wouldn't go over too well. They laughed, and fortunatley went away, which was all I wanted. If they had kept bugging me then I would have called the GM.

That's the only bad experience I've had, although I've only been playing a week or so. So far this game seems to have relatively nice people on it.

theirs too much hate for 13/14 year olds in this post, im perfectly confident in my belief that most of those comments come from fully grown if not mature boys over the age of 18 :)

Whmtaru : I was actually commenting about how many of these comments are made TO 13/14 year olds, not that young people are those that are making it. One particular girl who has left the game because of the nonstop following/comments was a 13 year old girl.

As for Ceclix, replying to you isnt worth my breath.

Yeah well that is wrong someone being sexually explicit to a child. Probably criminal too and better off just behaving, if not for good manners and upbringing but from prosecution.

I find many of the attitudes on here very disappointing. Saying that is it just a game to a judge wont get you anywhere. Threaten to kill or rape someone in a game? Guess what? Just as illegal in real life as is sexual harassment. The teenage attitudes that are summed up nicely by Cecilxs blatently ignorant statements are a result of parents who say little Jimmy is a good boy cause he plays in his room all day on his PC and doesnt do bad things. The bad thing here is that parents arent taking little Jimmy out into the real world to teach them proper etiquet. Perhaps if people started calling the police when they were threatened or harassed they would start to get the message. In fact, until they are beat about the head with the legal bat they may not get the message.

Edited, Wed Jan 21 06:17:49 2004 by NotCoach

Amen to that.

While I personaly would not request somthing like this (unless i knew the person) for the fear that it was a guy playing the character, and because i need a new set of armor in the next few levels. Its a great idea and would be very amusing to see.

Best wishes and good luck with your fund raising! =)


And to the guy who was having a go at my spelling. Im fully aware that my spelling is hopless, however my post was intended for a particular audience, and that particular audance realises that it is the meanings associated with the words that are important, not the words them selves. Its a matter of seeing the forest from the trees.

Edited, Wed Jan 21 08:41:59 2004 by Abyssus

whos talking about rape???? who in the world threatened to kill???? what in gods name are you reading??

gg dude. you still have your crown on these forums as the king of attention ***** trolls.

(sorry for feeding the trolls)

and obviously you cannot understand that this IS just a game. no where in my posts did I say this was about real life. in fact that was my point, that his is NOT real life and just a game. yet you posted some nonsense about rape and killing people in real life.

you're a spinner dude.

troll on.

You tell me how talking to real people is not real life? Go on deluding yourself about how "its just a game so acting like a sexual predator is ok" and youll be in for a rude awakaning one of these days. And im not spinning anything nimrodx. Sexual crimes run the gambit of simple harassment to rape. People have been thretened with rape before in games like these and the person making the threats probably think along the same lines you do. The simple fact is this. One of these days someone is going to sue a company over these issues and win. Then all gaming companies will crack down hard on the "its just a game" idiots. If you cant understand how interacting with people no matter the medium is still governed by the same rules as everywhere else then you have serious issues.

acting like a sexual preditor?

dude with your extremist views are exactly what I am talking about. people like you are trouble makes plain and simple. if you take a joke in a video game and turn it into a lawsuit you need medication.

you are talking to real people in a fake world, making jokes about fake characters in a fake world does not make you a rapist you or killer and is not grounds for a lawsuit. we are not talking about the people playing these characters, we are not talking about death threats, we are takling about commenting on a computer characters clothing. if you are threatened or hurt by a comment on your computer characters clothing you need stop playing the game so much and go outside,and in your case seek professional help.

wisen up moron.

Edited, Wed Jan 21 09:29:58 2004 by Cecilx

Ok, before I begin I would like to point out that i in no manner shape or form advocate physical or verbal abuse in Real Life.


I have threatened to kill many people in a game. Infact i have threatened to kill my father, a number of good friends and even people i do not know. This may sound outragious to you, but it is common place for majority of the gaming community. When you are playing games such as Quake, the goal of the game is to kill the opposing people as many times as you can.
Infact in FFXI we all discuss killing things for our own personal benifet openly. How can you say that threatening to kill somthing is ultimatly wrong, when you go around in game killing sproutlings and such?
Even more worrying is, what are you going to do when PvP is implimented? are you going to file a lawsuit against SquareE for facilitating mass murders?
My point is that it is the meaning behind the words in conjunction with the context they are used that determines how appropiate they are.
The argument here is that sexual inuendo within a online game enviorment is acceptiable because there is no chance of phyisicial violation. And with this I agree.
However i do not agree nor condone verbal abuse in online games because the associated impact is the same, where as with sexual inuendo, it is not. Needless to say the two are quite differant and should be treated as such.



While i do not agree with the tone he has taken in his replies, he dose indirectly raise a good point. I do not feel it is good to attack him in the manner you have done in order to discredit his statments.
I assume his point is that you have gone off on a tangent and attempted to draw on topics unassociated and out of the context of what we are discussing. And with this I agree.


To conclude, you are drawing on situations outside the context of an online game causing your statments to have no direct relivance to this conversation.

If you wish to link your statments and put them within the context of that which we are speaking, that would be good.

Thanks.

Edited, Wed Jan 21 09:42:34 2004 by Abyssus

Cecil I find your character very sexy, haha, yes I know ur a male character but he has the cutest butt haha. By the way I am almost to lvl 18 (should get close today. So maybe thursday or friday I could get some help in getting the worm and skull. I already have the apron. I will hit u up tonight if your on.

haha people take this game way to serious IMO, remember its a game.