Sexual harassment in the world of video gaming

[Depicus]

The days of anonymity may be drawing to an end, note the guy who just got two months for racist abuse on Twitter. Be warned if somebody kicks up enough of a stink (as they should) then you will be found and dealt with.

[Crisp]

Whats wrong with trash talking in games? It's normal, just as it is in real life sports. Most normal people know its for fun and giggles, and most online girls i've played with understand this as well.

ha last night in a Bf3 game i was trying to talk crap to someone and they kept defending themselves, lol so that didnt last long.

I think most PC gamers and good sports people understand this, and dont get all butt hurt, if you do get hurt you probably shouldnt interact with people in a competitive atmosphere.

Most American people invite me to their party and tell me to f**k my queen, or make love to my dead mum. Please show me in sports some examples of where the competition says the same thing along them lines...

I've always wondered aswell why the American youth culture insist on slating the Queen when I join their party. I really couldn't careless for her but people from the US seem to think this is a really bad insult, when it's really not.

[Stealthy_Singh]

Whats wrong with trash talking in games? It's normal, just as it is in real life sports. Most normal people know its for fun and giggles, and most online girls i've played with understand this as well.

ha last night in a Bf3 game i was trying to talk crap to someone and they kept defending themselves, lol so that didnt last long.

I think most PC gamers and good sports people understand this, and dont get all butt hurt, if you do get hurt you probably shouldnt interact with people in a competitive atmosphere.

Trash talk is one thing. I take that on the chin. Me and my brothers laugh at a lot of what is said. Seems like the PS3 service doesn't have it as bad as I don't notice half of the stuff I've read about. But some of the things cross the line. When people think up inventive ways to rape you and your family. There's something sick about that. I've never heard a serious sportsman/woman say anything along those lines so giving it a pass isn't right.

[+LightEco Subscriber²]

I'm surprised that this issue is just getting attention now. Even if you are a guy, you are going to get verbally abused online. Its a giant mess full of people who don't care.

Edit: Let me clarify. I'm in no way defending this. I just want to mention that it isn't just females getting abused. Its so bad in some games that I when I play, I don't use a headset and mute all players.

[spaceelf]

Trash talk is one thing. I take that on the chin. Me and my brothers laugh at a lot of what is said. Seems like the PS3 service doesn't have it as bad as I don't notice half of the stuff I've read about. But some of the things cross the line. When people think up inventive ways to rape you and your family. There's something sick about that. I've never heard a serious sportsman/woman say anything along those lines so giving it a pass isn't right.

women deal with a ton of **** we don't when gaming, afaik most of them leave their voice chat disabled for that very reason

I always report people being *******s but that doesn't make it right.

[.Neo]

Every game should come with:

[Xerax]

God, women think they are the only ones that get harassed? Everyone get's harassed for every reason in online gaming, learn to deal with it.

[Charisma Veteran]

I can see both sides of the argument. Yeah, the entire world is too damn sensitive these days and people need to grow up and stop whining every time their feelings get hurt. There is a lot of trash-talking online, in games, even in sports bars during big games, etc and you gotta learn to roll with it, take it and dish it back out. That being said, there is a disproportionate amount of bull**** that goes on in online gaming purely because of a person's gender that is just stupid. randomevent is right, I leave voice chat off most of the time unless I'm playing with a team where we really need to communicate, but I lost count of all the "how big are your ######" and "you're not a girl, you're a 13 year old <term for gay i can't write here>" and plenty worse. I'm old enough and have played online long enough now to where I can just ignore it, but still, it shouldn't be there in the first place.

Bottom line is that people on the internet, online gaming, etc need to stop treating people so vastly differently there than they would in real life. Just because you can't see someone's face doesn't mean they don't have one.

[Geranium_Z__NL]

Ohai, I am the supposed to be hacker of every game you play just because I beat you.

Umad? Sorry that I am better then you. ;p

Yes. I do get harassed like that,, it even gets as bad where I get banned for Suspicion of hacks, because 30 people will say he's hacking. while I'm really just being really good. Can't help it.

as for the whole harassment issue, I think people should treat each other on the internet like they do @ real life... Friendly/Mostly ignore each other.

[zeta_immersion]

I love female players ... so much so, I start flirting and play **** ....

I have nothing against them .... getting owned by a female is awesome ... some males have to much testosterone or , not enough brain to understand females can play too

[SiCKX]

You did not just seriously compare a group of children shouting obscenities into the microphone to slavery or racism?

He has some personal issues that he just had to let out. Probably happens with any sort of discussion.

[Noir Angel]

I like the fact that games like Mass Effect 3, the Left 4 dead series, the Portal games, and so on are starting to bring the image of women gaming into the modern age as the stereotype that gaming is only for overweight male geeks with no life or social skills needs to die. I for one welcome women into gaming and I'm not rude to them.

[Gaffney]

That's probably why you should just stick to party chat when playing COD, Halo isn't so bad and hardly anyone talks on Battlefield 3. It's not a sexist problem Online it's a problem with little kids or idiot young teens. I loved it back in the days of COD4 when it wasn't full of screaming kids, now I'm 21 and COD is full of idiots and I don't even play it any more because my opponents are so rubbish and annoying, hardly meet any good folk on it.

[Stealthy_Singh]

He has some personal issues that he just had to let out. Probably happens with any sort of discussion.

If you read my comment instead of guessing what I meant like the other chap you'd see that's not the case. Sometimes discussing on neowin is pointless as it seems like people just skim posts and don't actually consider what is written and the context.

[Jack 0Neill]

It's funny but the ones who complain about it simply bring it on themselves. "Gamer girls" are literally just attention ######. True girl gamers can roll with the punches just fine.

These are very true:

Girl Gamers 1, NSFW - language.

[redvamp128]

Most of these people being abusive are 12 year old idiots anyhow. From the initial article on BBC I ended up finding the following site:

http://fatuglyorslutty.com/

Check that out and see how many children have some serious issues.! :huh:

You are not kidding--- Like the kid that says he is **** like a chipmunk.

I think that is a put down gone wrong...

http://fatuglyorslut.../01/limitation/

Though remember these good old days???

http://www.britishpa...-name/query/and

[Growled Member]

God, women think they are the only ones that get harassed? Everyone get's harassed for every reason in online gaming, learn to deal with it.

So true. I see a lot of it. It's the Internet and people think they are suppose to do that, I guess.

[*RedBull*]

In that report there is an image on the side:

I can't help but think being in a group called Fat Ugly or Slutty undermines their credibility a little.

fat or ungly, I'd hit it :yes:

[Boz]

We need to have laws that strip anonymity and allow people to go after other people who harass online just like it would happen in real life. Online and internet is now used so much that the same rules we have in real life should apply online as well. You can still have anonymity but if you start harassing and being nasty online a person who feels threatened or any type of behavior that is not acceptable in real life would be enforced online and the anonymity of the person posting stuff online should be disclosed.

Naturally you could never enforce it on EVERYONE but for 90% of the population online it would work great and people would think twice what they post and how it affects other people. That's something internet/online web needs desperately.

With this being said, if you feel someone is being nasty to you or talking trash you just go and mute them. Easily solved. The tools in gaming and consoles are better and better and allow you to report people, to mute them and to ignore them so you don't join games with them in it.

[:: Lyon ::]

Welcome to the world of virtual reality where alpha male ego kicks in.. "I'm better than you" "I know more than you" "If you are better than me then you are a haxxxorr etc etc"