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FemDevs # 3 @ WarCry

Posted by Dialogue @ Friday - November 07, 2003 - 14:51 -
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The third in the fascinating series of articles from WarCry examines sexual harrasment in online games.
In modern offices, the term "Sexual Harassment" carries such a weight with Human Resource departments that they commonly have classes to relate the strict definitions of what qualifies as harassment, and how employees are to go about reporting it. In an MMO, players typically outnumber the GMs by the thousands. As compared to a relatively small office space in the real world, the online game environment is wild and dangerous. How do we define Sexual Harassment in an online game? Obviously, the lack of physical contact means that the only damaging actions we're talking about here are language and whatever limited interactive capabilities the developers have added to the avatars. Is bringing this kind of activity to light "playing the victim", or is this a valid complaint?
 
 
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