Sunday, September 19, 2010

Sexual harassment for female players in starcraft2 thread

While reading this article, I was pretty shocked at comments on female’s post in game website. Lots of insulting words, sexual harassments were written without being punished.  
http://thehathorlegacy.com/sexual-harassment-for-female-players-in-starcraft2-thread/   
Here’s the link you can find the article about the female’s post in the game website
Female gamer asks if there is women-only clan in Starcraft 2 on game forum. The first two responses were not what she wanted.  In those responses, people actually want to see the real picture, not a fake one. Ironically, when I entered the game forum website, and saw the picture, I realized that the picture was abused. The female in the picture is one of most popular pro-gamers in E-sports in Asia, but not well known for American gamers.  The next responses were still offensive, and rude to female players. Something wrong was going on with sexual discrimination in the game forum.
The writer said “Women are even advised not to tell they are females if they want to avoid harassment” it is true that generally, male plays game more often than a female, but this doesn’t mean that female needs not to mention that they are female while playing game. He also suggests that there must be specific law enforcement for this kind of problem.  As you can see the post below written by Jin-Hyuk Bahk, Key-Board Warrior would be very harmful to those who play games, and its matter of time that it will causes chaos to game social network, or communities.
For resolving the problem, we better focus on the nature of the problem. Since netizens (combination words from network, and citizens) are allowed to use the freedom of speech on internet forum, they can write what they want no matter what it will cause. Consequently, this would bring us a juggernaut, we need to prevent the chaos. The first option that writer recommended is to use the RealID that people use when they play in Battle.net (space allows gamers to play online with other people) when they use the forum. Many of gamers are concerned with their reputation of REALID. Therefore, it will help them stop writing insulting words, and sexual harassment or they ruin their reputation.  I look forward to that Female players take pleasure in playing game without being insulted by this suggestion, or any other law enforcement in the future.  
What do you think of this sexual harassment? and do you have any suggestion that would stop it?

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