On the other hand, none of us would really be surprised if the people trying to defend it virtually aren't predisposed to committing it actually. If it does turn out to be a banable offense, what's the worst that could happen? Will your feelings get hurt because you were shunned and excluded from an online community? I'm sure you'd recover.
On the other hand, none of us would really be surprised if the people trying to defend it virtually aren't predisposed to committing it actually. If it does turn out to be a banable offense, what's the worst that could happen? Will your feelings get hurt because you were shunned and excluded from an online community? I'm sure you'd recover.
I'll just point out that I don't play PvP, it's boring and very broken, I just find the thread one fascinating oxymoron. But I think it's a leap too far for you to insinuate that someone who t-bags another in a game would follow such patterns in real life. You are really only one step away from those people who say that video games make people violent. And we know there's no scientific evidence to back that one up.
People play games as escapism, there really is no scientific evidence at all that suggests the behavious exhibited in games spills over into real life. e.g., I play GTA sometimes, which involves me stealing and smashing up cars and running people down with them. And yet in real life I collect sports cars which I cherish and look after, race to the best of my ability and teach other people to race as well as they can, while also contributing to policy on road safety. Whatever your feelings on in game behaviour, to attempt to equate it to IRL behaviour is really quite deluded.
On the other hand, none of us would really be surprised if the people trying to defend it virtually aren't predisposed to committing it actually. If it does turn out to be a banable offense, what's the worst that could happen? Will your feelings get hurt because you were shunned and excluded from an online community? I'm sure you'd recover.
I'll just point out that I don't play PvP, it's boring and very broken, I just find the thread one fascinating oxymoron. But I think it's a leap too far for you to insinuate that someone who t-bags another in a game would follow such patterns in real life. You are really only one step away from those people who say that video games make people violent. And we know there's no scientific evidence to back that one up.
People play games as escapism, there really is no scientific evidence at all that suggests the behavious exhibited in games spills over into real life. e.g., I play GTA sometimes, which involves me stealing and smashing up cars and running people down with them. And yet in real life I collect sports cars which I cherish and look after, race to the best of my ability and teach other people to race as well as they can, while also contributing to policy on road safety. Whatever your feelings on in game behaviour, to attempt to equate it to IRL behaviour is really quite deluded.
I'm pretty sure that this is almost true, but you have it backwards. There is no evidence that playing violent video games causes people to act violently in real life. This makes sense, since actual violence is very noticeable and easily prosecutable. The same is not necessarily true for sexual violence, I would argue. It's much easier to get away with and many people aren't even aware of all the activities that can constitute sexual assault. In this case, we could consider community silence on unnecessary virtual proxies for sex violence to be a normalizing factor, which can indeed increase the likelihood for problem behavior in real life. The crux comes down to how wildly inappropriate a taboo action is in real life versus the execution of that action in a video game. It's easy to see why someone would be able to keep themselves from murder, as there are harsh penalties and it's hard to get away with. Same for auto theft. Not necessarily true for other crimes that carry a smaller punishment and which are normalized by the community.
On the other hand, none of us would really be surprised if the people trying to defend it virtually aren't predisposed to committing it actually. If it does turn out to be a banable offense, what's the worst that could happen? Will your feelings get hurt because you were shunned and excluded from an online community? I'm sure you'd recover.
I'll just point out that I don't play PvP, it's boring and very broken, I just find the thread one fascinating oxymoron. But I think it's a leap too far for you to insinuate that someone who t-bags another in a game would follow such patterns in real life. You are really only one step away from those people who say that video games make people violent. And we know there's no scientific evidence to back that one up.
People play games as escapism, there really is no scientific evidence at all that suggests the behavious exhibited in games spills over into real life. e.g., I play GTA sometimes, which involves me stealing and smashing up cars and running people down with them. And yet in real life I collect sports cars which I cherish and look after, race to the best of my ability and teach other people to race as well as they can, while also contributing to policy on road safety. Whatever your feelings on in game behaviour, to attempt to equate it to IRL behaviour is really quite deluded.
I'm pretty sure that this is almost true, but you have it backwards. There is no evidence that playing violent video games causes people to act violently in real life. This makes sense, since actual violence is very noticeable and easily prosecutable. The same is not necessarily true for sexual violence, I would argue. It's much easier to get away with and many people aren't even aware of all the activities that can constitute sexual assault. In this case, we could consider community silence on unnecessary virtual proxies for sex violence to be a normalizing factor, which can indeed increase the likelihood for problem behavior in real life. The crux comes down to how wildly inappropriate a taboo action is in real life versus the execution of that action in a video game. It's easy to see why someone would be able to keep themselves from murder, as there are harsh penalties and it's hard to get away with. Same for auto theft. Not necessarily true for other crimes that carry a smaller punishment and which are normalized by the community.
Yes, I do agree IRL sexual violence is a 'silent crime', but I still have trouble equating someone who t-bags a conquest in a game with a real life sexual assaulter. However, I am certainly always open to hearing new ideas and absorbing new information, especially when it comes to the oddness of humans. Do you have any sources/evidence/published theories on this?
Should cover a little bit of everything form normalizing problem behavior to the more specific real-life sexual assault of male-on-male teabagging among a population with high exposure to FPS games that feature teabagging as a casual facet of the culture. More study would be needed, I believe, to see if this exact cognate between online behavior and offline behavior is causative, influential, or just a weirdly poignant coincidence.
Dral_Shady wrote: »Teabags offensive? What else should I store me tea in ?
Should cover a little bit of everything form normalizing problem behavior to the more specific real-life sexual assault of male-on-male teabagging among a population with high exposure to FPS games that feature teabagging as a casual facet of the culture. More study would be needed, I believe, to see if this exact cognate between online behavior and offline behavior is causative, influential, or just a weirdly poignant coincidence.
that was deep, ankle deep...
yeah, just like listening to heavy metal and gangsta rap makes me wanna go out and commit violence, just like reggae music makes me wanna get high, just like listening to sade makes me wanna get freaky...
But thank you to the poster who posted the articles, I will read them, always happy to have my mind changed. But right now I am definitely in the 'grow a thicker skin' camp. And I don't just mean *** skin.
Lava_Croft wrote: »The whole act of shoving your genitalia into someone else's face without consent is highly questionable no matter how you look at it.
If shoving your genitalia into someone else's face is part of making war to you, I don't really know what to say. There's a slew of nice emotes people can use, but for some reason the pubescent boys always seem to prefer shoving their genitalia into your face. I think it's great that they seem to be homosexuals looking for a good time, but this is not way to approach such a situation.Lava_Croft wrote: »The whole act of shoving your genitalia into someone else's face without consent is highly questionable no matter how you look at it.
IRL yes. But we're talking about a game where we shove swords into each other's faces, explicity against consent (we're desperately trying to defend against it, in fact). So the point really would appear to pale into insignificance here. If the game 'Flower Arranging Simulator 2.1' I think the context might be a tad different however.
Lava_Croft wrote: »The whole act of shoving your genitalia into someone else's face without consent is highly questionable no matter how you look at it.
Lava_Croft wrote: »If shoving your genitalia into someone else's face is part of making war to you, I don't really know what to say. There's a slew of nice emotes people can use, but for some reason the pubescent boys always seem to prefer shoving their genitalia into your face. I think it's great that they seem to be homosexuals looking for a good time, but this is not way to approach such a situation.Lava_Croft wrote: »The whole act of shoving your genitalia into someone else's face without consent is highly questionable no matter how you look at it.
IRL yes. But we're talking about a game where we shove swords into each other's faces, explicity against consent (we're desperately trying to defend against it, in fact). So the point really would appear to pale into insignificance here. If the game 'Flower Arranging Simulator 2.1' I think the context might be a tad different however.
Lava_Croft wrote: »If shoving your genitalia into someone else's face is part of making war to you, I don't really know what to say. There's a slew of nice emotes people can use, but for some reason the pubescent boys always seem to prefer shoving their genitalia into your face. I think it's great that they seem to be homosexuals looking for a good time, but this is not way to approach such a situation.Lava_Croft wrote: »The whole act of shoving your genitalia into someone else's face without consent is highly questionable no matter how you look at it.
IRL yes. But we're talking about a game where we shove swords into each other's faces, explicity against consent (we're desperately trying to defend against it, in fact). So the point really would appear to pale into insignificance here. If the game 'Flower Arranging Simulator 2.1' I think the context might be a tad different however.
The act of teabagging is inherently sexual and for every internet psychologist saying A there are many more saying B or C.Lava_Croft wrote: »If shoving your genitalia into someone else's face is part of making war to you, I don't really know what to say. There's a slew of nice emotes people can use, but for some reason the pubescent boys always seem to prefer shoving their genitalia into your face. I think it's great that they seem to be homosexuals looking for a good time, but this is not way to approach such a situation.Lava_Croft wrote: »The whole act of shoving your genitalia into someone else's face without consent is highly questionable no matter how you look at it.
IRL yes. But we're talking about a game where we shove swords into each other's faces, explicity against consent (we're desperately trying to defend against it, in fact). So the point really would appear to pale into insignificance here. If the game 'Flower Arranging Simulator 2.1' I think the context might be a tad different however.
As I say, I do not play PvP in ESO, it's boring and broken and lacks challenge. So it's not part of war to me personally. But, there is no doubt that sexual assault is actually a part of real life war. American soldiers have *** their way around the world in their many illegal and questionable wars, and they are certainly only the most recent perpetrators and certainly will not be the last. But again, that is real life, this is a game.
If you feel there is a correlation between in game behaviour and IRL sexuality, please post your sources, because I have never come across such a thing, and I'm married to one of the most eminent psychologists in the UK. When I read that part of your post out to her just now over morning coffee, she merely snickered, so I am assuming it's not a 'thing' in her field.
Lava_Croft wrote: »The act of teabagging is inherently sexual and for every internet psychologist saying A there are many more saying B or C.Lava_Croft wrote: »If shoving your genitalia into someone else's face is part of making war to you, I don't really know what to say. There's a slew of nice emotes people can use, but for some reason the pubescent boys always seem to prefer shoving their genitalia into your face. I think it's great that they seem to be homosexuals looking for a good time, but this is not way to approach such a situation.Lava_Croft wrote: »The whole act of shoving your genitalia into someone else's face without consent is highly questionable no matter how you look at it.
IRL yes. But we're talking about a game where we shove swords into each other's faces, explicity against consent (we're desperately trying to defend against it, in fact). So the point really would appear to pale into insignificance here. If the game 'Flower Arranging Simulator 2.1' I think the context might be a tad different however.
As I say, I do not play PvP in ESO, it's boring and broken and lacks challenge. So it's not part of war to me personally. But, there is no doubt that sexual assault is actually a part of real life war. American soldiers have *** their way around the world in their many illegal and questionable wars, and they are certainly only the most recent perpetrators and certainly will not be the last. But again, that is real life, this is a game.
If you feel there is a correlation between in game behaviour and IRL sexuality, please post your sources, because I have never come across such a thing, and I'm married to one of the most eminent psychologists in the UK. When I read that part of your post out to her just now over morning coffee, she merely snickered, so I am assuming it's not a 'thing' in her field.
I know the players that teabag me, I know that they are almost exclusively male. If a male shoves his genitalia into my face I can only assume he is a homosexual looking for a good time but going about it the wrong way.Lava_Croft wrote: »Must be great entering discussions without having a clue about the subject matter.Lava_Croft wrote: »The act of teabagging is inherently sexual and for every internet psychologist saying A there are many more saying B or C.Lava_Croft wrote: »If shoving your genitalia into someone else's face is part of making war to you, I don't really know what to say. There's a slew of nice emotes people can use, but for some reason the pubescent boys always seem to prefer shoving their genitalia into your face. I think it's great that they seem to be homosexuals looking for a good time, but this is not way to approach such a situation.Lava_Croft wrote: »The whole act of shoving your genitalia into someone else's face without consent is highly questionable no matter how you look at it.
IRL yes. But we're talking about a game where we shove swords into each other's faces, explicity against consent (we're desperately trying to defend against it, in fact). So the point really would appear to pale into insignificance here. If the game 'Flower Arranging Simulator 2.1' I think the context might be a tad different however.
As I say, I do not play PvP in ESO, it's boring and broken and lacks challenge. So it's not part of war to me personally. But, there is no doubt that sexual assault is actually a part of real life war. American soldiers have *** their way around the world in their many illegal and questionable wars, and they are certainly only the most recent perpetrators and certainly will not be the last. But again, that is real life, this is a game.
If you feel there is a correlation between in game behaviour and IRL sexuality, please post your sources, because I have never come across such a thing, and I'm married to one of the most eminent psychologists in the UK. When I read that part of your post out to her just now over morning coffee, she merely snickered, so I am assuming it's not a 'thing' in her field.
As I say, please quote your sources saying it correlates with sexuality. You made a claim that the perpetrators seem to be homosexuals.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teabagging
I know what Teabagging is. I am asking you to quote your sources saying that the perpetrators must be homosexual.
You seem to be unable to do so.
Lava_Croft wrote: »I know the players that teabag me, I know that they are almost exclusively male. If a male shoves his genitalia into my face I can only assume he is a homosexual looking for a good time but going about it the wrong way.Lava_Croft wrote: »Must be great entering discussions without having a clue about the subject matter.Lava_Croft wrote: »The act of teabagging is inherently sexual and for every internet psychologist saying A there are many more saying B or C.Lava_Croft wrote: »If shoving your genitalia into someone else's face is part of making war to you, I don't really know what to say. There's a slew of nice emotes people can use, but for some reason the pubescent boys always seem to prefer shoving their genitalia into your face. I think it's great that they seem to be homosexuals looking for a good time, but this is not way to approach such a situation.Lava_Croft wrote: »The whole act of shoving your genitalia into someone else's face without consent is highly questionable no matter how you look at it.
IRL yes. But we're talking about a game where we shove swords into each other's faces, explicity against consent (we're desperately trying to defend against it, in fact). So the point really would appear to pale into insignificance here. If the game 'Flower Arranging Simulator 2.1' I think the context might be a tad different however.
As I say, I do not play PvP in ESO, it's boring and broken and lacks challenge. So it's not part of war to me personally. But, there is no doubt that sexual assault is actually a part of real life war. American soldiers have *** their way around the world in their many illegal and questionable wars, and they are certainly only the most recent perpetrators and certainly will not be the last. But again, that is real life, this is a game.
If you feel there is a correlation between in game behaviour and IRL sexuality, please post your sources, because I have never come across such a thing, and I'm married to one of the most eminent psychologists in the UK. When I read that part of your post out to her just now over morning coffee, she merely snickered, so I am assuming it's not a 'thing' in her field.
As I say, please quote your sources saying it correlates with sexuality. You made a claim that the perpetrators seem to be homosexuals.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teabagging
I know what Teabagging is. I am asking you to quote your sources saying that the perpetrators must be homosexual.
You seem to be unable to do so.