Comments on: Experience may change during play

By: Scott

Scott — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 14:20:32 +0000

“Evil prospers when good men do nothing” and “Consent by Silence” I think sums up the problem.
And I don’t really mean us, the players, I mean Blizz.
We can call out the trolls and deride their behaviour but for the most part it just feeds them.
Blizz needs to stop ignoring the problem and start taking action with temporary and permanent bans.
I gender bend with my my toons and about half of them are female and I’m constantly dismayed at the comments I get directed at me and the emotes coming my way when I play a female toon. So I think while guys do get some grief it’s way worse for the girls.

By: hibbynana

hibbynana — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 05:53:02 +0000

this is great

By: ironyca

ironyca — Sat, 07 Jul 2012 10:28:29 +0000

I think you are right that a lot of us overlook what actually is happening, that it’s not just a regular neutral attack, but based on a contempt that comes from wider society.

As you also noted, the harassment towards men definitely exist, it just looks different, I suspect it’s ALL about homophobia.

Your post has this mulling over what you could have done differently, and as you conclude, the implications mean that we need protection and can’t go certain places or we’ll risk harassment. We might as well stop playing WoW then. Moving down that path is in a way buying into half the argument, that the victim needs to “cater” less to harassers, and if they fail to, well, they had it coming. I think we all need to shift the focus more on the attacker than the victim.

“The bad is just flotsam floating in a sea of goodness” – I agree and I believe one of the ways out of this mess, is for more of the goodness to call out the bad for what it is.