So, Grendel, is someone writing an anonymous letter to the newspaper, writing about how he feels all woman need to be completely submissive to men, and how any woman seen outside their homes without their man deserve to be beaten and ******, not considered to be harassing women? Is he not a threat to us? Are woman supposed to just not read the paper or look the other way?

What about a guy calling a woman's home, and threatening her sexually that way? Is she supposed to just hang up every time he calls, threatening her with harm?

Neither of these cases are a man saying these things face-to-face to a woman, but are they to be tolerated? If you don't think I've heard some absolutely sick things guys want to do to me online, you're only kidding yourself; to say that I should ignore this means you are part of the problem.

So you seem to have a very narrow view of harassment. However, I took part of your advice, and wiki'd harassment, and this is the defintion I got: "Harassment is commonly understood as behaviour intended to disturb or upset, and it is characteristically repetitive. In the legal sense, it is intentional behaviour which is found threatening or disturbing." Nowhere here is there anything that says harassment can take place only in face-to-face situations. Internet-bullying is entirely possible as seen in this case here.

It seems I have to repeat myself one more time. Am I saying all men are harassers? No. Am I saying all women are innocent? Also no. But there IS a culture on the internet of men harassing women, sexually or otherwise. As I've said before, all this is doing is harming DUST by driving away a significant potential player base (30% of gamers are women older than 18) because some people can't get their heads out of their collective asses. The best way to combat the unstated truth of female harassment in online games is to empower not just women, but all players with the knowledge that they can quickly and easy submit their grievances to CCP, and that those submitions will be seriously considered.

It's very, very easy for someone who has never experienced harassment, especially a man who has not, to claim that there is no problem, or that the problem can be easily dealt with through things like "only squadding with certain people," "voice changing," or "turning off the microphone." But these don't solve the real issue. Instead of telling women to "get over it" or "HTFU" or blaming them for their own victimization, think about what you, personally, can do to make them feel welcome on DUST. And this should extend to all players, because whether you admit it or not the more people playing DUST the better for everyone.

Its sad, really sad, that Grendel thinks harassment is perfectly fine.

In a way, he's like those people who blame a woman for being ******; "she should have not been in that place at that time", "she should not have worn that outfit", "she should have fought back" and all those other absolutely BS "excuses" for the villain.

Makes me sick that these people are still accepted in today's society. They'd chance their tunes very quickly if something comparable happened to them, and they got no support or care.