The reason you see less of it is one, a lot of us tend to play male characters to get away from that harassment. Since there is a lot of men you can't keep their mind out of the gutter, we play as men characters and act like it. we are automatically treated as equals. Its kinda sad, but that is how things tend to flow in the game world. I mean its not like we get the same pleasure out of staring at man's ass in a mmo like a man does playing a female character.

Petition system works wonders. Email [email protected] or play with friends in squad and never hear those people again. Recording them also is a good way to document the harassment, but you'll always have it in games like this. You have no idea how COD and BF3 are...

Oh noe's. You sound like you've never played an online game before. Everyone goes ape sh** when they hear a girl on the mic.

Oh noe's. You sound like you've never played an online game before. Everyone goes ape sh** when they hear a girl on the mic. And you making a big deal over it is not the best way to go about it. There is a block function, and a mute option. And getting irritated because some people are "hounding" you is a bit ridiculous... especially when everyone is stuck on the bridge without a choice anyway.

And there is always those people who are just ingrates, or annoying in general. Mute/block them.

I get "hounded" because i have Primordial militia gear. You don't see me posting a thread whining about all the people grinding on my suit trying to get the camera in my dudes crotch.


Please, grow up and enjoy the game for the love of god and all that is holy.

You're honestly just part of the problem.

"There's nothing wrong with getting lewd comments thrown at you and being harassed for something you cannot control. Just shut up and deal with it"

No. There is no reason for anyone to do that, and the guys that do (and those that defend them) are absolute scum.

I wonder when our society actually goes beyond this crap.

+1 but that is why I have been playing solo with out a mic squad, to avoid those idiots. It is hard enough having people hover around you in heavy suits and such while you are reading the line up in the waiting room; I don't need to hear them go through puberty at the same time. I get enough of that being on ps home.

I have cleaned up some inappropriate remarks in this thread.

Additionally, harassment of people based on their gender (or sexuality, or race, or religion, or anything of that nature) absolutely will not be tolerated. An e-mail to [email protected] will eventually will be looked at by our game masters and dealt with appropriately.

No offense, its easy for a guy to dress up in a girls suit and claim someone else has been harassing them. You need a better way than just taking the word of someone saying someone harassed them.

They have chat logs. And if it's over a mic they will probably just record the situation on that players record, and if it occurs multiple times act on it. Though, they can easily record mic conversations too - it's over their servers.

And I hope that anyone caught harassing any player is permabanned with no warning. I'm personally sick of this behavior still existing in the gaming community and it will continue to exist until someone (come on CCP) responds with bans and not slaps on the wrist for such disgusting behavior and we as a community don't stay quiet but speak up for the poor person being harassed.

Real men treat women with respect. It's little boys who pick on them and treat them like this...

Careful about making your own decisions that are based upon arbitrary understandings and assumptions. And this is not to say that your statement about not accepting that behavior is not on point, at least in my eyes. Yet the language you used to describe the purported assailant only perpetuates the cycle of attacking and staunchly defending ones actions, no matter how socially and universally out of tune and balance they are.

Throw discriminatory behavior at someone, don't be surprised if you get it back.

Just my 0.02 ISK, and an observation.

Only by actively addressing the issue at hand can you hope to produce the change that you seek, primarily through discussion and the development of understanding. Being passive on the mic and not airing the issue as it occurs, you can not hope to address the issue at the source of its occurrence.

I'd like to just take a moment to remind you that you are not really the person you see on your screen when playing this game. Neither are you really on a warbarge about to attack a planet with immortal clones. You are actually playing a game, which by its very definition tends to attract children or adults with a childlike disposition.

I can assure you that your terrible suffrage at the hands of people who are not actually there with you and cannot actually do anything relevant to you, does not warrant the title of 'harassment'.

*snipped sexist and political language* - CCP Eterne

Hey, people follow me around on the bridge because of my username, wheres my report button?

People following you around happens very often on the bridge, most people do it out of boredom.

Although people saying stuff that may be sexist or count as harrassment does need to be reported and acted upon, but seriously, people following you around on the bridge? Thats been happening to me since early Beta and I dont have a female character nor am I female.

This, was about to post this myself and I'm a female. Why get so worked up over someone staring at you in a video game in an area where there's literally nothing else to do anyway...

Voice harassment or harassment through messages on the other hand is something I don't tolerate.

Although I completely agree that people in games can be absolutely ret@rded when it comes to speaking appropriately to a female.........this cannot be something that they do. This would completely ruin the game. How could there ever be proof of a "sexual harrassment" charge? Are we just going to take the word of the person who made the charge? Talk about giving trolls the tools they need to grief any player they want. If women are having a hard time with this then there are a couple options for them (already mentioned but ohwell). A) squad up with people you know so you dont have to listen to moronic kids (or college students). B) Turn off your mic so that you dont have to listen to them if they are going on and you choose not do to option A (or noone is on to do option A). C) understand that people on the internet are stupid moronic ret@rds and this is not something you will be able to change the best thing you can do is ignore it if you want to continue playing.

Another option if they dont stop is to just start TKing them. Enjoy the ghost LAV to TK the idiots who wont leave you alone.

I'd like to just take a moment to remind you that you are not really the person you see on your screen when playing this game. Neither are you really on a warbarge about to attack a planet with immortal clones. You are actually playing a game, which by its very definition tends to attract children or adults with a childlike disposition.

I can assure you that your terrible suffrage at the hands of people who are not actually there with you and cannot actually do anything relevant to you, does not warrant the title of 'harassment'.

*snipped sexist and political language* - CCP Eterne