How does Mortal Kombat have sexual harassment? Sexual objectification of virtual women I will agree with. That is more of an issue of society rather than gaming. It is just societies norm of women are perceived more sexually. It doesn't help that the demographic of fighting games is young male adults who happen to like attracted virtual/real women. But that is a whole different topic and has nothing to do with sexual harassment.
Mortal kombat as far as a community has NO sexual harassment. You can argue the portrayal of big booty characters like mileena sonya jade etc etc are bad, but yet we don't act out against women as far as i have seen. What angers me about this shit is not that aris probably regrets it all and probably isn't a horrible person. What angers me is the people who see this as no big deal or a non issue, because you are worse than the perpetrator himself. Why?
1. if girls are getting into competitive gaming thats a sign that all of our scenes as a whole are on the rise. why try and discourage women or ANYOne supporting a FG scene?
2. IF you think this is no biggie then think of this. What if you were at a tournament and someone was talking shit all day to you over and over, started off as jabbing but ended up being another guy trying to get a laugh off of you? At some point you either run away or nut up like a man. Girls can't nut up like a man!(lololol pun) but seriously they can't, its not their job to check a dude who is shit talking, if they have done nothing wrong, its OUR job to defend them, matter of fact, its our job to defend anyone who isn't in the wrong while being taken advantage of, bullied, made fun of, cheated, or disrespected. If you don't share some sort of a similar view then you need to really think long and hard about your morals. One of two things will happen. either you will fold like this girl did, or you are gonna scrap. Thats part of what men do, and a big reason why shit even remotely similar doesn't happen man to man. Why do we feel the need to respect each other as men, yet not respect or dignify a woman as a woman? TO me it shows either 1. you don't have balls to say to shit talk and troll another man face to face like you would a woman, or 2. you honestly don't have a lick of respect for the opposite sex. I don't see either option as being right or respectable.
I think nearly all of us are in agreement. IT WAS wrong, it was not respectable. and to be honest this makes me PROUD to have found myself part of a group of gentlemen who share the same thoughts. To know other than a similar interest in a particular game and passion we share, that nearly all of us can be thought of as morally sound says a lot about this community. we come from different places, we have different beliefs. But when it comes down to what is really wrong and right to know that i found a group of people who share the same views, and love the same thing, really does make me proud. Stay classy MK stay classy TYM. No matter what others think of us, we are one and at the core we are all good people. Im done with this thread, all it can do to me now is further anger and frustrate me. i hope, we all remember this and learn from it, throw the gender issue out and its still important, respect, not as a gamer, or skill related, is not earned, it is owed, until that person proves otherwise, you should always have respect for someone you don't know.
Hopefully this fiasco doesn't stay with her for too long, we can't afford to lose even one person who is a FG supporter. SF Tekken Marvel, MK. doenst matter, in the end we are all one, one genre one group, we need each other and the sooner we grow up and realize it, treat each other with respect, and respect each other for our choices in gaming, the sooner we can tackle bigger moral issues like sexism, racism, etc. Stay classy TYM. Im ouuuut
