If you need proof how stupid, petty, and hypersensitive this world is getting, read this: https://medium.com/athena-talks/my-f...2ee#.nofv8esw6
A woman named Jordan Belamire claims she was "groped" in a VR game called QuiVr.
In between a wave of zombies and demons to shoot down, I was hanging out next to BigBro442, waiting for our next attack. Suddenly, BigBro442’s disembodied helmet faced me dead-on. His floating hand approached my body, and he started to virtually rub my chest.
“Stop!” I cried. I must have laughed from the embarrassment and the ridiculousness of the situation. Women, after all, are supposed to be cool, and take any form of sexual harassment with a laugh. But I still told him to stop.
This goaded him on, and even when I turned away from him, he chased me around, making grabbing and pinching motions near my chest. Emboldened, he even shoved his hand toward my virtual crotch and began rubbing.
There I was, being virtually groped in a snowy fortress with my brother-in-law and husband watching.
As it progressed, my joking comments toward BigBro442 turned angrier, and were peppered with frustrated obscenities. At first, my brother-in-law and husband laughed along with me— all they could see was the flat computer screen version of the groping. Outside the total immersion of the QuiVr world, this must have looked pretty funny, and definitely not real.
Remember that little digression I told you about how the hundred foot drop looked so convincing? Yeah. Guess what. The virtual groping feels just as real. Of course, you’re not physically being touched, just like you’re not actually one hundred feet off the ground, but it’s still scary as hell.
SJWs and feminists everywhere picked up on this story. Rather than becoming fodder for jokes, as it properly should, this is being taken seriously as an actual crisis in the world of gaming. It's being labeled as a "virtual reality sexual assault".
Mind you, the player being "assaulted" does not feel anything, nor do they see any private parts or have any indication they are being "touched" other than seeing a cartoonish hand reaching for them.
The developer of the game stated to CNN that his "heart sank" when he heard about this story, and he immediately created a new control called a "personal bubble", an option you can select which forces players to stay out of your personal space (lol).
http://money.cnn.com/2016/10/25/tech...d=hp-stack-dom
Also, I have to wonder if there is a financial motivation to this author expressing such outrage, which she likely knew would appeal to feminists and man-haters everywhere. Despite being married, under the blog it clearly states, "Jordan Belamire is the author of the upcoming novel, Swaying Magnolia, an adult f/f romance."
So this OMG-men-are-victimizing-me-online blog might be a perfect marketing tool to promote Jordan's lesbian romance novel, which is likely to appeal to the type of person who finds her blog worthy of sympathy.
Additionally, I have to wonder if the author's lesbian tendencies are contributing to her hypersensitive nature regarding being "touched" in a video game. If you already dislike men and see them as disgusting sexual predators, you're much less likely to laugh something like this off.
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Originally Posted by LarryLaffer
