I'm going to have to agree with her that it's damn annoying when somebody does something like that, but it just seems some people are constantly looking for excuses to complain about things.

Meh, it's called logging out. Not that hard to do. Home sucks anyway.

NOT THE CROUCH EMOTE!

Seriously, this isn't sexual assault. This is some douchebag being an idiot and thinking that he's funny.

Another reason not to use Playstation Home.

The thing is home did everything it promised and everyone thought it would be awesome, but when it came outit sucked

This is good for fanboys. "You could tea bag on the xbox first" :D

But this is just silly. You dont file murder charges when your killed in a game, so why file sexual harasment charges for your game avatar.

I don't go crying when someone kills me and then starts t-bagging my lifeless corpse. This is kind of rediculous

I disagree with this. Your avatar is a digital extension of yourself to be sure but we cant start confering human emotions and capabilities on them, your avatar is no more capable of sexual assault in say Home than he is of murder in an FPS. Griefing has been around for aslong as multiplayer and so long as people can have anonymity and interaction your going to get assholes. So somebody followed her around and made a crouch gesture, to call it sexual assault to me cheapens the term and is an insult to women who have been sexually assaulted. Imagine this woman showed up at a support meeting and claimed there she had been sexually assaulted the people would be disgusted.

Bah, it's stupid people like this that give people who hate gaming ammunition.
Both of them, the douchebag shouldn't be a douchebag.
And the 'Victim' should grow up a bit, I mean. An Emote?!?! What next, complaining abou assault in CoD!?

Oh noes! She was griefed in a virtual world! Lordie protect us! What new low has the internet sunken to??!@11

GTFO.

Why is Australia still allowed to have opinion on things?

Arrrm, how about trying to report the stalker? You know, before going to the press.

The only thing this is going to promote is more jackasses logging into Home for crouch-marathons. Infact I might do that just now. JK.

Isn't that why there is supposed to be a "Kick" Option???
It solves these problems rather well.

But yes It was innapropriate to do that, yet I fail to see how it wasn't easy to ignore?

I got sexually assaulted on COD. Stop Tea bagging me!
Also, this kind of thing happens everyday on Habbo Hotel.. and they're just 11 year olds!

The guy who was doing that is a jerk, and it'd be nice if there was the equivalent of an ignore button, but equating behavior like this to sexual assault is absurd and kind of insulting to people who have actually been victimized. The "roommate" (Yeah, right. You're a dude with a female avatar. It's okay, man) is correct in his assertion that allowing this to continue makes it a less female-friendly environment.

Unfortunately, the argument that Sony is losing money by allowing behavior that discourages females from using Home falls flat. Sony won't lose money because Home is hostile to females. They'll lose money on Home because Home is really stupid.

He crouched!
Then followed her?
How awful!
Where?
A game??
Really?
And this is a huge problem because....
Oh get over it.

Wow, get over it, PS home is a steamy pile of shit anyways.

grow a pair, i am sorry if i seem a bit cold, but i have been called various things meant as an attack on my playing abilities, my sexuality, my race, my sex and several other aspects of me they have assumed on, and honestly it have never annoyed me beyond making that person my first or last target (depending on whether I'm the enemy or the healer).

That is nothing. Last night I was walking through Ferelden minding my own business when I was jumped by a bunch of bandits who murdered me. Lord only knows what they did to my body afterwards. I demand to be compensated.

Baby Tea:

I don't doubt the guy was annoying, and she shouldn't have to quit or log out due to harassment, and obviously Sony needs to do something in terms of moderation of avoidance of these things (I recommend an 'ignore' Feature that makes the offending player and the 'victim' invisible to each other), but to call this 'sexual harassment' is a step too far.

Ignore features are the best way to handle this thing, really.

Oh my gosh, was someone just offended by someone on the internet?

Well, the only way to solve this "problem" is by giving the virtual people virtual guns so that they can open up a virtual can of virtual whoop-ass. Or they can make an action where you can rip another player's genitals off if the perform that action too close to you.

This isn't so much of a news story as it is just an update on the latest person this happened to. I mean really, is anyone surprised this happened?

this has been going on since day one ,yeah it's stupid and annoying but it's not sexual assault

2 solutions for this ... change avatar to a dude or log out ... problem solved

Step 1) Stop playing Home
Step 2) Get over yourself

This would be more appropriate if there were an multiplayer mode for Rez.

These two kids are retarded. Thats like saying getting owned in Counter Strike is being murdered.