The unsolicited message.

[yuiyoshida]

Lately I have been playing this on line game... its been hella fun! However...

While working on upping some of my power points, and gathering coins for the next round of purchasing Rune stones.. a message pops up. Now, granted I have not even tried to make any friends here. Mostly been ignored for the most part... I even tried sending a message to one person in the game, and received nothing but stone cold silence, so...seeing a message pop made me curious...and so I clicked on it.

"HELLO, YOU WANTA FUCK?"

Huh? Someone I don't even know, or who has never seen me, asks this question. Thoughts ran though my mind... Maybe its just some stupid teenager, trying to goad me, or was it really some troll out looking for fun. It occurred to me I really had no way to report this, or to block this individual from sending me further messages. I mean, it was totally annoying to know, that if this person wanted to, they could harass me enough to consider leaving the game.

I thought of a billion replies I could send back, but that would only inflame the situation, so I simply erased it. I figured maybe if I didn't respond he (or she?) would go away. I have since not received any more nasty messages. But, I won't soon forget how I felt, thinking I have received a message from someone enjoying the game like I was and just wanted to reach out.

No such luck I guess.

[ismnotwasm]

1. Ew

Are you identified as female? Because there's a huge problem with gamers and this kind of thing. Mostly male, but it certainly wouldn't exclude females I guess

[yuiyoshida]

2. of course...

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the photo in my posting is of my character with my name on it. She clearly is female sitting on that black horse.

[ismnotwasm]

5. That's just disgusting

There are a lot of female gamers speaking out against this kind of thing

[Warpy]

3. Gender neutral names can help a great deal

which is why every bit of my online presence is gender neutral.

I was lucky to be sitting next to one of my looms when I registered here, otherwise I might have been Doorknob or Stucco or even Hariball.

[MadrasT]

6. LOL, I named myself after one of my cats.

Sadly she has crossed the rainbow bridge since then.

[yuiyoshida]

7. Its a little hard to be gender Neutral

When you are a female on a big black horse


Difficult to change horses in the middle of a stream.

[sufrommich]

8. Females shouldn't have to hide their gender

to survive the internet,that's the problem." Hide your gender" shouldn't be the acceptable compromise.I don't have an answer for you,I'm just sick of the answer being "pretend you're not a woman".

[yuiyoshida]

9. too right!

[nomorenomore08]

4. Jeez, I'm sorry about that. So many creeps and assholes online.

In a way it's not unlike the school bully who torments kids to get a rise out of them, then enjoys the hell out of their reactions. But in a potentially scarier adult version.