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Emphasis mine.

Sexually violent behavior is sexually violent behavior. Gender does not play a role in regards to a victim. The intent is to express sexual dominance through force over another. A male victim of sexual abuse is no less a victim than a female.

This isn't meant to be an admonishment towards you or the behavior in general, just rather, that symbolic actions have meaning deeper than the traditional interpretation.

That was a generic statement, right? In that case I agree.

However, bagging someone in a game is about as sexually violent as shooting them in a game is violent.

It's simply not.

I agree and I had considered that. Yet I still think there's a subtle distinction here. When guys get teabagged generally, it's about domination. On GWJ servers I think there's still an aspect of that, but it's more about it being ridiculous, almost slapstick.

EDIT:

Fed, I feel the same way. Yet why should we? Why do we have to be gentlemanly?

First of all, I don't agree with being 'gentlemanly' generally. I don't see the reason to treat women with any reverence or be more polite them than to men. However I do believe in being polite to everyone.

I think part of the idea of being gentlemanly is related to the idea of the men caring about women; not in a romantic sense, but a protective one. That women are weaker objects and need to be looked after.

In real life this is entirely dependent on the physique of the woman and man in question. If Woody Allen and Serena Williams were to meet, I'd imagine she'd be the alpha male.

Online, this is irrelevant. We're judged on our ability to think and react, not how much we can benchpress.

I say teabag them more.

Take THAT for ditching me at the prom, female gender!

I'm not saying that only women can. I was wondering why I didn't do it; part of that is my concern that women would take it to mean something it wasn't.

For all the times I've been pwn'd by both Mystic and Luna, they've demonstrated they've got the chops. They're not newbies and they get the full treatment. There's no gender, there's skill and they have plenty of it. So, to not bag them when they're the last on the field, when I would another male player of comparable skill, is saying there's something lacking because they're female. They don't deserve that.

Do, I shoot them a little less because they're female? No.
Do I attribute any kills they score on me to luck? No.
Do I take satisfaction in beating them in the game because they're a tough opponent? Yes.

Bags away.

Yeah I think Lobster has cut to the core of the problem. Once again.

Think of them like your sisters. Are you nice and courteous to your sister when competing? Absolutely not. Do you take every opportunity to rub every little victory in her face just to watch he freak out? Oh yes.

Cut to the core? Have you read what I said? You'll notice that I don't advocate being 'especially' nice to women in real life.

What I'm talking about here is whether you should slap your balls against your sisters forehead.

Slightly different.

Which one?

You don't have a sister do you?

Once my little sister and I were fighting and she tripped me and body slammed my head. To make it especially effective and humiliating she did so with her ass. The force of her butt slamming into the top of my head and the ground slamming into my chin caused me to loose a baby tooth.

After having a tooth knocked out by a serious "seating" I don't really blink twice about teabagging anyone in cyberspace.

I don't want anyone to treat me differently just because I have a vagina.

I think we're missing your edited post. I just went and read the thread backwards because I was confused and I see what you're saying now.

So I don't really have an opinion.

Uh, follow your heart?

You people really having this conversation?

Actually the timing of this thread is funny. Saturday night Mystic was hosting. She and her hubby were on the opposite team. Mystic was in spectator mode. I downed her hubby on the subway tracks and, without thinking, teabagged him before landing a head stomp.

Inigo was laughing as we returned to the Round resuls screen. He pointed out what I had done and asked "Is it right to teabag the hosts husband in front of them...." It was a Gears of War ettiquete question.

I hadn't thought about it... but damn, that was funny in a virtual Gears kinda way.

Mystic didnt seem to care as it was all in good GoW fun.