Do you think taking up-skirt shots of peoples characters is creepy?

[Lacan]

Thanks for the responses. It is a minor annoyance rather then anything else but daym this game has a load of pervs >.<

my advice would be to use this to your advantage. Catfish those straight guys. :v get the gil upfront.

[Mikhaill]

Thanks for the responses. It is a minor annoyance rather then anything else but daym this game has a load of pervs >.<

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[RoyalBeef]

The biggest issue with this is that it 'objectifies' one's character. It's easy for some people to hand-wave the issue away as it's 'just pixels,' but it's important to remember that for many people--their character is a digital representation of themselves. And anything that represents one's identify should not be objectified. Because you can't (you shouldn't) treat someone like an object.

With that being said, I have no issue with someone making their own character sexy and undressing them. That's their character, and they get to decide what to do with them. But it's ethically wrong to disrespect another individual by objectifying their character. And this doesn't even get into the social issues revolving around equality or even those who suffer from PTSD being on the receiving end of such behavior. (in RL)

I remember having a stern debate with one of my FC mates, because he liked to use an emote that was basically 'steals your panties and runs away with them." He was just a young kid in his teens, and was being playfully cute based off the behaviors he saw on anime. He had no idea as a guy what it meant to be objectified or even be on the receiving end of such behavior. He just thought it was something cute that people did in anime, and thus was acceptable behavior in-game. He and I never saw eye to eye on the topic, but I strongly suggested he cut it out, as it's the kind of behavior that can get you suspended from the game. Being as a custom emote is easily reportable and this specific one violated the ToS, because it could be seen as sexual harassment.

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The bottom line though, is that while lewd behavior itself isn't wrong. It's wrong to force another into a situation they're not comfortable in without their consent. As individuals--we're entitled (yes, I said entitled) to our bodies. We're entitled to our identity, and we're entitled to the base-line of respect and dignity that comes with being a human being. People are not objects, and should never be sexually objectified. Unless they're into that. But that still requires consent.

Is there anything that doesn't give someone PTSD these days?

[MaraD_]

I dont self insert with my character, and since there's only 1 model for said underwear, they can make a character and see that same 3d model any time they want. Is that the equivalent of seeing "my character"? yes. Because I never actually owned "my character", and "my character" isnt me.
On a related note. One day I was working on a project with my roomate, and in one of her laptop files, were upshots of my character. I found it weird, but not "creepy". (code word for "something i find morally wrong/unacceptable, but dont want to say that")
Her reasoning didnt really matter to me, other than just to quell my curiosity.

[Shougun]

I-is.. that what they're doing under there!?

In general I don't think anything of it, not real, etc, can make a copy of my character and do all you like, w.e, like I don't think much on a something dying in a game (unless the game worked very hard on narrative to make me care I wont get to experience the game with them anymore).

Sort of inverse to the thread but back when I was wearing one of those grand company trenchcoat things I used to hide my friend's lalafell characters under there because I thought it was funny XD, no pervy reason just thought it funny I could make them vanish (I try to avoid breaking collision with random people though).

[347SPECTRE]

Female miqo'te can at least make a macro to punt pervy lalas.

[Ayuhra]

I do find it a little unsettling if someone chases me around doing things like that (happened on my blood elf in WoW) but I mostly just feel a little sad for the people who take screenshots like this.

[SturmChurro]

Don't dress your character conservatively because of other people, dress it how you want and forget about them. No reason to cover up because of some weirdo.

[Rivxkobe]

Hm, I'll never have this problem, as my character never wore or ever will wear a short skirt - meaning I think that's the reason why -

My character has a few glamours with skirts or a long top and I have never received a catcall, whispers or had people sitting by me looking up my skirt.

I think its the hair? Maybe if I had sexier hair I'd get more attention.

Hmm.

[Reinha]

If there is anything I've learned from parser debates, it is that characters and all of their attributes are property of Square Enix. So, objectify away. It's no different than looking at anime characters, comic heroes or other fictional beings.