IN/FORM: POLY 2012-13

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Victoria Hungerford

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FN-FAL is your gun of choice. It has great accuracy. It has a low burst rate, being a light automatic rifle, which you surmise is the reason for its pinpoint accuracy. You really don't care about the realistic depiction of the gun you choose—if it works great for you ingame, you're happy. This gun works best for your play style because 7.

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The website, "Fat, Ugly, or Slutty," has been aggregating visual, audio, and textual evidence of sexual harassment toward women/girl gamers. In a post published on November 14, 2012, titled “You Know, just Whenever” a Gamer Girl recounted an experience with sexual harassment while playing on the XBox Live Network: “I had this guy on my friends list for quite a while actually. After not playing with him for a long time, I got this message: 'can u moan on xbox for me smtm? (show me the money).' It isn’t rare to see sexual harassment in the form of textual communication addressed to Gamer Girls online. What is startling is that this harasser’s gamer reputation, awarded by the gamer community, is 5 stars (a good gamer who does not use lag switches or other cheats during online game play and has not said anything overtly offensive). Victim blaming occurs when the victim of a violent and often sexual crime (rape) is blamed for the violence inflicted upon them. An instance of this is, “You shouldn't have worn such a provocative dress; you were basically asking for it.” This mode of thinking assumes that the rape could have been prevented based on the personal attire choices of the victim, instead of placing the blame on the rapist. It also is part of the discourse revolving around rape culture. Often the sexualization of women as objects of male fantasy is part of this narrative as well: she owes her body as a reward for the work of the man. Sex is an assumed right for men in this narrative; the female’s desires and wants are assumed to be only for the pleasure and reward of the male fantasy/ego. Feminist activists and scholars have been critiquing the media portrayal of women for quite some time, calling the male gaze into question, including the ways in which the media treats the victim in rape cases. To Frag means: 1a) noun. a slang term for a fragmentation hand grenade. 2a) verb. "accidentally" killing an officer who is incapable of leading troops by dropping a grenade on him. 2b) verb. slang used to describe the act of eliminating an opponent with a fragmentation grenade. 3) verb. slang used by computer game players to describe the act of defeating another player. (Urban Dictionary)


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