(07-07-2014, 09:49 AM)Roswyn Wrote: When I was leveling my first character I was rather taken aback at the amount of rape and implied rape there is in this game in quests. What shocked me even more was when I brought it up to my FC no one else seemed to remember it.Think about that one.
They may not have remembered it because the NPCs in question never came right out and stated, point blank, what happened. Â Like, what I remember about the Ala Mhigo quests is that it was implied that the woman in question (a girl, really, implied to be the equivalent of a teenager, as well) used very veiled language and only directly said that she was harassed. Â The strong implication was that she'd been touched against her will (i.e. groped or otherwise manhandled), but I actually had to think about the quest for a bit to realize that most likely she'd actually been raped - but that was based on the information I got about the people who hurt her and the reactions of the other Ala Mhigans when she explained what happened, not what she actually said. Â And the word "rape" is never used. Â
I can't even remember the Ishgardian incident, so I may have missed it or misinterpreted it (or blocked the entire zone out of my mind because it was so rage-inducing in generalÂ
 ).I guess what I'm getting at is that some people are just gonna miss the cues (whether because they genuinely are dense, are unused to looking for a hidden meaning, or decide they don't want it to be rape because that is too painful to think about), because nothing is blatantly said.  That doesn't make them bad people.
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