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Tracy claims to have "learned" that "virtual characters can force other virtual characters to have sex against their will."
This is simple false. One hundred percent not true. Made up. Regina Lynn knows it's not true. It is gibberish, it is nonsensical, it is utterly fantastic. It cannot be done, period.
I know there's a certain cohort of feminist writers who want to see rape everywhere, but it is simply unconscionable for both writers to trivialize rape and violence by comparing it to a computer game.
Yes, women can be sexually harassed and insulted and intimidated online, with words. But the idea that there is non-consensual sex involving Second Life avatars is so transparently stupid you have to wonder what Regina & Tracy are thinking of.
