[MUD-Dev] Myn ynd Wymyn (was Teaching ethics in MUDs)

[Ananda Dawnsinger]

> From: Adam Casbarian <adamcas at concentric.net>
> 
> Ananda Dawnsinger wrote:
> 
>> I don't see how it does.  I honestly don't.  A false sense of
>> security, yes.  A reason for Alice to charge the MUD with unequal
>> treatment, perhaps.  Unless there's an operating assumption that
>> women are, like children, naive and careless and unaware of 'Net
>> safety, and must be protected for their own good... and I think it's
>> safe to assume there's not.
> 
> When those women are 14-16, yes they are naive and careless.  Looking
> from past experience, a good chunk of the women who socialize on muds
> and chat-rooms ARE pre-21.  Believing they're all mature young adults
> who have been educated on what to do and not to do is foolish.

But then that falls into knowing whether or not a player is a minor, doesn't
it?

(My personal experience has been that ratio of adults to minors is higher
for women than for men.  YMMV.  I doubt there are any good metrics, though.)

   -- Sharon

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