Are these surprising outcomes from a conversation on that sexual assault that happened in the Metaverse?
<p>When I said, ‘apparently a girl was raped in the Metaverse,’ my conversation partner said, ‘no she wasn’t.’</p>
<p>He posits: ‘She could have left the room or taken the headset off, and calling it rape undermines real rape.’</p>
<p>I feel that what he says is true, but also that she was assaulted. I find myself stuck between two truths.</p>
<p>On 6 January 2024 in an episode of BBC Radio 4 Woman’s Hour, the journalist Helen Rumbelow explains my position to me. What I take from her bit is that vocabulary around events such as the one that happened to a girl in the Metaverse hasn’t caught up with the reality. Nor has the law.</p>
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