Why We Can’t Ignore What’s Happening to Women in Virtual Reality Today

A similar thing happened previously to Nina Jane Patel, a psychotherapist who conducts research on the metaverse. She <a href="https://medium.com/kabuni/fiction-vs-non-fiction-98aa0098f3b0" rel="noopener">described the experience</a> of being ‘verbally and sexually harassed’ and then ‘virtually gang raped’ as a ‘surreal nightmare.’ But when Patel came forward with her story at the end of 2021, it was met with a mountain of criticism, including assertions that ‘it wasn’t real’ and she could’ve just ‘taken her headset off.’ The latest incident, unsurprisingly, sparked similar reactions. But the bad news is, these are not isolated cases. Officers investigating the attack on the 16-year-old pointed out that sexual offending in the virtual sphere is now ‘rife’ and that these spaces are becoming breeding grounds for predators. Well. This is even more worrying when you con <a href="https://medium.com/the-no%C3%B6sphere/why-we-cant-ignore-what-s-happening-to-women-in-virtual-reality-today-4d3aea6025b7">Click Here</a>