If you look up the definition, the act is seeded in a history of sexual assault. That's not something we as a society should take lightly. Teabagging someone has serious implications beyond bad sportsmanship in a video game. This is openly saying that sexual assault is okay in digital spaces - TLDR: it's not. Ever. Anywhere. Yet it's standard to see players perform the action in most FPS competitions.
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Games will never remove the crouch mechanic. And we know developers did not create these games with the intent of teabagging. You need to be able to duck and crouch to avoid enemy fire. This is 100% on the gamers to take responsibility for their actions and realize that everything they do has consequences. Even when showing off a game at PAX to journalists and other developers. (For reference in locating this particular issue, you'll find just as many "pro-teabagging" and "whiny sjw" comments. This also applies to the Overwatch League incident.) People do not play video games to be digitally sexually assaulted. No one does. Bottom line: when has anyone liked being teabagged? I can't think of a time where I enjoyed it in a game, nor my friends, nor any other gamer I've watched or spoken to. No one likes it. So why do we keep seeing it, knowing full well the type of insult it is?
Before the naysayers pipe in and comment "well it's just a game; you knew what you were getting into." Where does it say on the game box that "teabagging may occur?" I certainly don't see it on my copy of Overwatch or Unreal Tournament or Halo 1-5. While the boxes may have a stipulation that they do not control the content or actions of other gamers in the online community, teabagging is so abhorrent that it needs to be a bannable offense. None of us buy a game to have our avatar be teabagged. This isn't "sjw" commentary. This is logical sense. It's a crime in the real world when it's done without consent. It should be forbidden in digital spaces as the actions are always done after an avatar dies and the user can not provide consent.
So yes. What Lee did on Saturday during the match was more than disrespectful. It's disgusting. If the Overwatch League could get on board with descriptive guidelines on player behavior, then the consequences for teabagging could have prevented Lee from initiating the act. They have millions of people following the League. These pros are setting the example for future eSports events. They need to have the right attitude and the right mindset now or this venture will not last.
To put it into another perspective: If you would be disgusted by a U.S. football star scoring a goal, knocking down an opponent, and proceeding to rub his genitals in their face, then you should be concerned about teabagging in video games.
Before the naysayers pipe in and comment "well it's just a game; you knew what you were getting into." Where does it say on the game box that "teabagging may occur?" I certainly don't see it on my copy of Overwatch or Unreal Tournament or Halo 1-5. While the boxes may have a stipulation that they do not control the content or actions of other gamers in the online community, teabagging is so abhorrent that it needs to be a bannable offense. None of us buy a game to have our avatar be teabagged. This isn't "sjw" commentary. This is logical sense. It's a crime in the real world when it's done without consent. It should be forbidden in digital spaces as the actions are always done after an avatar dies and the user can not provide consent.
So yes. What Lee did on Saturday during the match was more than disrespectful. It's disgusting. If the Overwatch League could get on board with descriptive guidelines on player behavior, then the consequences for teabagging could have prevented Lee from initiating the act. They have millions of people following the League. These pros are setting the example for future eSports events. They need to have the right attitude and the right mindset now or this venture will not last.
To put it into another perspective: If you would be disgusted by a U.S. football star scoring a goal, knocking down an opponent, and proceeding to rub his genitals in their face, then you should be concerned about teabagging in video games.
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