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The vast majority of Esports games don't require reaction times only men are able to perform at top level.Do Males or Females Have Faster Reaction Times?
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The vast majority of Esports games don't require reaction times only men are able to perform at top level.Do Males or Females Have Faster Reaction Times?
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The vast majority of Esports games don't require reaction times only men are able to perform at top level.
Yeah but not to the point where a woman would be incapable of doing it.Fast majority does require reaction time.
Of course, there are barriers in every society. Go to any high school or middle school and you'll find that kids are teased for performing activities outside of their gender roles. I find it hard to believe that you haven't encountered a single barrier in your life.
Females, on the whole, don't play that many hardcore games. You're more likely to do something if your peers do it too and if society deems it as proper. This isn't absolute (obviously people can rebel), but these pressures exist everywhere.
A barrier doesn't have to mean that someone legally can't do something. That's why I specifically said social/cultural barriers, meaning they are either looked down upon or not enforced as strongly. Very different from some 3rd world societies where a woman literally cannot do something by law.
Go look at Twitch chat when a woman shows up in an esports gaming stream. They're sexualized and discriminated, to an extent. The same does not occur when males show up and this is because esports is dominated by males.
You're free to disagree with me, I'd be more than willing to discuss.
So do we need programs in place to belittle ‘girlie’ games like animal crossing or barbie, and push girls into murder games because they are ‘better’? Like what concrete steps do you think should be taken to fix this esport imbalance?
I despise this ideology that girls must be like boys or it is discrimination and cultural domination of the poor female who are to dumb to know that they should be interested in shootng people in the face in videogames rather than play dressup or interior design games.
If there are fewer females wanting to pretend shoot people in the face maybe that is a good thing.
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Why are some of you so sensitive about these kinds of subjects? I originally stated that I thought social/cultural barriers could be a factor of less women in esports. Not that society is institutionally sexist and we need to instill conversion programs to fix this. Some of you make me feel like I'm advocating for a new world order
Probably rhetorical, but good excuse for some self reflection...
It probably stems from my shitty childhood with a mother who was the antithesis of maternal. And because i see virtually nothing in society that celebrates what i see as feminine traits (love, compassion, cooperation, maternal caring, etc), when someone says it is a problem that girls don't play murder games and it is because societal pressures are oppressing them, yeah it touches a nerve.
It seems like society wants to push girls into areas that just maybe they aren't, in general, wired for. Like maybe the reason woman dominate the caregiving/teaching professions isn't because they are being shamed or oppressed into them, but because that is what many women want to do.
Neogaf. That's pretty much it.Shame. I’ll be avoiding VG247 from now on just like Kotaku and many others.
GAF. Where do I get my gaming news without having agenda driven horseshit articles?
Sasha “Scarlett” Hostyn comes in at 329 in the list of highest paid esports professionals. She is the only woman in the top 500 earners.
Have fun, Make your own!While we're at it, why don't we just mass produce a bunch of cheap trophies to hand out to everyone that plays?
They'll even all have the exact same award stamped on.
"I TRIED."
The article is a joke. Comparing a TOP PLAYER against someone who is at No.329?
But because player No.329 has a vagina, it becomes a huge problem to these woke journos.
Yeah but not to the point where a woman would be incapable of doing it.
Im just gonna say it since you guys won't: girls are bad at videogames.
Its gotten better in the last 5 or 6 years but its still like watchin a microwave cook aluminum foil. Theres just no situational awareness or athleticism from them. Any girls reading this who disagree 1v1 me outside bro 10th prestige cod sergeant colonel reporting.
Then why are there no female players in those tournaments like at all?
And is a transwoman.yeah ant the #1 female player in that list make almost as much as 3-10 combined
I don't think a woman will be harshly bullied for picking up a controller, I think that she is less likely to spend a significant portion of her time doing so due to 1) decreased exposure to video games 2) smaller social incentive 3) expectations on her by her peers/society.
We are not number one, some dude is.We're number 1! We're number 1! We're number 1!
Fuck yea! No high apm or quick reactions required. Just need to flash certain inherent female ASSets along with fruits on display; particularly of the "Cucumis Melo" variety.... And of course you have to show your genuine appreciation when the donations are raking in, with selfless smiles and kind words from the heart.... and this in turn will perpetuate the continuous flow of capital from disillusioned loners...with boners.Thot streamers though.
Don't worry. It's pretty much the only player I know over the age of 30. Granted, most esports are pretty new in the whole scheme of things so that is probably also a factor.Oh fair enough, shows my ignorance. I don't know much about eSports really.
Wouldn't it be the easiest thing to set up separate women's tournaments?
At least then you could allow the top women to make a bit more money and could also give them the chance to have success also.
Who would want to watch that? It'd end up like with the US womens soccer team that actually costs more money than it brings inWouldn't it be the easiest thing to set up separate women's tournaments?
At least then you could allow the top women to make a bit more money and could also give them the chance to have success also.
This whole situation just feels like it could be undone by admitting that men and women are different and that's OK. Then have a women's tournament and encourage the women to get hyped about it and promote the events etc.
Otherwise you are just looking at ranking based on pure ability and the only way you are going to change that into a more "gender neutral" thing is to literally rip up society and build it up in such a way that women are more interested in these games.
Even then, I can't see how that would work without kind of "forcing" women to participate in something they may not have an interest in.
We must engineer society so that they won't be able to avoid becoming interested because it's like an invisible guiding hand making sure that girls become more interested in esports? That seems kind of fucked up.
Maybe for things like esports it's fine to just "let the chips fall where they may"?
Scarlet is a transwoman, so, yeah.
Note that most girls are not interested in that kind of games (neither playing, nor watching, for that matter, although I'm pretty sure most of the audience would prefer watching girls play over boys, for reasons while female streamers are more populare)
Can we drop the #3 pretty please?
Girls exposed to high levels of testosterone in the womb develop male-typical toy preferences even when parents encourage female-typical play
So long for "social constructivism": If you wonder "then what", then, my friend, entire "girls are under-represented in field X, because " which, to put it mildly, lacked evidence, shifts to becoming a baseless political statement. Disclaimer: coming from a father that mostly bought "girly"...www.neogaf.com
"Expectations", my arse. Most kids who are good at eSports spend insane hours in game, which is guaranteed to cause anger by their parents.
It was the case with the winner
Over human sapiens history women had little to no inscentive to participate in any "kind of the hill" activities, no wonder nobody cares now either.
We are not number one, some dude is.
In unaffected girls and boys, we found evidence supporting influences of parental reinforcement on
children’s toy choices; for both girls and boys, positive maternal responses to play with boys’ toys correlated positively with time spent playing with boys’ toys. In addition, for boys, negative responses from
either mothers or fathers to play with boys’ toys correlated negatively with time spent playing with boys’ toys, a finding that also is consistent with the idea that parental reinforcement influences the actual choices made by children.