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chili_power (![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} chili_power) wrote in ![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/community.gif){kind=small} fandom_wank,@ 2006-03-19 14:44:00 |
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There's this article making the round on my friendslist by Kim Ron, self proclaimed "eSportler" (the article is a few days old but I checked on both
otf_wank and fandom_wank and couldn't find anything, so beat me if this is old). Subtly, sensitive and insightful he writes:Men are better at computer-games than women. Big surprise. We grow up playing games, we spend enormous amounts of time playing games, we consciously dedicate time to better ourselves and we are competitive by nature. No wonder we are better gamers.
He thinks the only four reasons female eSportlers ever get a sponsor are:
They have vaginas.
They have asses.
They have tits.
They have mouths.
That more or less covers the 4 primary selling-points for female gaming teams.
Of course, splooge flies. 123 comments and still counting on the article itself and another 115 on LJ's girl_gamers. An intermediate wank but worth noticing.
We have the mindless yay sayers like jonas:
But I do believe that any girl/woman involved in gaming would deny your conclusion.
Nontheless very very true :D
Yes, indeed, there are some titbearing wannabegamers who care to disagree, er, I mean, are in denial:
nmo: I’ll tell you what the problem is. It’s not that you begin your thoughts with drawing a clear line between female and male gamers; dividing the scene and clearly saying that “Hey, I will never let you enter my world of male dominance”. That I can deal with. What bothers me the most is that you, in a very explicite way, draw paralells with being a two-dollar hooker and a female gamer, no, I wont buy that.
To which Kim cleverly replies: nmo, I’m not saying that I (or anyone else) will never allow female gamers into a world of male dominance. I am just stating the obvious
Laust thinks that GAMING IS SIRIUZ BUSINESS!
The only reasonable feedback I can see is nmo’s arguments.
The rest is either “thumbs up” or “fU** j0 I dizagrEE with my no-brain comments!1″
And that’s my point really. There are just too many teenagers and people living their lives online in the esport business, that the ones who’ve actually got something to say are waisting their time
MissHyper says: U say u support female gaming, but after an articel like this u just removed all respect for female gamers and removes quite a bit more respect herself a few lines later. And mark my words, i dont say female gamers is as good as male, far from, but i really think if they got the chance and u gave those tho deserves it a bit respect, i dont think it will take long before u see some girls joing up with “Pro-teams”
Wan Zafran really would like to respect femal gamers. Srsly: Once upon a time I believed that there was equality in the world of gaming; at least in terms of skills over gender. And then I kicked so many female asses that the statement became a false one.
On LJ elhaym_solaris suggests: Perhaps the reason he thinks all gamer-girls are unskilled camwhores, is because those are the only ones he's gotten to see due to his fantastic social skillsstellarstiles: Oh-uh. Someone must have been owned by a girl with big boobs in the past and is feeling a little bit inadequate, no?
