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Twitch boss Matthew DiPietro is clear that the industry needs to do more about online sexism in gaming.
The senior executive was speaking to us from the streaming site's headquarters in San Francisco.
Gamers have told Newsbeat about their experiences and Twitch says it's doing all it can to stamp out sexism on the platform.
But Matthew tells us this isn't a problem that Twitch can solve on its own.
He says the industry needs to invest money to "move forward on this issue".
He's calling for "investment in terms of people, education and money.
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Twitch: Gaming Needs to ‘Invest’ to Tackle Sexism
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If bankers can count, how come they have eight windows and only four tellers?
(Score: 2) by frojack on Monday October 03 2016, @12:43AM
Exactly what I was thinking.
Investment, like is often done if you slip up and us the N word, and make it all go away by donating to Jessie Jackson's Rainbow Shakedown.
Maybe they should make some games females will actually want to play. Maybe that takes more female programmers. Or maybe they just donate to some generic cause and call it an investment in STFU points.
But I fail to see how money changes anything.
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by mojo chan on Monday October 03 2016, @08:27AM
There are lots of games that women want to play... I think one of the things people constantly misunderstand about Sarkeesian, for example, and one of the things she is at pains to point out in every long form video she made, is that she does actually like many of the games she goes on to criticise. She has spoken at length about some of the Mario games that she used to play as a kid, for example, despite also criticising them for constantly damseling the princess and making her an awful stereotype on the rare occasions when she is playable.
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by VLM on Monday October 03 2016, @12:50PM
is that she does actually like many of the games she goes on to criticise
Its all about women having an unnatural love of forbidden desire. They like being all indirect and obtuse and complicated. They daydream about vampires raping them but they don't want that in real life, its just fun for daydreams. There's a whole section at the bookstore for this weird stuff. Damn, women are complicated.
And that collides head on with male psychology where we really do pretty much want what we daydream about. A daydream about a college cheerleaders bikini car wash fundraiser is exactly what it sounds like, not a reinterpreted symbolic repressed secret desire for GILFs or goatse dude. Times like that I wish I was a car. Of course 99.9999% of the time my car is not getting the special wash treatment but is getting crapped on by seagulls, but whatever.
If you abstract out the sex and add some Mario (or mix them together for extra fun) thats all thats happening in this greater situation. She sweatily daydreams all night about getting "damseled" by conan the barbarian (or some Italian plumber, whats the difference anyway) although in public admitting that would be a political death sentence so endless technical psychobabble is her personal way of getting it out of her system. The male version of the daydream is more like "LARP as Conan the barbarian and bang the chick from the 1982 movie, yeah sure sounds fun". They like to trigger boys by going on some rant about the secret unconscious phallic symbol of the sword or some other elaborate insanity, whereas the triggered boys respond with something like "no you idiot you don't understand sometimes I really DO just want to chop the head off the bad guy and bang the princess, it has nothing to do with repressed shame over colonial era mercantilist economic policy".
Furthermore I think there's simmering jealousy that guys daydreams are generally socially acceptable, and womens generally are not. So there's some elaborate displacement reaction where the girls just can't stop talking about some irrelevant crap tangentially related, but what they really wish they could talk about in public without shaming is their intense daydream desire to get damseled and/or pounded by conan the barbarian.