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posted by janrinok on Wednesday November 23 2016, @04:35AM   Printer-friendly
from the perhaps-men-don't-like-losing-to-a-woman dept.

On Monday the e-sports industry awards take place in London to applaud the top players in the business but not one female player has been nominated.

Competitive gaming, also known as Electronic Sports or e-sports, is growing at an incredible pace. In 2016, revenues from e-sports are predicted by professional services firm Deloitte to rise by 25% to $500m (£406m). Its regular global audience will likely top 150 million people.

Unlike in traditional sport, physical advantages in e-sports are non-existent yet the most popular games are still overwhelmingly played by men.

Recent research by the Pew Center shows men and women are equally likely to say they play video games but men are twice as likely to consider themselves "gamers". It is when gaming becomes competitive that the number of women playing drops dramatically.

Steph Harvey is one of the most successful gamers in the world. She says that the number of women in e-sports is as low as 5% and the main reason is the stereotype attached to gamers. "It's still a 'boy's club' so as a woman you're automatically judged for being different," she says.

Online abuse has been prevalent in the gaming community for years and even led to a misogynistic hate campaign.

Steph has even received online rape threats in the past: "The way I get harassed is about what they would do to my body, about why I don't deserve to be there because I use my sexuality - it's all extremely graphic."

[...] Julia Kiran is the leader of Team Secret, which in October became the top female team in the world. She thinks this reflects a common attitude: "It's always felt that female teams are not a real scene. Male players see us as a side game that doesn't count."

One of the solutions has been the creation of female teams and female-only tournaments.


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  • (Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 23 2016, @06:08AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 23 2016, @06:08AM (#431694)

    >>99191708
    The hebrew translates to:
    If a man rapes(takes, like how you would take a city or control an instrument or weapon) a young girl (the hebrew word used here means a young person from the age of infancy to adolecence, it is female gender by implication as woman/female is specified later in the sentance), who is not betrothed(promised), he pays her father 50 silver, she shall be his woman, he shall not send her away all of his days.

    So: If a man rapes a young girl, who is not betrothed, he keeps her and pays her father, she shall not be sent away.

    IE: Pedo rape and marraige is OK.
    Later it says in D__teronomy to kill any person who entices you to follow another God/Judge/Ruler

    Kinda like how everyone here entices to follow feminist rulers rather than the God of D__teronomy.

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  • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 23 2016, @06:47AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 23 2016, @06:47AM (#431716)

    Kinda like how everyone here entices to follow feminist rulers rather than the God of D__teronomy.

    So if I rape the God of Deuteronomy (you are supposed to leave the vowels out of the "god" word if you want to pretend to be Jewish, you moron!), do I get to keep him? Who do I have to pay to keep your "god" after I rape him? 50 Silver seems a bit steep, would you settle for 30, you bleating Judas? Your god will make a nice addition to my harem. We amazons are like that.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 23 2016, @07:36AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 23 2016, @07:36AM (#431733)

    Humor me.

    What is the point of posting this constantly?

    • (Score: 2) by GreatAuntAnesthesia on Wednesday November 23 2016, @12:40PM

      by GreatAuntAnesthesia (3275) on Wednesday November 23 2016, @12:40PM (#431798) Journal

      Probably a desperate attempt to keep his urges in check: By constantly posting this objectionable shit all over the internet (it's not just SN, apparently) this tragic individual makes sure he is kept on all the significant law enforcement watchlists, and therefore knows that heavily armed SWAT teams will be all over him like steroidal flies on a turd the moment he so much as looks in the direction of a primary school, daycare centre or ebay ad for second-hand ice cream van. This provides the omnipresent threat of retribution[1] that motivates him to repress his desires and keep out of trouble. Basically, it's the only tool he has to prevent himself from horribly harming some poor kid and then being arrested, beaten up, eternally reviled by all as the lowest of the low and horrendously abused in jail for the rest of his painful, miserable life. Makes you feel kind of sorry for him, really. GP, get some help.

      [1] Since the omniscient and supposedly wholesome paternal deity of justice he initially turned to for help apparently approves of his vile cravings after all[2]
      [2] In his mind, anyway. Although let's be honest, the Old Testament shit he keeps quoting is hardly helping matters, is it?