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@verius It would be better if we could convince them to do this IRL
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@verius Speaking from experience "progaming" (which apparently doesn't get a hyphen these days because they're too k00l for that) is one of the few aspects of gaming exactly as sexist as people make it out to be.
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@gameragodzilla @verius You know what would be realistic? Getting hit once and spending the rest of the game in a military hospital and then sent back home to the united states to live on the streets in poverty and despair because the Veteran's Association is shit and you don't get a pension just for being sent into an active combat zone.
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@verius Unless you're getting your tits out, it doesn't matter how good you are as a female gamer. And honestly? Prior to what in my generation we called "e-sports" going "mainstream" it wasn't that bad. In a roundabout way I guess I should be happy I got into it around the time that was just starting to happen though, so the dream got well and thoroughly crush…
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@purplehippo @verius I was literally no 1 in the battle.net NA ladder for Brood War at a point but the lasses that got all the attention were the ones wearing the skimpy outfits, because human nature doesn't change.
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@purplehippo @verius Total "we need female leagues because the women will be scared to compete with the men" Biscuit
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@verius @purplehippo I found the entire argument very condescending and sexist. If you treat me different based on gender, then what is it if not sexism? Now, not all sexism is bad - but there is no reason for it to exist here. As you say, there's no biological reason for the division in e-sports. if anything, esports SHOULD offer a venue where women can comp…
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