What does this women's video game league mean to you?

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[–]NastyWetSmear 11 insightful - 3 fun11 insightful - 2 fun12 insightful - 3 fun -  (4 children)

Sure, that's funny, but I can't help but feel sorry for the small percentage of women who might have thought this was for them.

Imagine that you're the kind of woman who thinks you need an all women's team, right? Let's not get into the specifics of why you think you need it, but you do. You're looking for a way to join a competitive, professional E-Sports team and you feel like you need it to be an all women team.

Now, you've already been burned several times. There have been all women teams created, and they were awful. They failed miserably and you have every reason to think they were put together, not with the intent to have the best female players all on one team, but as a publicity project and nothing more. You're worried about joining another all women team because you don't want to be dragged into another "Girl power! Support us because vaginas!" team - you want to show that you're actually great at these games and you want the support of other women.

Finally you're convinced that this is your chance. Whatever sales pitch they've given you, you've tried out for this team and you've gotten in. You're confident that you're now in an E-Sports team that has real players and real women...

... Dudes. Dudes everywhere.

[–]TaseAFeminist4Jesus 1 insightful - 4 fun1 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 4 fun -  (3 children)

I really think any innate difference between the sexes' video game abilities has been exaggerated. Anyone can press A, B, Select, Start or whatever. The problem is, women are too busy having mind- blowing sex with lantern-jawed Chads to do it.

[–]NastyWetSmear 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

... That's, uh, that's one theory.

I don't think there's much of a natural gap between the sexes in video games... Men might have a slight advantage in FPS because of their ability to see movement better while women might have a slight advantage in matching and rhythm games because of their ability to perceive colour?... I can't imagine it's so much of a gap that it would mean no (Sex X) could beat a (Sex Y) in (Game Z).

I think the problem is, as I said, these "All Women Teams" in the past have been about getting some women together, regardless of their ability, and then hyping the hell out of them on social media for attention rather than getting a team of skilled players who are dedicated to the game. End result? It makes it look like an all woman team couldn't compete with the men, rather than the more accurate: If you pick your team based on genitals rather than skills, you don't get the best team.

I think it's safe to say that, overall, women are less dedicated and interested in gaming, while there's a lot more lonely, isolated dudes who have spent their life playing these games non-stop. Doesn't mean there's 0, though. I wouldn't be surprised if they were turned off the idea of joining teams after the mockery that those all women teams had in the past... And the lunacy that is this "All Women Team" being advertised here.

[–]ClassroomPast6178 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I suspect the sex differences are largely to do with interest and obsession.

It’s the same problem with chess.

Women have different interests and levels of obsession and that affects the level of competitiveness.

Chess is strange though as the top women barely crack the top 100 open league iirc.

[–]NastyWetSmear 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I'd agree with that.