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haksaltitans-deactivated2019031

hey guys, regarding that kotaku article from earlier. geguri has openly refuted the article and is uncomfortable with this controversy surrounding it. if we could please respect her words on this that’d be cool. (https://mobile.twitter.com/slasher/status/951551305922809856)

skrunglebeasts

if it would damage my career to be associated with people who the esports crowd violently despises, id probably not want my story being used either. given the dynamics and the sort of backlash shed risk, its no wonder shes trying to keep herself out of it. this is incredibly insincere and the history of esports says something very different than what this guy is reporting

4mation-is-1derful

Except unlike that trash Kotaku article which didn’t interview a single woman, Slasher actually went out and ASKED for Geguri’s opinion.

The Kotaku article talks big shit about women and didn’t interview a single one.

But I guess all of y’all constantly talking frankly sexist shit about cis white males are fine with letting a cis white male speak for all women in gaming.

haksaltitans-deactivated2019031

hey guys, regarding that kotaku article from earlier. geguri has openly refuted the article and is uncomfortable with this controversy surrounding it. if we could please respect her words on this that’d be cool. (https://mobile.twitter.com/slasher/status/951551305922809856)

fish-nut

I would like to redirect to and ESPN article that was published in September about Geguri, the women’s rights movement in Korea, and the involvement of D.VA in women’s gaming as an icon of feminist movement in Korea here - https://t.co/BLm6QlOj6F?amp=1 I personally really like this quote:

When Kim created her group – which she says currently has about 50 members – she cited Geguri’s case as an example of the sort of sexism female gamers encounter online, positioning her as a feminist icon. But Geguri has shied away from the role, pointing out that Dizziness accused her of cheating because of the glitch and her skill, not because of her gender.

She later pushes back when women’s rights activists try to enlist her to their cause. “I didn’t raise anyone’s hand,” she writes on Twitter. “I am simply a shut-in who likes video games and dreams of playing professionally.“Kim would remove the references to Geguri from the National D.Va Association’s website, acceding to her wishes to be left alone. But at the march, she says that while Geguri might not see herself as a feminist, she is still battling on behalf of other women. “She’s under a lot of pressure,” Kim says. “She’s fighting a lonely fight.”

acentuate

I mean as a Korean woman myself I sympathize with her because she probably has been taught to never ever make a controversy, but like the argument that there is a gender problem in pro gaming is not wrong just because she doesn’t support with it? They literally wouldn’t have accused her of cheating, glitch or not, if she was a man. She probably has a shit ton of internalized misogyny and denial, and I feel for her, Korean culture can definitely do that– she probably feels mortified that she’s been used to stir this up. But she is a symbol of the larger gender issue, and the issue has to be talked about for change to happen.

4mation-is-1derful

The hackusations were leveled at her before her gender was even known.

There is definitely a problem with female representation in pretty much everything, but everyone bandwagoning on OWL about this can kindly fuck off, because they didn’t care that this was an issue until a terribly-written article with awful journalism made it an issue.

You don’t get to go screaming at the top-Tier of professional competition that there are no women when quite bluntly there aren’t enough women at the professional level that their absence is notable, especially since other players who, yes, are cis white males, did not get in despite their previous, more notable accomplishments.

If y’all actually care about women in eSports, then you start from the bottom, not at the top. Support your fellow girl friends in gaming. Chastise the toxic masculinity rampant in gaming. Encourage and support female players trying to rise to prominence.

And don’t get misled by cynical issue-baiting ignorant garbage which argues for tokenism rather than merit, which fails to do research yet claims authority, and which talks constantly about women and doesn’t interview a single one.

rorymoved

overwatch: here is d.va, a young woman who is a pro gamer!

overwatch league: doesnt have a single team in the entire league with a woman on their roster

dillion-here-deactivated2023081

Maybe because there’s not alot of hardcore girl gamer?…

rorymoved

geguri, one of the best off-tanks in the world, was told she didnt make the cut–not bc she wasnt good enough, and yes, the very ppl who didnt hire her said she was qualified, but didnt sign her bc “ppl would think it was a pr stunt” or “she might get harrassed” (SPOILER ALERT: SHE ALREADY GETS HARRASSED, INCLUDING BY A PLAYER CURRENTLY SIGNED TO SEOUL DYNASTY) or “she didnt have chemistry with the team”

THE BEST KNOWN ZARYA IN THE WORLD GOT REJECTED BY MULTIPLE TEAMS BC SHE IS A WOMAN. ITS ABT SEXISM.

4mation-is-1derful

Piss off, mate. You don’t know shit about the scene and didn’t even care until you read a garbage Kotaku article which claims to be about the “plight of women” and yet didn’t interview a single fucking woman.

ynartistic

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inspired by this dragon age post with the same lyrics from Hamilton looooong ago (shoutout to verycharismasticdragon for giving me the link!) . Also, i know nothing about Hamilton except for this one song lol.