Psychology of Gender and How it Affects the FGC
Lets explore why women are not generally accepted in the world of  gaming and then in the FGC. Disclaimer, I have a penis.
From around 18 months to 2 years sex differences between males and females begin to emerge. Mainly through external differences since most children in the western world don't run around naked (unless your at the beach and thats just weird parents stop doing that). Differences in hair, reinforcement of blue for boys and pink for girls, dolls for girls and trucks for boys, etc. Around the age of 3 the gender lines are more heavily drawn as their is a consistent difference in preferred toys and play activities. Boys will stick with boys and play rougher and also associate in bigger groups. This gender divide in preferred company lasts through most of the remainder of childhood development. While some might say society and parents are forcing gender down their children's throats, its actually really beneficial to have this gender divide during childhood. Having a clearly identifiable group to belong to allows children to learn a lot of social interactions that are necessary to have a healthy social life or just not be the weird guy on the bus. But by having these groups makes both gender groups extremely rigid on the "rules" to being apart of their group. Boys especially at young ages are EXTREMELY rigid when it comes to their attitude about the sexes. Take a 5 year old boys hot wheels away and replace it with a barbie to see the reaction for yourself (side note: hey don't do this its mean he likes cars vroom).Â
You might be thinking "Honzo your just a silly stinky boy, get out of my sexes and make me a waffle or get to the point", Well if we take what I just discussed about the gender differences in children into account with women in gaming we can shed a lot of light on why some things are. VIDEOGAMES ARE CONSIDERED MASCULINE. Do I think this? No, but thats what society has believed for the past 30-50 years or so. Societal beliefs are often more rigid than even the law, so outright denying the sentiment does really nothing. This classification most likely comes from the 50-60's where dudes were like "lol women kitchen computrers too hard fo u" and hey thats still around today. Be a woman in a computer class in college, then count how many penises are surrounding you. While I think women are making great strides in both computer and other science fields, it takes a couple of generations dieing to change society on a meaningful level. Seriously old people dieing or getting really old does a lot for progressing past weird/terrible ideals. The elastic clause was literally put into the Constitution to basically write the wrongs of old assholes if need be. So, with videogames being a masculine past time traditionally its hard for men to be accepting of the other sex being apart of this hobby, since they were conditioned and reinforced with the fact that women should be doing other things like knitting or not farting.
EVERYONE WANTS TO FUCK YOU
A thought that many women know and have to deal with on a daily basis that is often left out on the whole women in gaming talk/debate/thingy. If you are relatively attractive in any way and you go to a gaming related event, a lot of people are trying to fuck you. It's a combination of human nature and anti social weirdos fostered in silence with videogames and anime being their only childhood companions.
Hey women and men are attracted to each other sexually and want to have sex with one an other, this is normal, this is good, this should happen or we wouldn't have babies to dress up as naruto (stop doing that btw).
The problem is not normal people hooking up normally, its creepy weirdos, assholes, and mentally deranged people trying to fuck any women he comes in contact with. NEWSFLASH LIKE 99.9% OF GIRLS DON'T WANT TO FUCK YOU. Stop trying to fuck every waitress and then call her a bitch when she says she has a boyfriend, its not healthy doods. "I was nice to her why didn't she want to have sex" HOLY FUCK GET OVER YOURSELF YOU ARE NOT NICE, YOU ARE A SELFISH PUSSY. It blows my mind that a lot of men masquerading around saving diamonds in the rough with their kindness expect a blowjob for not punching a woman in the face. Being a faceless moron with no personality not only hinders you in regards to mating, but also friendships so maybe stop.
Some men are like this because videogames back in the day were a great escape for those who didn't feel accepted by their peers. Anti social behaviors are often developed over the years and they really just don't understand how much of an asshole they really are by expecting the world to open its legs to them because they said your hair was pretty. SPOILERS, I was like this growing up, I had friends but I just didn't really associate with them outside of school. I was extremely anti social and was ? why girls I like didn't like me back. I realized I was just one person in a planet with billions of them, no one is going to reward you for being a person. If you want meaningful human interaction then you actually have to interact with them on levels other than trying to fuck them. I imagine you have a group of guy friends anti social weird guy, imagine if all you did was try to fuck them and how quickly they would not be friends with you. So, the videogame community (and a lot of the world) is stuck dealing with these entitled people who make women feel uncomfortable, and it bleeds into its subcultures as well. As to what to do to rectify this, I don't really know its more of personal thing for each person. I'm still a nick carraway asshole sometimes, but at least I work at it.
"Honzo why did you make me read all that shit, I don't care if you were a lame in high school" Well all that was necessary to explain the current gender issues in the fgc.
Within the subculture of the Fighting Game Community our gender makeup is literally 95% male and 5% female. There are many answers on how it developed this way. Men are classically groomed to be more competitive than women, so in a competitive arena there will generally be more men. Videogames were considered masculine so in arcades there would be groups of boys playing and like we discussed men are very rigid when it comes to sexes. Women would generally not be encouraged to engage in this competitive guy centric environment. The most important factor in my mind and the one that is going to get me in trouble probably is that the builders of the community were goons. Don't even tell me for one god damn second that when a cute girl wants to learn how to play street fighter 2 back in the day the valles and watsons were thinking how to successfully integrate women into the community, they were thinking how to successfully integrate their dick into them. Which is not really their fault they were just kids, its just that we are dealing with that fallout.
So, now we have women who are understandably upset with the current boys club mentality the fgc still has and are assaulted by the anti social creepers at the same time, since most men in the community continually act like children and this is encouraged for some god awful reason. This culminates into a shitstorm anytime a women goes to a major. Literally ask any women about feeling unsafe at a tournament and you will hear 3-10 horror stories. Also not one of the personalities, sponsors, or Illuminati know how to deal with this. SO I am going to propose something.
(Hey before you read on please note I have made an addendum to this article which can be seen here. I really don't know what I was thinking when I was saying some of this stuff but I am leaving it in for credibility sake.)
Instead of having separate tournaments or only talking to women in the community when sexism is the topic, maybe we can integrate them naturally into the cogs of the community. Women commentators, women on podcasts not about sexism, and competent women players. BUT HONZO THERE ARE PLENTY OF COMPETENT WOMEN PLAYERS. Let me be completely honest since tip toeing gets us nowhere. There is not a lot of high placing women at events, either its because they take it less seriously as the people who place above them or they just suck it doesn't matter. HEY WAIT A MINUTE HONZO YOU ARE SHORT AND UGLY AND HAVEN'T PLACED IN ANYTHING. True, not everyone is destined to place at a major or even be good. I am not good, but there are other avenues if you are not good to be apart of the community. Look at the recent pax panel and count the number of competent players on the panel (spoilers its one).
You can make content like playing matches online or tech (youtube.com/adelheidstark being an example), you  can be a commentator (being one sucks but if you work at it you can be respected), or you can start or join a podcast. NOT A PODCAST ABOUT PROHOES OR SEXISM. If you say the term prohoe and are a women you are part of the problem or a prohoe. I am not going to invite a person on TSTS because they are a women. Not gunna happen, I really don't find you being a women interesting at all. I am going to invite a marvel player, street fighter player, or someone I think is funny to come on the show. Does that mean I am never gunna invite a woman on? No, but understand I am going to invite someone who I think will  be a good guest, its not my job to be a paragon of diversity. The fray and SDR have more leeway when it comes to guests since they are a roundtable like discussion. But that does not force them to shoehorn a women on to be like "hey we got a women shut up about it now". I am saying all this to basically express that you shouldn't feel entitled to be on a podcast, commentary, or get views on youtube because you are a woman. Maybe you just suck, no one cares what you think because you are stupid, and can't speak very well. That doesn't have to do with the fact you are a woman, you just might suck. Are there people who suck and no one cares what they think because they are stupid and they can't speak very well doing commentary, have podcasts, and make youtube videos? Yes, a lot of them (me) so don't be discouraged, just don't feel entitled.Â
Women do need to get better at fighting games as a person in order to gain respect in the community, so people won't just objectify you (they still will but I mean I can't change that) but actually care what you have to say about the game or a character or balance etc. I feel like women need a role model to aspire to.
So, if you still feel that I am wrong about women sucking I am going to play the Andy Kaufman of the fgc and challenge all women in marvel. I will mm any women for $100(I'm poor thats a lot of money). I don't think women take marvel as seriously as I do so I will prove it by taking all female challengers. I am doing this to hopefully inspire the female marvel players to not suck. I am not even that good yet I can mop the floor with every female marvel player. HEY ARE YOU MAD AT THIS STATEMENT? Good, get better and beat me scrub.
So, closing up this weird post let me just say a couple of things. Women suck in general because they suck on a personal level, they need to get better like a shit ton of dudes need to get better. I can't say why women don't place as a whole, but from woman to woman they just aren't that good. Bring up Kayane and I will blow my fucking brains out, no one cares about soul calibur. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, you live in a capcom world. If you want change and you suck at the game then you have to put in the effort yourself. You have to become knowledgeable about the game, learn how to commentate, get people to like your personality, and keep up with all the meta changes. Its hard and tedious work but you have to be willing to do it to be put in these positions and guess what get ready for the backlash and the hate, everyone gets it but bucking a trend is 10x worse.Â
Last thing I have to say is the one thing I see brought up by people calling the fgc sexist that makes me really angry and I think its stupid to bring up. I AM GUNNA CALL THAT FUCKING BITCH PHOENIX A FUCKING BITCH. Why does the insult have to be gendered? BC SHES A BITCH THATS WHY SHES NOT A REAL PERSON FUCK HER I WISHSHE WAS DEAD I FUCKING HATE PHOENIX SHES A BASTARD ASSHOLE BITCH WHORE LIMP DICK FUCK. I C A N N O T S T A N D H E R. You people don't know how much pain, suffering, and money that bitch has caused me. I wish she never existed, so don't you fucking tell me that I can't call that bitch a bitch, bc shes a bitch.
I write this not as fact but as an opinion, if you think it wrong or misguided please enlighten me why. I am not attacking any party or speaking negatively in anyway. All of this is to help the fgc move forward and not dwell on the past.So, help me help you.
(no one proofread this sorry for mistakes and gaps in logic)