@Serejai: 1) Can you give me an example?
2) Women were already into e-sports for a long time. This is not big news. Saying that you are a girl and not a guy is not meant to get attention but to let the community know that there is no more hiding. Girls & boys play sc2, nothing new there. We do get trolled but it is getting better. If you don’t say it, people will find out and then the story will repeat itself lol
http://www.reddit.com/r/starcraft/comments/k29g1/women_in_starcraft_2/c2h2pfs
....It is not rocket science.

PD

there are always exceptions)

Serejai

6007 Posts

September 02 2011 20:52 GMT

#27

Well, it seems that there is a trend of female gamers using their gender to gain attention in the ESPORTS industry faster than their actual talents would have done so otherwise. Like, people we shouldn't know about because they haven't really accomplished anything... but we do know about them because they make blogs or forum threads about how they're female.

I mean, take yourself as an example (hypothetical, of course). Clearly we all know who you are already as you're a very prominent figure in the StarCraft II scene. However, even if you weren't you could simply make a blog and mention that you're female and you'd probably become famous overnight.

It's no secret that a female gamer announcing she's a female will instantly boost her followers/viewers/etc. Do you think this is fair practice? Or, as a female gamer yourself, do you feel this is a step backwards and causes people to take women less seriously?

Yuis

Canada134 Posts

September 02 2011 21:05 GMT

#28

On September 03 2011 05:52 Serejai wrote:
I mean, take yourself as an example (hypothetical, of course). Clearly we all know who you are already as you're a very prominent figure in the StarCraft II scene. However, even if you weren't you could simply make a blog and mention that you're female and you'd probably become famous overnight.

True. I agreed
If you post any topic with the title "Girl" in it, you will get over 3k hits in less than an hr. Sad fact

It's no secret that a female gamer announcing she's a female will instantly boost her followers/viewers/etc. Do you think this is fair practice? Or, as a female gamer yourself, do you feel this is a step backwards and causes people to take women less seriously?

I personally hate that. I got 0 respect for girls that purposely do that but again, that's the minority.
And yes, it is a step backward and leave a really bad image to the rest of us.
However, between tha or being trolled because you play, I honestly don't know whats worse. The last option is just stay as low profile as possible. Most of us learn how to pretend to be a guy so we don't get noticed. sad sad

SirJolt

the Dagon Knight4010 Posts

September 02 2011 21:18 GMT

#29

You'll have to forgive me if this seems a little gauche, but it occurs to me that the content of these posts is, perhaps, just a touch at odds.

On September 03 2011 02:07 Yuis wrote:
As everyone knows, I have an all girls team and I'm also part of NA ESL.

On September 03 2011 06:05 Yuis wrote:

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I personally hate that. I got 0 respect for girls that purposely do that but again, that's the minority ... Most of us learn how to pretend to be a guy so we don't get noticed. sad sad

I understand that this might not have been your intention, but I do hope you can understand the inference; that this combination might be seen to be a little disingenuous?

I do apologise if this seems a little tactless, but it's better not to befuddle these things with guile.

CrashD

United States40 Posts

September 02 2011 21:26 GMT

#30

@Sirjolt I get what your saying but think about it, did you come to this post because she is a girl. When you selected this post all you saw was "FFA Friday: Ask me anything". The people they are referring to are the ones that you see all the time with streamers for example is that the description says "GIRL GAMER HERE" ect and can be seen from the stream list page. Something that actually sets the term as a source of attraction to catch your eye/interest. In this ama she gave you a bit of background to give you an idea of who she is so you can ask her worthwhile questions. i think that makes a fair bit of sense.
Hope to hear what you think ^_^

Yuis

Canada134 Posts

September 02 2011 21:26 GMT

#31

@SirJolt : No worries, it is a valid question.
Supporting the girl community is different from advertising that you are a girl for attention

I used to be a pro gamer, so I know what they have to go through.

Like I said before on my teams topic
"We are not advertising that we are girls, we are advertising that girls do play games and we can be pretty good at it"

Yuis

Canada134 Posts

September 02 2011 21:31 GMT

#32

And then there are topics like
Women in SC vs Men in SC

Both parties are right, but you can't generalize like that. ^^

My friend first impression of sc2 community was :" is everyone an *ss in this game?" ( she just said "hi ^.^" in a popular NA channel )

atmuh

United States246 Posts

September 02 2011 21:34 GMT

#33

Yeah they don't advertise things like HI IM A GIRL I mean when have you ever seen someone like Navi (their captain) make any kind of post for attention? Never. And I don't even know half the people on their team so they don't seem to be the type out for attention.

karenmcd

Canada39 Posts

September 03 2011 04:20 GMT

#34

Yeah the only post our team made was to let ppl know we existed and try and recruit a few new ones - most of the girls didnt want to really be known, myself included... I'm only a gold level terran... demoted from platinum recently - how embarassing - but we do all have a passion for eSports and we do love things made of stacraft 2 - and so our team is basically there to provide the foundations, and non-threatening/trolling environment - for players that want to - get better at the game... not get attention, or w/e else ppl think is on the adgenda :p

love your blog yui xxo ♥
fem-fx.com fightning!!