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viOLetFanClub
Korea (South)390 Posts
On August 27 2012 03:12 Cybren wrote: Let's see, are men "dominant" in starcraft because they're inherently better at it, or is it because the game is marketed mostly towards men? You're not actually serious, are you? I can't tell. | ||
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askmc70
United States722 Posts
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Pjorren
Sweden777 Posts
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chuDr3t4
Russian Federation484 Posts
On August 27 2012 03:11 blackone wrote: I don't understand your post. What's the comparison to Starcraft? You mention Athletics and an athlete "switching" from male to female competition, but there's no parallel to that in Starcraft, MLG is MLG regardless of what gender you are. Yeah, but women-only tournaments aren't. | ||
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BabyToss!
Czech Republic588 Posts
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Meerel
Germany713 Posts
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419fish
United States35 Posts
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illsick
United States1770 Posts
On August 27 2012 03:11 blackone wrote: I don't understand your post. What's the comparison to Starcraft? You mention Athletics and an athlete "switching" from male to female competition, but there's no parallel to that in Starcraft, MLG is MLG regardless of what gender you are. she does compete in only female tournaments | ||
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CCa1ss1e
Canada3231 Posts
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Cybren
United States206 Posts
On August 27 2012 03:13 viOLetFanClub wrote: You're not actually serious, are you? I can't tell. What's not to be serious about? If the game is played 99.99% by men, then 99.99% of the pros are going to be men... | ||
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enCore-
98 Posts
I'm not trying to say that females are stupid in any way, I think both genders have different, biologically-influenced strengths. | ||
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Praetorial
United States4241 Posts
Usain Bolt wouldn't switch because he wanted to set a women's record, he'd switch because it is a deeply personal choice that attempts to match one's body with one's character. We are not going to bring up "men are better at starcraft, transgender women have an advantage", or any of the other stuff, because it's utter bullshit. Transgender people are no different than the rest of us. | ||
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pStar
996 Posts
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HaXXspetten
Sweden15718 Posts
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haffy
United Kingdom430 Posts
On August 27 2012 03:14 BabyToss! wrote: Seriously, people should give Scarlett a break from this bull... gender doesn't matter in SC2 at all. Yeah it does. Male brains are generally better at somethings, while female brains are better at others. Men in general can concentrate and focus on single tasks for longer periods of time than women. Pretty big advantage when it comes to playing SC. | ||
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Drowsy
United States4876 Posts
On August 27 2012 03:06 Asharon wrote: Hi there, the recent win of Scarlett (congratulations btw) in the WCS NA, raised an interesting question for me. How should we view transgenders in sports? I wanna say upfront, no disrespect to people who are transgender this is really just a general discussion about the topic. So Scarlett was born a boy and decided to become a girl. As a girl then she won the WCS NA and everyone is yelling "wow outplayed by a girl lol" and stuff like that. I don't really see it that way. Let's shift the whole thing to other sports and to other people. Current world record in 100m is held by Usain Bolt with 9.58 in August 2009 (According to Wikipedia). So imagine he would say now hey, I feel I was born in the wrong body and become transgender. The best time for a woman on that distance is 10.49 by Florence Griffith-Joyner in 1988, so about 1 Second slower than Usain Bolt. Which would mean that if Bolt ran this record as a woman he would hold the world record in Women's 100 metres for a very, very long time if not forever. So my question would be if you treat transgender men in sport as normal women, wouldn't that distort the whole sport and achievements? Wouldn't other female participants be up against a huge disadvantage? I know that Starcraft is a game of the brain and not so much of strength, still men are by far dominant in this game, means if a transgender would sign up for female events she would have a huge advantage. I find this a confusing topic and hope I didn't offend anyone by laying down my thoughts. I just like to get some diversion on this to see different points of views. Thanks in advance P.S. English is not my first language, so I apologize for mistakes. And there's the crux of the topic. It completely becomes a non issue if there are no "gender only" events. | ||
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aike
United States1629 Posts
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TBone-
United States2309 Posts
I know that Starcraft is a game of the brain and not so much of strength, still men are by far dominant in this game, means if a transgender would sign up for female events she would have a huge advantage. I wouldn't say males are more dominant, I would just say theres a metric crap-ton more of males, which is why we see more males winning then females. Simply because there is more. | ||
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TheSir
1830 Posts
It's up to people's own opinions if they see Scarlet as a female or male, just respect that she would like that people call her a she. And no when some organization would organize a ladies event then Scarlet probably is not allowed to compete just as like it is in any other sport on this world. | ||
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Uracil
Germany422 Posts
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