Because females are greatly under-represented in e-sports and when it comes to being seriously involved with video games face a stigma from both general society and from the gaming community itself.

If females were actually treated the same as males by the SC2 community then you might have a point but they're not.

Maybe women are NOT the same as men after all and dont like violent / competitive games as much as men do? After all the world is going to be pretty boring if we all like the same things ... it is actually good to have different opinions on certain things and it is pretty bad to train our women to "nurture their aggressive sides" to turn them into "men type #2".

If a woman is interested in eSport that is fine, but please stop whining about the lacking numbers of females in Starcraft 2. I dont think there are many boys playing pony farm games either ... just embrace the difference and accept it.

Monarch.StarCrack

United States169 Posts

April 02 2011 19:50 GMT

#123

I would officially like to ask that any female SC2 player, Platinum league and above please PM me if you would like to be on our next "Girls of" episode. I want it to be more of a round-table discussion show rather than pure interviews like this one.

I've also reached out to Soe, Seltzer, and a few others about coming on. You'd be surprised how difficult it is to work around various schedules, especially when people are in other parts of the world.

chawsie

Canada1 Post

April 02 2011 21:22 GMT

#124

get rid of kelly and it would be great

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DarkGeneral

Canada328 Posts

April 02 2011 21:35 GMT

#125

wow that chick Leah Jackson is beautiful!

A boon for Sc2 community :D

x6Paramore

Canada130 Posts

April 03 2011 09:51 GMT

#126

Nice, out of the 600,000+ that ladder in America, it brings me joy that there are at least 4 women out there that know what Starcraft 2 is.

craz3d

Bulgaria856 Posts

April 03 2011 10:04 GMT

#127

Just out of curiosity, who are are the top chicks in terms of skill (or ladder rating)?

Candles

United Kingdom103 Posts

April 03 2011 10:16 GMT

#128

They should include Soertz if for no other reason than she seems to know more about Starcraft than the rest of them...

Decko

United States150 Posts

April 03 2011 10:53 GMT

#129

No CheekyDuck? Watched her in the morning a few times, she's adorable.

tyles

United Kingdom509 Posts

April 03 2011 11:12 GMT

#130

On April 03 2011 06:35 DarkGeneral wrote:
wow that chick Leah Jackson is beautiful!

A boon for Sc2 community :D

Bubble-T

Australia105 Posts

April 03 2011 12:09 GMT

#131

On April 03 2011 02:57 Rabiator wrote:
Maybe women are NOT the same as men after all and dont like violent / competitive games as much as men do?

Nobody says they're exactly the same but why would video games be any different from sports like water polo or handball or any number of other things, outside of cultural barriers to participation? It's particularly ridiculous to suggest that women don't enjoy competition as much as men to an extent that would explain their limited participation in professional gaming.

That's not the main issue in any case - the biggest problem is that when they do participate, a large portion of the fan base is quite happy to be sexist as hell about it. Even in this thread about a podcast specifically designed to showcase what several women are bringing to the competitive SC2 scene it's full of posts from people who blatantly care about nothing but how attractive they are. You won't change this by ignoring the problem.

SmoKim

Denmark10301 Posts

April 03 2011 12:14 GMT

#132

Briar Bates is the sister of Bryce “Machine” Bates of Team Evil Geniuses and girlfriend of StarCraft Broodwar legend G5. She has attended numerous StarCraft events in the past to support her brother and is playing a major supportive role in helping G5 return to professional gaming.

G5 returning to Starcraft?

WHY IS THIS NOT A BIG DEAL O___O ?

TelecoM

United States10667 Posts

April 03 2011 12:17 GMT

#133

oh shit G5 returning to pro gaming......G5 will easily be best foreign toss with practice.

Tommie

China658 Posts

April 03 2011 12:19 GMT

#134

I enjoyed it. But it would be more fun if it could be with all the people chatting together ( like in SoTG ) instead of a couple of separate interviews.
By the way: what is up with all the girls in SC2 being so pretty?

DejaVoo

New Zealand20 Posts

April 11 2011 11:54 GMT

#135

After being linked here from JWD's XVIII thread I have some thoughts. Apart from agreeing that it would be interesting to get some sort of discussion going on between the interviewees (granted there may be logistical issues) I'd like to say that the interviews were quite well done. The women all had fantastic insight, I particularly liked Leah's apprehension about the speed in which tournaments are growing. While I don't totally agree it was a great bit of insight from someone inside the gaming media scene. If I could have one issue it would have to be the questioning of Kelly, the rest of the cast were not subject to such invasive/inappropriate questions. Perhaps the Interviewer is on a more casual basis with Kelly and that was the basis for the questioning. However this was not in any way communicated through their interaction. One positive from the hounding was Moonglade's input into the conversation which was nice as he is a total baller ^^

RoyalCheese

Czech Republic745 Posts

April 11 2011 13:46 GMT

#136

Hey, i just heard the first 2 and a half interview and then my class started but i enjoyed it alot. Thanks. We really need to vote the shit out of Anna so she can win miss usa and give shoutout TL during her 'thank you speech'

Molly

United States5 Posts

May 30 2011 04:49 GMT

#137

Mmmm.... As non-threatening, non-hostile, and as respectful as I can say this, kind of upsetting seeing our name used without permission giving certain circumstances.

I guess nothing can be done about it now though.

Megaliskuu

United States5123 Posts

May 30 2011 04:55 GMT

#138

Sick Bump