[Show] Unfiltered w/ ChanmanV and Destiny - Page 17

On July 30 2013 23:30 Zax19 wrote:
Oh boy, I hope Destiny trolls the shit out of Tara :D
EDIT: BTW you could have invited Ms Spite instead, then you could have an actual serious discussion

On July 31 2013 07:40 Zax19 wrote:
The way I understood Kennigit was that if we want "equality" then it should start at the top level. It's impossible to be respectful to all women and not objectify them when teams hire them exactly because the viewers objectify them, thus reinforcing the problem.

On July 31 2013 08:29 Erik.TheRed wrote:


I wasn't aware that teams were picking up female players in order for people to objectify them. And just because some people do disrespect them after the fact doesn't mean that the team had insincere intentions for picking them up in the first place.

It's honestly bullshit to think that teams are not supposed to recruit players for reasons other than pure skill. First of all, there's no good metric to skill or potential besides a lot of tournament results -- and the few players with that sort of repertoire are already the ones making good money. The root of this argument really has nothing to do with female gamers not being "skilled enough", because if we dig deep enough we can find plenty of other cases where male players were given preferential treatment for one reason or another. Just like in the "real world", recruitment might come down to something as arbitrary as friendship or charisma.

It's not even like you can claim that teams are falsely advertising the female pickups either. From what I've seen in the announcements nobody is promising a GSL champion when adding a new member to the roster. The recent trend of most NA teams starting academies should be more evidence that our community values diversity and player growth. Unless you're also willing to argue that it's "disrespectful" for teams to hire b-teamers, I just don't see how you can actually argue for this purely skill-based equity environment.