Even chess has open co-ed formats as well, so their argument is moot.
How odd…a story involving women is actually getting reported on by using the facts as oppose to wild accusations. Multiple new sources are surprisingly faulting the organizations desire to be acknowledged as a sport…looks like this is more of a E-sports issue.
God…are they stupid. Obviously they know nothing about real sports and why women and men are separated in them. This won’t help make e sports be recognized as a legitimate sport rather it will just make them look foolish. Just like the term ‘e sport’ which is scoffed at by most people, along with the silly argument that video games are sports, this just has the rest of the world laughing and shaking their heads.
Anyone who thinks this moronic segregation is somehow good for female gamers is an imbecile.
Luckily no one thinks that…in fact the reaction has been overwhelmingly negative towards it. The bigger problem is this concept of E-sports however…it’s a nonsense concept that doesn’t apply for competitive gaming.
I liked how you ignored dialupsucky’s post and that example does work because you said play fighting games, not being among the best there is. Looks, academics, and being social are irrelevant to that even if you initially said being at the top. The dudes who play are going to become friends with other players naturally so they are being social. I used to compete and kept my honor roll while I was in school. I didn’t stop because I was pursuing education or my career it was because people didn’t want to give me rides anymore to tournaments or sessions. In fact since I’ve stopped playing I have been working on pursuing my career far less than I was when I was playing because of other distractions in life. Also Daigo was able to do the job he wanted while he was playing.
As for women it’s because of the stigmas society places on women and video games.
I’m with you there brotha.
Agree on the whole talent thing and having to focus on it and neglect everything else. The top people of what ever, aren’t a jack of all trades, they only have one skill that they excel in and everything else is below it. As far as this segregation when it comes to competitive gaming, IMO it should be mix and not separated. I was looking up what Chess does for their tournaments and I guess they do mix and segregated, and from one female’s blog, the reason why there isn’t more mix tournaments is the lack of financial backing to female players to go attend to them with out them having to fit the bill for the costs of traveling, entering, etc. Not sure if that’s a big reason why, but from what little I know of the MMO genre, there seems to be a lot more female players than there are female fighting game players. So is it due to lack of sponsored backing to the girl gamers? Regardless, I still think there isn’t a physical barrier for females to not be the winners to these male dominated tournaments.
I always thought the name “E-sport” was a gimmicky lazy approach to calling games in a tournament/competition. Ok, it’s somewhat close to the definition of email: messages distributed by electronic means from one computer user to one or more recipients via a network. But it’s not exactly that. It’s slightly annoying and so far a lot of the bullshit falls into it as well. Maybe if people got together and think of something else to call it, then all the stupidity will go away with it.
The grimy people never know they’re grimy. They think they are normal.
"Looking forward to the Mario-playing representatives from Italy."
what
Policy reversed. Blizzard put down the hammer on them, apparently.
It was a dumb policy to begin with. A male and female division just doesn’t make sense in the context of gaming. However I wonder if this will open up another impending argument I’m sure people will grab onto. Even with this ban lifted it’s still likely the majority of people qualifying for the event will be men…I can just imagine the "why aren’t there women in competitive gaming"arguments that will follow as a result from this.
If you’re wondering why the IESF still has women-only events if it is trying to stamp out gender discrimination, the organization explained that it wants to provide extra opportunities for women.
“Female gamers make up half the world’s population, but only a small percentage of e-sports competitors are women,” reads IESF’s note. “The IESF’s female-only competitions aim to bring more diversity to competitive play by improving the representation of women at these events. Without efforts to improve representation, e-sports can’t achieve true gender equality.”
Haha we have achieved the feminist definition of gender equality yet again!
If women are underrepresented in a lucrative environment, it’s because of oppression. When men are underrepresented it’s because they are lazy and stupid. When women are in a bad spot, it’s a world crisis and all the fault of men, and even if it’s exaggerated something must be done. When men are the victims, it’s not a big deal at all, even if far more men suffer than women do in something that is considered a crisis.
It’s hard to call these gamers men in the first place. If you classify them all as LGBT I think it wouldn’t be a reach.
What is that word you people use? Weaboo? I don’t know what that word means but it appears derogatory and probably correct for the majority of male gamers.
And here I thought it was because UltraDavid told them “fuck you” on reddit.
The issue here is that competitive gaming is a meritocracy so what you get is what you put in.
You can’t achieve symmetrical gender representation in something which is completely dependent on choice and and preference. Outside just making events a open ended and accessible as possible…you can’t exactly force women to participate unless they want to.
FGC wants to take all the credit, as usual. Or maybe just /r/Kappa. 
Spoiler
WE DID IT REDDIT
I made a reddit account, now I just need to find this thing on there.
why do people still trot out the tired canard that the only way in which men are superior to women is physical?
men are better at nearly everything they try. we’ve evolved through competition and struggle.
reaction times, judgment, execution, mental focus, the list goes on and on.
Because the majority of men these days are actually inferior to women?
Weeks, me and you are clearly superior. If you want to lower yourself to the level of these commoners you can do so, but I refuse to allow them onto my level. Let them stay inferior to women where they belong, while I look down on them both.
I assume the people who support gender segregated gaming tournaments see it as a temporary measure but it certainly seems ineffective. I remember that article about the top paid female competitive gamers, and so many of them were people who collected just 1 payday with CGS. Evo continues to be a sausage fest for all the years following the female SF4 tournament.