I grew up playing a lot of video games with my older brother, while my older sister kind of just stayed to herself. I mostly grew up with platformers and RPGs (especially Pokemon), but after being introduced to the FGC with SSBB, then with SF4 and BB:CT, I got pretty into it. Admittedly I don’t really have the drive to go beat Justin Wong, or to spend hours in training mode, but I do want to be good enough to be able to enter tourneys and do decently. I also like to watch majors like EVO and Seasons Beatings, and went to CEO 2011 and plan on going to CEO 2012. Even if I don’t enter, I want to go there, play a few casuals, and just enjoy myself. And I don’t even have a boyfriend, and in fact am not into men in the first place.
Really, I think it’s just social standards. A lot of women are taught from birth that everything they do has to be “ladylike.” They can’t like video games, they can’t read comic books, they can’t even like sports, because they’re not allowed to because they’re girls, and if they aren’t ladylike the femininity fairy will come and take their boobs away. Honestly, IMO? That should be a fucking crime. Nobody should decide what a woman (or a man for that matter) is allowed to like except the person themselves. I can’t stand seeing little girls being “pinkwashed” (because they usually always wear pink) by shitty mothers who won’t just let the girl be herself. I was never really raised like that, and so I ended up being someone who would much rather play some Elder Scrolls, Pokemon, or Street Fighter than waste my day watching Lifetime or gossiping about celebrities.
What’s wrong with my opinion?
tataki
February 12, 2012, 11:05am
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Tournaments are a 1000 times better places than stream chats.
ninalax : haha oh shitCrucify_ultradavid : NINA I WANT YOU TO FART ON MY FACE
M.D
February 12, 2012, 11:56am
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The fuck is going on in that stream chat?
its because theyre fighting games, most women arent interested simply because of what they are. most women arent competitive and just want to hang out with close friends, or goto a party because they can get drunk and use that as an excuse for having sex.
EmX
February 13, 2012, 1:01pm
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An enlightened perspective.
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Classic.
Couldn’t the same be applied for other competitive games, like FPS games and such? I don’t know of/see many females playing those as well, and most times some of the FPS games (like Halo or Call of Duty) are less complex than even the simpler fighting games.
EmX
February 14, 2012, 11:47am
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Couldn’t the same be applied for other competitive games, like FPS games and such? I don’t know of/see many females playing those as well, and most times some of the FPS games (like Halo or Call of Duty) are less complex than even the simpler fighting games.
It’s an issue with gaming as a whole. There are a lot of dumb, piss easy console games that aren’t competitive made for men too. Like most JRPGs.
Males of all species are hard wired for competition, a man wants to prove he’s the strongest so he will have access to the best food and mates. Prehistoric man or animals will kill each other over food or mates, that’s one kind of competition, but since we’re more evolved and more civilized we think of other ways to achieve this hierarchy (sports, games, etc).
Females on the other hand don’t have this competitive instinct, their instinct is to nurture and protect, and the best way they know how to protect is by choosing the strongest male (aka the ones who win competitions).
This thread has me seriously reconsidering my decision to travel to more tournaments
Hella misogyny in here.
EmX
February 15, 2012, 3:58am
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Males of all species are hard wired for competition, a man wants to prove he’s the strongest so he will have access to the best food and mates. Prehistoric man or animals will kill each other over food or mates, that’s one kind of competition, but since we’re more evolved and more civilized we think of other ways to achieve this hierarchy (sports, games, etc).
Females on the other hand don’t have this competitive instinct, their instinct is to nurture and protect, and the best way they know how to protect is by choosing the strongest male (aka the ones who win competitions).
We should all live in caves and go back to tribalism. Fuck Civilization.
Female posts in this thread and is generally afraid of going into tournament due to the misogyny talk in this thread.
Is it obvious now?
90% of these guys probably not go to tournies