Amber Night

Mouth-breather of the week.

From GamePolitics, we learn that Kim Rom is scared of women.  He likens females playing games to “a joke,” and while he concedes that “female gaming is a
great concept,” in the way that dogs are so cute when they think
they're people, he is then shocked (shocked I say!) to find that female gaming teams such as the Danish all-girl team Vildkatten attract sponsors who play on their feminine traits:

“But funny thing - most of them actually do attract sponsors. Here is why;

They have vaginas.
They have asses.
They have tits.
They have mouths.

That more or less covers the 4 primary selling-points for female gaming teams.”

So nice job, Captain Obvious.  Here, let me try.  Um…how about this thesis: boys are attracted to female gaming teams because:

Wow, that was pretty fucking easy, and it only took me 2 bullet points.  Maybe I can be a “manager and editor-in-chief” in the “eSports industry” too.

Kim goes on to say:

Point goes to Captain Obvious again.  In general, a random sampling of males and females will show a disparate number of “good” male gamers over female gamers.  No surprise there; although that gap is closing, it still exists.  Note that Captain Obvious says nothing about men being inherently better, simply that the male culture fosters this behavior, and so it stands to reason that they will be predisposed towards this behavior.  This is important to understand, because Kim uses the argument as a springboard to propel his argument from obvious-to-the-point-of-blogging into omgwtfbbq territory:

This is Kim's argument:  Men are better at gaming than women because culturally boys are encouraged to shoot things, while girls are encouraged to nurture things.  Ergo, females “lack the dedication and the drive” to be good gamers.

There's actually a term for this kind of logical leap; it's called an Argument from fallacy, and if you've ever been on a debate team you probably recognized it immediately for the intelligence-insulting mouth fart that it is.  Hell, if you've got more than a couple brain cells to rub together you probably spotted it.  Kim would have you believe that having a vagina knocks the “dedication and drive” for the “big Dollars” right out of our poor soft little heads.  Dear god, what a caveman motherfucker.

Now, I happen to agree that these sponsored female teams are a bad idea.  Over at Sachant I even argued that they probably hurt the industry.  But dear god, spare me the testosterone bullshit that female gamers cannot compete because we just can't be bothered to put the effort into pulling ourselves up to your level of leet skillz.

Perhaps the most revealing part of Kim's article:

Dude, I hate to tell you this, but your wife has been hiding a terrible, terrible secret.  You might want to rent The Crying Game.

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