june gloom on 26/7/2011 at 01:44
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http://kotaku.com/5824084/well-thats-one-way-to-combat-misogyny-in-gaming) Logic fail on the LAN organizers' part, but what do you expect from Texas?
I love how they try to backpedal, too:
Quote:
"We actively discourage gamers from being the kind of mysogynistic jackwagons seen in the Reddit post, and such behavior should not be tolerated. Frankly, we don't like that kind of player either. So far as this event goes, it is an special event designed specifically for male gamers. Further, it is meant as a getaway designed to help said male contingent become better men both for themselves and for those who love us."
Welp.
Aerothorn on 26/7/2011 at 02:44
This is one of those "lame, but so what?" matters for me. Is their explanation stupid? Yeah. It's honest insofar as that it may well make their life easier (newfound internet attention aside), but it's a slippery slope once you start using that sort of justification.
That said, this isn't E3. It's a private LAN event. If they want to make it guys only, whatever: there are plenty of LAN events that have no such restrictions. And I, for one, wouldn't be jumping at the gun to be let in to this "gentleman's retreat."
lost_soul on 26/7/2011 at 04:32
Never been to any kind of LAN party myself. Sure I wished I could go when I was playing Quake on a Pentium 1 with a dial-up connection in order to shake the terrible ping, but ever since I got access to broadband in 2000, it just seemed pointless. I can ping under 50 anyway now.
Koki on 26/7/2011 at 05:35
Who cares? They would get stomped anyway.
icemann on 26/7/2011 at 09:19
I've been to a fair few small scale LANs and a few of the more larger LANs. If women are present more people tended to spend less time on their PCs and more time trying to chat them up. Take from that what you will.
More the merrier as far as I'm concerned.
henke on 26/7/2011 at 10:35
Quote Posted by Koki
Who cares? They would get stomped anyway.
If anyone else had posted this I'd think it was a joke, but at this point I have no problem thinking you really are this horrible.
Koki on 26/7/2011 at 12:03
Horrible but true.
Pemptus on 26/7/2011 at 12:10
Nah, just horrible.
Koki on 26/7/2011 at 12:35
As evidenced by the fact that racords in sports, from triathlon to chess, are equally divided between genders.
I mean god damn, at what point you people's denial actually ends? Does it have an end at all?
Yakoob on 26/7/2011 at 12:43
Hmmm I think this is one of those things that at first feels absolutely horrible and OUTRAGE, but if you sit down and think about it, it actually sounds like it might be just be the "last resort" solution to a problem.
I mean, imagine you are running a LAN party. You invite guys and girls. Eventually, the typical nerd guys either end up weirding the girls out, or throwing tons of mysogynistic comments (and its nerdy LAN guys that frequents 4chan; exactly the type to do that). Best case scenario, girls get upset and leave, you lose customers and customer-spaces (that could have previously been given to more guys, so you do lose profit). Worst case, your establishment may get threatened with discrimination, maybe even sexual harrassment if any of the guys gets too touchy, or at the very least it could become a big drama scene to such a proceeding. No one in business needs that.
So you tried telling the guys not to do it. But they still do. You started kicking them out. But that is, effectively, 90% of your audience; you can't just keep kicking them out. So what do you do? For the name of business, it makes more sense to exclude the tiny female minority and make room for more males, than to exclude vast majority of your profit-generating, albeit retarded, customer base.
Business isn't personal.
