- cross-posted to:
- esports@lemmy.zip
- cross-posted to:
- esports@lemmy.zip
Several teams of female gamers have dropped out of the Dead by Daylight Women’s World Cup after trans women were banned.
Several teams of female gamers have dropped out of the Dead by Daylight Women’s World Cup after trans women were banned.
What the fuck does gender or sex have to do with esports? This is just another insecure misogynist skill issue thing like every other competition setting where a man once lost to a woman. So fucking stupid.
chess has a separate women’s division… but they consistently rank lower than men and if it was mixed there would be no women playing at top level matches….
there’s also a separate Grand Master and Women’s Grand Master titles… women can become GM’s but they typically don’t….
i imagine the difference is cultural and comes down to how they’re raised….
It’s not a matter of ability, but instead comes down to a numbers game. There are significantly more men who play chess, so they will be overrepresented at high levels of play while women will be underrepresented.
You see it in many, many non-physical sports. Chess, e-sports, professional poker, etc.
It’s anecdotal, but I myself used to participate in a niche board sport at a professional level. The skill gaps between men and women at the top level is enormous. The boards are electric, so there is little physical sex based advantage, if anything women’s lower centers of gravity is a plus, but there are just significantly fewer women who race competitively. This is evidenced even further by the fact that each of the women at the top level have tremendous skill gaps between one another when compared to the men.
Ultimately, the more competitors you have in any given bracket, the higher the skill ceiling will be pushed.
It’s that and also cultural biases getting into your head. If researchers give women and POCs a math test they do fine. If they give them the same math test but frame it like they want to see how their scores come out vs white men they do much worse. The pressure and judgement gets to you and makes you perform poorly even if no one is directly saying you suck.
i did end my conjecture with “cultural”….
i think it’s more along the lines of “girls play with dolls, boys play with chess and guns” cultural thing….