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The nine most terrifying words in the English language are “I’m from the government and I’m here to help” – Ronald Reagan
Female gamers. Urban Legend or hidden deep in society?
As you might have gathered, I am a very active gamer. Especially playing Starcraft 2 has recently grasped my mind. While I was browsing TeamLiquid, a forum / website about a gaming community / professional team, I noticed a featured thread that was related to female gaming. The essence of this article was that the Electronic Sports League (ESL) has launched a female-only tournament website, where girls from all across the globe can compete with eachother. First off, I very much promote the fact that women get more of a visible presence in the eSports community. However what I am so very much against is the separate leagues that they deem neccesary.
One major concern that you often hear from the female community (and the occasional, actually decent, guy), is that women get way too much bullshit on their neck because they have been born female and happen to have a pair of boobs. A vast majority of the male demographic is reacting immature due to this fact and basicly show a mindset of “Oh it has a vagoo so I can hit on it or make it feel like shit because I must be superior”. I hate that behaviour. One thing I used to do when I played WoW, was to make sure that in my guild there was atleast one female officer, one who could back up the position without needing their physical treats. It created equality in the guild, and of course there were the playfull “sammich” jokes, but we had everything under control where people wouldn’t cross a line. And it worked!
Women are at all times equal to the man. They are human and they should be treated like a human. Not like a pair of boobs with a vagoo that likes it up the ass, so to speak. Which is why I personally feel that the use of gender-specific tournaments or sports are on the err… side of things. I think it’s quite understandable in football (or soccer for you Americans) due to the physical aspects of being different genders. However in a game like Starcraft 2, you won’t win the game because you’ve got good looks. You win the game because you as player are better at what you do and how you do it.
Why do you women need to separate yourself from the male demographic in specific tournaments. It will not give you any increased respect, rather you may be trolled and offended even more because creepers will use the names and the information to contact more women. You put yourself in a position where you’re vunerable as the average man will see the lack of women participating in male-dominated tournaments as a sign that you’d be “worse” than them, thus disturbing this equilibrium we should aim to achieve.
How do you get the respect of male gamers as a girl? Not with your body. That will make you get marked as a slut,whore and whatnot.No, you join the competition and you show you can manage to compete, rather than having a separate league to put yourself as different. Come on and show us males that you’re here to kick ass and dominate the game like you are capable of. Show men they aren’t. But remember one thing
You are not special because you have a vagoo or a pair of boobs. In Gaming that is.
Rant 002 :D
As some of you may have understood, I am going to China on an internship this summer. I’ll be in the city of Xiamen for a period of 5 months, in which I will focus on the awareness of information security within the company. One might ask, why is Michael going towards China? Well I’ll tell you that right away. For me, China is a place full of rich history, history that interests me. I like the changes that happened in the country, without judging if it were for the better or the worst. A second point is the fact that for my field of work, there will be a major market for professionals like me once I finish my studies. The growth of IT and security is an important aspect for any organisation and where is it better to start in the country where these practices are still new and fresh.
Thirdly, I am interested in the different culture. I have some cultural differences with other people, such as being very direct. This is a problem at times even though I feel comfortable with speaking my mind. (I am called extremely direct by even the very direct Dutch). Go figure!
Fourth, the reason is personal growth. I’ve once said I want to learn the language of all the “super powers” in this world, that being English, Chinese and Russian. It’s a bonus asset for a security expert to be able to speak one of the biggest languages in the world, one that’s growing more and more important over the years. Myself I see it very possible that in a year or 10-20, the United States of America will be smaller and less significant than China, especially seeing the terrible mismanagement in the western world. I do have to say that I have yet to experience the Chinese way of managing and such.
If you look at this paragraph, you can see that I am really unhappy about the way western countries are led by their governments. We’re all following a hollow shell of lies and promises that’s called “political parties”. One example of this would be that the Netherlands voted with an astounding NO to a European Constitution. Over 70% of the voters was against this proposal, and yet the Dutch government buckles for the ideology called “Europa”. Our government, filled with spineless, moral-lacking bastards have betrayed the country by agreeing on the European Consitutional Laws, something that is completely and directly against the basic principle of a constitution.
What’s the problem here? Well it’s bloody simple.Politicians pull power and might towards themselves. Once they have their power consolidated and expand on it, they stop listening to the people of the country. We dislike something with a percentage of over 70%, and still we get buttfucked by the government. Now we’re supposed to pay even more to this union of swindlers and con-men, namely the European Union. We’re all losing our own identity the longer this farce keeps going. I do not know the situation in China, nor do I really have the focus on it. One thing I can not do is blog about it but that’s fine. As opposed to the luxury of the Western World, I see that China is developping itself. Step by step it’s improving and they move forward.
Moving on from this subject, I am really looking forward to visit China. It’s a great adventure and I am sure I’ll be baffled by a lot of things that are different between my home and China. For now, I am stressing out like mad to get all the paperwork, medication and alike sorted out so that I can go and be there for a long time (5 months). One thing I have to give you guys. Do not think this is cheap. My estimated costs including flight, rent, food, travel, laptop and a video camera comes nearby the 10k. Of course, there’s a few parts where I can bail out rather cheaply but even then I will be paying a lot.
I mentioned a video camera, by the way. I did this because I’ve strongly been considering to get a reasonable camera with extra battery pack(s) to record the experience in China whenever I can. For me, it gives more of a satisfaction as I literally can see the things I’ve done. No, I won’t make it some vlog where I stare into a camera and rant randomly. I want you as viewer of the video (once I return) to consider yourself to experience what I’ve seen.
Drawing
I was a little bored so I decided to try a little with my tablet. This picture resembles a star observatory hidden in the mountains.
