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When looking at competitive fields like E-Sports, which is making a lot of millionaires[0], but is >99% male dominated, almost entirely by Asians or Whites, what should we make of that?

Do the results mean the system is necessarily unfair?

Should we enact laws that force tournaments to hand top results to female players? What about racial minorities?

If not, what should we do about the inequality here?

0-https://www.esportsearnings.com/players

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> Should we enact laws that force tournaments to hand top results to female players? What about racial minorities?

I think there's a lot that can be done that will be more effective than that.

https://kotaku.com/5889415/this-is-what-a-gamers-sexual-hara... http://www.businessinsider.com/the-esports-racism-problem-20...

etc. There's dozens of these stories covered, which means there's probably hundreds of incidents at the top levels, and thousands or tens of thousands among people just started out.

The most popular and financially successful streamer in the world has normalized straight-up racism.

I agree with you that there are problems with racism and sexism in gaming. In fact, as a gamer I have unfortunately seen this myself. Gamers can be really, really awful.

I also know that the bullying and bad behavior is not isolated to victims that are women or minorities.

And another point: is it possible boys just like playing computer games more than girls?

> is it possible boys just like playing computer games more than girls?

No.

See, e.g., https://kotaku.com/teenage-girls-are-playing-video-games-you...

And any one of about three trillion articles about what a cesspool male gamers create online.

Thanks for the response.

By the way, how were you able to respond so quickly?

It's a question that comes up frequently and has a wealth of disproving information readily available on the internet (not to mention it's a fairly nonsense question.)

Hah, oh ok. Sorry for asking you such a nonsense question.

But my most recent query was about 'how did you respond so quickly' as in are you literally refreshing the page or do you have some kind of notification system for comments?

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