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Resident scholar, AEI. Former philosophy professor. Author of War Against Boys. Host of YouTube’s The Factual Feminist & co-host of weekly podcast @Femsplainers

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    Christina Sommers‏Verified account @CHSommers 20h20 hours ago

    Christina Sommers Retweeted TicToc by Bloomberg

    Here we go again. They count Candy Crush players as gamers. My take on this kind of lazy, misleading analysis. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MxqSwzFy5w …https://twitter.com/tictoc/status/1080860735817875463 …

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    45% of U.S. gamers are female, yet women make up a very small portion of the esports player pool due to toxicity and other barriers pic.twitter.com/dGFu8i2HXR
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      1. Rich‏ @riicchiriicch 12h12 hours ago
        Replying to @CHSommers

        pic.twitter.com/ZKkQp8wqzs

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      2. Aleksandar Vidaković‏ @sashafrp 7h7 hours ago
        Replying to @CHSommers @Grummz

        Don't know if you noticed, i posted this as a response. Whenever you see nonsense like this, give them this, it is a site with actual data. Doubt they would pay attention, though, it is just outrage clickbate article. They lie on purpose.https://quanticfoundry.com/2017/01/19/female-gamers-by-genre/ …

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      2. Aladdin‏ @RealNameAladdiN 19h19 hours ago
        Replying to @CHSommers

        If you wanna know even more about women in esports. I'll tell you what happens. In counter strike. Girls have 3 tournaments per year that is female exclusive. The females are free to play in all tournaments all year(those that pseudo feminists say are male only) but don't qualify

        2 replies . 0 retweets 12 likes
      3. Aladdin‏ @RealNameAladdiN 19h19 hours ago
        Replying to @RealNameAladdiN @CHSommers

        So is it sexist to have female only tournaments? Or should we just raise the prize pool for female tournaments to match males (30k 40k for female compared to 1million for normal tournaments) even if the normal tournament get more viewers, more people on the arena etc etc

        0 replies . 0 retweets 7 likes
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      1. Mark Simpson‏ @batma_rk 20h20 hours ago
        Replying to @CHSommers

        Aren't all identities marginalised in anonymous spaces? What am I missing?pic.twitter.com/NYRE8Kdq8v

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      2. Kharn‏ @Kharnivore2099 20h20 hours ago
        Replying to @CHSommers

        I just find it odd that all of the guys in esports weren't stopped by toxicity and harassment. It's almost like it's not to do with gender at all, but about REALLY wanting to get into the industry despite the challenges. Most people just aren't cut out for it or have the skill.

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      1. Aidan Kelly‏ @Thatmathguy47 20h20 hours ago
        Replying to @CHSommers

        BuT iT iS JuST aN UnTaPPed MaRkEtpic.twitter.com/SBwuVzwJUe

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      2. JR‏ @arjendre 12h12 hours ago
        Replying to @CHSommers

        They fail to mention that the the top earning female in e-sports is transgender... https://www.esportsearnings.com/players/female-players … https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scarlett_(video_game_player) …pic.twitter.com/NXiHE66Jon

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      3. XGP‏ @freestylexgp 9h9 hours ago
        Replying to @arjendre @CHSommers

        Same with the third place.

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      2. Ryan‏ @brightrockmedia 20h20 hours ago
        Replying to @CHSommers

        If you talk about games to a girl at a bar, 9/10 times she'll say "eww nerd" and laugh at you to your face. a more true statistic. or she'll have heard of exactly one game and try to talk about it, which is perhaps worse.

        2 replies . 0 retweets 17 likes
      3. 7 Screaming Diz-Busters‏ @DizBusters 12h12 hours ago
        Replying to @brightrockmedia @CHSommers

        Even even worse, she has blue hair and talks about her overwatch fanfic

        1 reply . 0 retweets 0 likes
      4. Ryan‏ @brightrockmedia 10h10 hours ago
        Replying to @DizBusters @CHSommers

        Well there goes my chance of sleeping tonight 🤣🤣🤣

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      1. DarcV‏ @DarcV4 20h20 hours ago
        Replying to @CHSommers

        I play Wordscapes on my phone and couldn’t tell you the right side up of a game controller my kids play with. I am most definitely not a gamer

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      2. Manzell B‏ @ManzellBeezy 13h13 hours ago
        Replying to @CHSommers

        I'm not fully sure that Candy Crush gamers should not be counted? Like I agree there's a big diff... but I don't know if you can make a case that women 'aren't interested' in gaming for some biological reason.

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      3. Eric‏ @obsidianshards 12h12 hours ago
        Replying to @ManzellBeezy @CHSommers

        Absolutely, Candy Crush players should be counted as "Gamers". But equating Candy Crush players to professional e-sports players, is like saying "Sure, I play football. I was the best QB in my 6th grade class." "Gamers" are a wide and vast group of varied people.

        1 reply . 0 retweets 4 likes
      4. Manzell B‏ @ManzellBeezy 12h12 hours ago
        Replying to @obsidianshards @CHSommers

        So, 25 years ago there were no esports. 0 men playing esports, 0 women playing esports. Where did those men who play esports now come from? Why did significantly fewer women start playing esports over that same time period? There's a legitimate question in here.

        2 replies . 0 retweets 0 likes
      5. Kelly‏ @WolfKingDice3 12h12 hours ago
        Replying to @ManzellBeezy @obsidianshards @CHSommers

        Why is cosmetology a female dominated career and why hasn't there been a push to get more men involved? Different strokes for different folks.

        0 replies . 0 retweets 3 likes
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      2. Tucki Allan Coe‏ @PersecutedTurt1 6h6 hours ago
        Replying to @CHSommers @ty2010b

        It is. It's like counting cultural anthropology and sociology in "STEM." Really misleading.

        1 reply . 0 retweets 1 like
      3. HUNTED BULLY (pls no bully)  🚬  🎈 🇨🇿‏ @ty2010b 6h6 hours ago
        Replying to @PersecutedTurt1 @CHSommers

        TBF you really have to know how to game stats in sociology

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      4. Tucki Allan Coe‏ @PersecutedTurt1 6h6 hours ago
        Replying to @ty2010b @CHSommers

        we called them data poolers in my program. We do under-the-scope lab research, test hypotheses for accuracy, figure out functionality, and then they get to sit on their asses all day, look at OUR data, and interpret it however they wish

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