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[–] 37 points 5 days ago (8 children)

Why is this gender segregated???

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  • [–] 37 points 5 days ago (3 children)

    I'm going to guess that creating more categories and divisions produce more winners which reinforce interest in the activity. In this case, we get a news article about a new record, even if it isn't the record.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 days ago

    Yeah, it's pretty acceptable in any activity where those with interest in it are predominantly of one gender, because the sample size inevitably biases them to win.

    I often think about the surprising accurate assumption that many women in game development are trans women, sometimes used in transphobic rhetoric, but there is an obvious through line between people who are socialised male but feel out of place ending up in less social, online hobbies (coding and gaming) due to that blend of expectations and ostracization.

    I'm a teacher and it's pretty obvious from a young age how almost all gendered skills are entirely that way due to social expectation.

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