bicycleforratswhymeoProbably avoiding the combined racism and sexism they'd deal with that is prevalent in most gaming communities.
this is absolutely too true. anyone who's ever done preschool would remember the black girls who would always try playing on our (boys) gameboys, but the teachers would slap the devices out of their hands and tell them, "you will never be able to play video games, because you are a stupid <n-word> BIMBO!" could you even imagine of all the millions of wonderful talented black girls we would have in the esports scene if institutional racism wasnt a thing? smh...
I went into Seagull's stream and he had a girl on his team in GM, pretty much the entire chat thought that there's no way she could have gotten into GM without getting carried with other people saying "I can't believe a girl is GM and I can't get out of diamond."
I've also played with my friend and people would just yell at her in game just for being a girl, so now she just won't talk until she's sure our teammates are cool.
It's still a problem.