So I got food poisoning last night, so this might be even more rambly than usual.
I started RPing...does stealing my dad's D&D book to teach myself to read count? I'm on only child so... I watched dad play games on the Commodore and in Jr. High and High school during lunch and weekends and such. And those guys spoiled me because while they thought it was cool I played, but not because I was a girl. But they were my alternate big brothers so sex was never a thing for me. So honestly OMG a girl was a bit of a shock for me.
I very much believe in equal pay for equal work. And I think that's why bikini streamers bother me so much; as much as I go on and on about being a bad player, I'm not really that bad otherwise I wouldn't have the subs that I do, my voice is nowhere near that sexy. But most of these women really are bad. They get the subs, sure because people want to oogle them and I mean people pay monthly subscriptions to see their content, not just people subscribed to the channel. You could argue that they put in just as much work as normal streamers. And a 5'2" woman who can barely lift a bag of potatoes is probably going to do more work than a 6'2" walking block of muscle fireman - and in this case I think she should be paid just as much as the man. But gaming is the work, and they just don't do it.
It just makes it harder for women who just want to be gamers. Or... women online really. I'm not knocking sexuality, I'm knocking the women who use that sexuality because all it does is make it okay for other people to treat other women like that. Like the example above about TS and owing... I have had multiple people ask me if Theno and I were dating, because we've recorded some videos together. More recently I've been asked if I'm dating one of my Twitter followers because he likes every tweet I do. Mostly "Hey, check out this video!" tweets, but the occasional random thing too.. He's also a gamer and we haven't recorded anything yet - and now I'm a little afraid too because that might be like a proposal or something at this point.
I'm a gamer. I can game without having a boyfriend who got me into gaming. When I played tabletop I was usually the only girl there, but I was never there because I was the GM's girlfriend. I saved up the 5k gold I needed for a flying mount without having to fuck anyone to do it. I should be able to play a female character and not have complete strangers want to TS me because I'm a female behind the screen or whatever. And things have gotten better. The best way to fix it as a group though is basically what has been done; The non-dicks need to stand up and say that it isn't okay. That it won't be tolerated. Teach your sons not to be dicks! I mean really, we're all of an age now. Some of us have kids. If you don't want it to be an issue, on the street or in VR, teach them that it's wrong. That it's wrong to treat women that way, and that it's wrong to let others think it's okay to treat women that way.
TL;DR Thanks guys who aren't dicks for not being dicks. Keep it up!
