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posted April 13, 2021 06:22 PM            

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I am on my iPad, and just wanted to share this for now, from a girl who wants to be a professional e-sports player.
http://www.twitlonger.com/show/n_1srlk30

The talk of an old thread about misandry, and how women supposedly have it easier, came to mind after I saw this on Twitter.

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posted April 13, 2021 07:48 PM            

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What does this have to do with Astrology? You can’t just throw a random placement in a subject and then post any topic in an Astrology forum.

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posted April 13, 2021 08:00 PM            

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What does this have to do with Astrology? You can’t just throw a random placement in a subject and then post any topic in an Astrology forum.

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E-sports. Not physical sports. I've seen all kinds of random crap thrown around in this forum, over the years. Mars is supposedly masculine, and this girl is talking about the crap she has had to deal with from boys and grown men, over the years, and she isn't the only one. As a "radical feminist" who doesn't bully men, and has tried repeatedly to talk with them, over the years (empathized, too), I've also dealt with what she's described.

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posted April 13, 2021 08:05 PM            

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There have been some grey areas, but this is so far off in left field. I didn’t move it right away to give you a chance to explain. How does e-sports make it more about Astrology than regular sports?

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posted April 13, 2021 08:07 PM            

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There have been some grey areas, but this is so far off in left field. I didn’t move it right away to give you a chance to explain. How does e-sports make it more about Astrology than regular sports?

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Mars in Gemini, current events. I’ve seen things further afield than this. If you just want to give me crap, could you wait a couple of days? You do know that esports are online, right? Gemini, computers, internet, communication, trash-talking a-holes who think it's even worse when they lose to women, and love to insult them if they end up in a game on their teams (or just quit, because they refuse to play with a girl).

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posted April 13, 2021 08:18 PM            

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That is quite a stretch. This is more of a Sweet Peas topic, but with all the other stuff you are saying, it could go in GU.

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posted April 13, 2021 08:27 PM            

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http://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/07/style/valkyrae-rachell-hofstetter-100-Thieves-Among-Us.html

I've followed her for four years, because she's a good person. She's now the co-owner of the team she signed with three years ago. She's one of the first female co-owners of a multi-million dollar company in esports.

“Rae and Jack have such great instincts in the gaming community, which matters now more than ever because so many young kids want to be entertainers in the digital space,” Mr. Haag said.

The appointment of Valkyrae, the company’s first female owner, is also an acknowledgment of the growing influence of female players, who now make up nearly 41 percent of video game users in the United States, according to Statista.

“My girlfriends and I have been playing video games since we were 6 years old,” Valkyrae said. “It’s not that women gamers are new. What is new is that we are more visible now.”

“When you look at the amount of barriers to participation women face, including outright harassment, you began to see that women are some of the most dedicated players out there,” said T.L. Taylor, a sociologist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and author of “Watch Me Play: Twitch and the Rise of Game Live Streaming.” “These are gamers working that much harder to remain in a culture that is often actively pushing them out.”

This is a real career for a lot of people out there. Drake is a co-owner of 100 Thieves, along with her. Maddy, in the original post, is one of many who have been speaking out, whenever something flares up in the community. I'm not sure how long this has been a thing, because I'm not a kid.

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posted April 13, 2021 09:03 PM            

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Just my guess is that it might fit here Randall (up to you) , as it's a new thing. Kind of like Zoom with face to face time in the new era. E-Sports are new and Teasel found the connection.

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posted April 13, 2021 10:06 PM            

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I get all that. I also understand its novelty. But this is an Astrology forum. I’m not seeing the connection.

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posted April 13, 2021 10:39 PM            

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I forgot to add earlier, that Rae is 29, and having her Saturn return, but I'd just remembered her interview from last week, when Mars was in Gemini, and Venus in Aries. Saturn is in Aquarius, too. She's a Cappy sun, Aquarius Moon, Ascendant in Sagittarius, but I don't know her birth time, she just mentioned this about a month ago. I found her on twitch, because she was playing Zelda: Breath of the Wild, and I wondered what the game was like. I was around for the original Zelda, on nintendo. She was taking care of her terminally ill dad, who passed away five or six weeks later. Had a few hundred viewers, when I found her stream one evening. Last year, there were times when she had 100,000 viewers. I wish I had an official time for her signing with the team, and then becoming a co-owner, but I'll likely only be able to find times for announcements (usually on twitter). She would probably tell me her birth time, if someone asked, but I'm not in the mood to look at it all right now. I also have a cheesecake to make.

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