Friday, March 20, 2015

The issue with male video game stream watchers.

                    Female Streamers and their "inability" to cover up have been the new trend these days in the video game world. Sky Williams posted a few tweets and videos suggesting that female streamers who happen to show cleavage/skin/etc. are. in essence, degrading female streamers everywhere. This problem was something that I considered the other day as I was on a female streamer's twitch channel. I found the channel incredibly boring (and the title was misleading). When I voiced my opinion in the chat, a horde of angry followers rose up in defense. It seemed pretty clear that her following comprised of mostly men, many of which seemed to be projecting their own social outcast in the dating world onto her. And that just rubbed me the wrong way. But I realize now that the fact that men decide to use streams for purposes other than the intended purpose of the stream is a problem for only men.  But Raymond! Obviously if a streamer like Kaceytron has her cleavage showing, hordes of male viewers are going to watch her play not for the games, but for the cleavage. Ok. So what? That's Kaceytron's choice and any other female streamer's choice. Just because they are showing cleavage doesn't mean their intent is seduce men. They may not honestly give a fuck about whether men come or not. Maybe they just enjoy playing videos games in what ever their wearing. Even if women outright made it clear that they were going to use seduction to entice men to watch their streams that doesn't change the fact that men could simply ignore the streams. But what men cannot and should not do is demand women streamers to change their attire and shame women for not adhering to what they want. Stop it. I'm tired of crap like that happening. If you find her stream superfluous, then don't watch it. If you think it has great and riveting content, keep watching, cleavage or not. In the end of the day, women streamers don't have an issue, male viewers do.