How big is the problem of misogyny in poker and what can we do to solve it? GO!
Wow! Shit just got serious!
Yh I think it's a massive problem. If you look at the way women are talked about it's continually in reference to the way they look. Annette's recent wait loss, whether she's hot or not is continually mentioned both just in general chat and also in the more formalised poker media. Last year when there was all that ADZ chat about Lauren Kling people just lapped it up. There was real glee about the public humiliation of an attractive girl.
Think two things need to happen. Firstly poker media just need to be responsible with way they depict female poker players and we as a community just need to side step worst excesses of sexist discourse.
This of course is a societal issue that exists outside of poker but it is particularly prominent inside our community.
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I kinda feel that the Ladies' Event works too much as a stop gap these days. People assume it helps but I don't think it does. WSOP/EPT/WPT need to give active roles to women/minorities and ask them, "What can we do better?" Then listen and take every piece of advice. Something like actual women's committees and not just including people like Vanessa Selbst, but lower stakes women. It would need to cover a wide range.
As for the media side of things, I know several people who work at places like Pokernews who are still set in certain ways of thinking with no idea of their privilege. Bluff regularly holding their WSOP party at a strip club hardly helps.
It's not just them though, when Iveypoker signed up Lucille Cailly, the very first thing they have in her bio is how pretty she is. I mean fuck you, seriously. This is a woman who came second in one of the toughest events of the year winning about a million euros and had like 90% of her own action after swaps and her looks are the first thing you mention?
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