{"id":50674,"date":"2022-12-04T10:45:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-04T10:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/?p=50674"},"modified":"2022-12-17T14:07:06","modified_gmt":"2022-12-17T14:07:06","slug":"its-a-girl-the-overlooked-torment-of-women-in-gaming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/its-a-girl-the-overlooked-torment-of-women-in-gaming\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;It&#8217;s a girl?!&#8217; &#8211; The overlooked torment of women in gaming"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Twitch streamer TheZoeNova opens up about her encounters with sexism and abuse amongst the gaming community<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s year 2022 but the gaming community is stuck in the early 2000s with the frightening amounts of misogyny and harassment female gamers and streamers face on a daily basis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.twitch.tv\/thezoenova\" title=\"https:\/\/www.twitch.tv\/thezoenova\">TheZoeNova<\/a>, or Zoe, 19, a creator on the popular streaming platform <a href=\"https:\/\/www.twitch.tv\/\" title=\"https:\/\/www.twitch.tv\/\">Twitch.tv<\/a> shared her story and let us dive deep into the harassment she&#8217;s experienced just because of her gender and sexuality by other gamers as well as viewers. To find out more check out the video!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Content warning:<\/strong> misogynism and strong language<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"&quot;It&#039;s a girl?!&quot; - The overlooked torment of women in gaming\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/N6CnKzsQ5G0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Gaming statistics<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/statistics\/300513\/gaming-by-demographic-group-uk\/\">88% of 18-24 year-olds take part in gaming in the UK<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamesindustry.biz\/esa-48-percent-of-video-game-players-are-female-and-29-percent-identify-as-people-of-color\">48% of all gamers are women<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/esports-news.co.uk\/2021\/11\/12\/britain-proportion-female-viewers-gaming-streams-yougov-data-report\/\">36% of gaming content followers are women in the UK<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/news\/study-female-streamers-less-likely-to-be-paid-than-men\">47% of female streamers don&#8217;t get paid in the US<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/news\/study-female-streamers-less-likely-to-be-paid-than-men\">76% of women hide their gender when gaming due to harassment<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/news\/study-female-streamers-less-likely-to-be-paid-than-men\">Over a quarter of women in gaming are sexually harassed<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Video: Lumi Leinonen | Words: Lumi Leinonen | Subbing: Aleksandra Martynow<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twitch streamer TheZoeNova opens up about her encounters with sexism and abuse amongst the gaming community It&#8217;s year 2022 but the gaming community is stuck in the early 2000s with the frightening amounts of misogyny&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":476,"featured_media":50804,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,82,128,139,140],"tags":[6401],"class_list":["post-50674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gaming","category-lifestyle","category-top-story","category-video","category-video-games","tag-top-story"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/476"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50674"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52120,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50674\/revisions\/52120"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}