🎶 🙌 The music of Hearthstone is now available on Bandcamp!
https://t.co/hrIXI9hzxZ
Grab your favorite tracks and take the Tavern with you wherever you go!
🤯 The easiest way to remember Celsius to Fahrenheit: every 12°C, the digits are inverted.
04°C = 40°F
16°C = 61°F
28°C = 82°F
40°C = (1)04°F
52°C = (1)25°F
One of the first chat messages when I appeared on the tournament broadcast was:
“Jambre nepoed his wife into the event ofc.”
Another viewer asked whether the participants were pro players. Someone replied: “Yes, but not BabyBear.”
Before I played a game, before I appeared on the casting desk. Just me introducing myself on stream.
Somehow that was enough for strangers to decide that my husband must have secured my invitation and that everyone else qualified as a serious player except me.
This is what women mean when we say our own merits are often treated as invisible. Years of competing, creating content, reaching high Legend and contributing to the community can be dismissed instantly, because some people find it easier to believe a man put us there than that we earned the opportunity ourselves.
I usually don’t interact with comments like this. Most of the time, “just ignore them” is genuinely the best thing to do. But if we ignore every example, it becomes very easy for people to pretend this attitude no longer exists.
To the women trying to compete, create and take up space in male-dominated scenes: keep doing your thing. You do not need every stranger’s permission to belong.
And to the men who see this behaviour: call it out. Don't just look the other way. Make it clear that reducing a woman’s work to the man in her life is not harmless banter and isn’t acceptable in the communities we share.
I had the best time at the event and these comments don't take anything away from that, but I do believe it's important to share and call out this behavior. 🙌