Discover Ailujsc — Part Time Streamer and Role Model
Team Dignitas’ Steve Farrant recently interviewed Julia Childress, a Diamond league protoss player from Vancouver, Canada, where she streams regularly on TwitchTV and goes by the name Ailuj. She made her first major tournament appearance on the main stage at MLG Providence in a match against zerg player Hwang “IM.LosirA” Kang Ho and has since continued to promote the StarCraft II eSports scene and interact with the community and her growing audience.
Gender doesn't matter in SC2. When you play ladder, do you sit there and wonder if your opponent is female or male? Most people probably assume they're playing against a male, I know even I do. Would it matter if you found out your opponent was a girl? Maybe if a particularly proud male found out he'd lost to a girl he'd be a bit bitter or even feel the need to BM, but for the most part, if there were more girls around playing StarCraft no one would think twice about it.
I guess the only reason it's perceived to matter now is because there are so few girls that play, and everyone's still trying to figure out how to classify us. In reality, we're the exact same as men who play; we have people in bronze, we have people in GM. Just the fact that there is a smaller population of us is what differs at all, but I really believe that we're a representative sample of the StarCraft community as a whole.
I guess the only reason it's perceived to matter now is because there are so few girls that play, and everyone's still trying to figure out how to classify us. In reality, we're the exact same as men who play; we have people in bronze, we have people in GM. Just the fact that there is a smaller population of us is what differs at all, but I really believe that we're a representative sample of the StarCraft community as a whole.
You can check out the full interview here, and follow Julia on Twitter here.
Comments (22)
What's the point of this post, really?
Master zerg girl stream.
I don't mind to play against a few, and if I lose, it's no big deal because losing to a girl is NOTHING TO ASHAMED OF. To me, girls deserve every victory they can get. It's a matter of equal rights, dont you think ?
Maybe bliz is just spreading these words to socially strange people who play this game.
Like @megumixbear (http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=234553)
Most of better girly players are listed on teamliquid thread.
(http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=259063)
why is this on the frontpage? nobody cares if you're male or female and nobody should garner attention because of that fact.
It's posts like this that re-enforce the "females are bad gamers" stereotyping, by making such a big thing out of 1 girl who made it to the diamond league, (as if blizzard are implying that diamond is good.. for a girl) .
Plus this crap reeks of "im a girl gamer, who plays games. did i mention im a girl? cause i play games and im a girl" which infuriates me more than anything.
- if that's the case, why is there a big interview with some random diamond player on bnet news?
I think its great women are playing sc2, but these are the things that annoys alot of people. when they're so low ranked but still get attention.
I'd much rather get an interview with the korean GM gurl tbh.