DisguisedToast hits out at Valorant \u201cincels\u201d for driving women away from gaming Instagram: disguisedtoast \/ Riot GamesTwitch streamer DisguisedToast is taking aim at \u201cincels\u201d in games like Valorant for driving women away from the gaming scene. It\u2019s no secret that the online gaming world can be an unfriendly place for women from time to time. Plenty of women in gaming have spoken out about sexist treatment from male teammates in multiplayer titles like Overwatch and Valorant, with streamer IShowSpeed most recently getting banned from the latter for making sexist remarks toward a female player. Twitch star DisguisedToast spoke out on the matter during an April 2022 broadcast, where he hit out at toxic male players for essentially driving women out of the space \u2014 or, more specifically, \u201cincels.\u201d \u201cThe thing I don\u2019t get about incels in video games is that incels are mad that they can\u2019t get girls,\u201d he began. \u201cSo, it seems so counterproductive to drive away women from gaming.\u201d \u201cLike, I\u2019m a recovering incel, and I love women. You know what I want? I want way more women in gaming because more women in gaming means more chances of me interacting with women.\u201d \u201cSo, even if you treat women like objects \u2014 which you shouldn\u2019t by the way, women are individuals who should be treated with respect \u2014 it seems so stupid to disrespect women in gaming, \u2019cause you\u2019re driving away the thing you want. Like, are you stupid?\u201d (Topic begins at 0:45) This isn\u2019t the first time Toast has hit out at sexism in Valorant; last month, he slammed a commenter for sympathizing with Valorant streamer JasonR, who came under fire for refusing to play with women. It\u2019s clear that Toast doesn\u2019t have time for sexism in his multiplayer games \u2014 something that Riot has also taken a hard stance on by banning iShowSpeed from all of their titles over his sexist outburst.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
DisguisedToast hits out at Valorant \u201cincels\u201d for driving women away from gaming Instagram: disguisedtoast \/ Riot GamesTwitch streamer DisguisedToast is taking aim at \u201cincels\u201d in games like Valorant for driving women away from the gaming scene. It\u2019s no secret that the online gaming world can be an unfriendly place for women from time to time. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47020\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}