5/30/2023 0 Comments Hot tub meta![]() If they don't feel this is the kind of enviroment they want to create for women streamers and also watchers. I don't think it would be right to blame Twitch for misogyny if they started to interfere with this somehow. I see it more as a question, does it have to be on Twitch? There fortunately are other venues more dedicated for this kind of stuff. It's not enough to be funny, smart, skilled and entertaining streamer, you need to do it in a bikini. Yet it can and probably will contribute to the pressures of sexualization that women face. And the blame is absolutely not on the women doing this in Twitch. Makes me wonder if this is how people reacted to pool streams and the like. In other words, this new Twitch meta isn't that big of a deal. It seems to me y'all are underemphasizing a couple things here, also: one, there are a bunch of great female streamers out there, the most successful are quite family friendly, and to the extent public perception of female streamers is oriented around hot tubs or whatever, that no doubt reflects larger cultural issues and two, for all the success some are getting from purchasing a camera and a hot tub, that path to success is not by any means guaranteed. Not an actual problem: the existence of women who flaunt their bodies somehow resulting in less liberties for women overall. Like, this is a bit of a manufactured problem, no? Actual problems: the stigma attached to certain bodies, the higher threshold for certain groups of people to succeed on a platform like Twitch, and just.misogyny, in general. This argument is giving me strong "parents slut shame a high school girl for wearing revealing clothing under the pretense that it is making other girls insecure" vibes.
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