BBC has proven what most people around the world already know, they don't know what esports is and they sure as hell don't understand Feminism. BBX recently released an Article titled, "100 Woman 2016: The Woman Challenging Sexism in E-sports." The response has been brutal.

I'm for encouraging women into esports, but citing gender disparity wage gaps among top players is ...https://t.co/eYGmMs3eLC — MIOM | Tafo (@tafokints) November 21, 2016

They failed to fact check a few different things and failed to cite critical sources. They even got the basics wrong.

Sorry BBC, the article is full of nonsense and you lost me at "Twitch, the gaming streaming site owned by YouTube" https://t.co/nNRRnCIn6c — ReDeYe (@PaulChaloner) November 21, 2016

Now, the esports community is fighting back. Paul "ReDeYe" Chaloner is a writer for slingshotesports and he wrote a blistering piece that examines multiple errors and disingenuous issues throughout the article.





ReDeYe goes on to say:





"I’ve no idea where they get the figures regarding equality of pay, claiming at one point via a graphic that men get paid a high of $2.6 million a year compared to the top female earner getting $156,000 (which also changes in the text compared to the caption. The small saving graces come from two women I have the utmost respect for, Stephanie Harvey and Julia Kiran, but even here knowing both as I do, I can’t help feel the BBC have chosen to use only selective quotes to make their (very poorly constructed) case for rampant misogyny in esports."





He would be right because this morning Julia Kiran proved his point with her tweet.

They twisted my words in BBC and cut off sentences to make it sound like they wanted it to 🤔 — Julia Kiran (@juliakiran) November 21, 2016

It seems BBC wanted a more edgy and inaccurate take on sexism in esports and were willing to make up lies to feed the fuel. Yeah, it's my generation that's the problem.