What can we do to stop sexism in League of Legends?

Mariah CARRY LOL·Mar 4, 2015·2 votes·1,766 views

42 out of the 123 champions are female. 10 out of the 12 most banned are female.

Nidalee
Lissandra
Irelia
LeBlanc
Kalista
Jarvan IV
Vi
Zed
Ahri
Katarina
Rek'sai
Riven

http://www.lolking.net/champions/

14 Comments

IcyPepperMar 4, 20154 votes

10 out of the 12 most banned are female.

Isn't that a good thing? If bans are usually saved for powerful champions a team does not want to face, doesn't that mean that the top most intimidating champions are female? That's girl power if I've ever seen it.

TsugagaMar 4, 20153 votes

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Isn't that a good thing? If bans are usually saved for powerful champions a team does not want to face, doesn't that mean that the top most intimidating champions are female? That's girl power if I've ever seen it.

Sexism goes both ways, it's not just male > female.

IcyPepperMar 4, 20151 votes

I agree, though I figured that aspect would offset (slightly) the smaller pool of female champions.

I think the best way to solve this problem is to have more female champions, and some champions that go outside the gender binary (robots/monsters without any gender identity, etc) and other ideas.

There is going to be some slightly skewed numbers, but as long as it's completely coincidental (you can't stop people banning Vi or Nidalee) and not a correlation (let's make every female/male champion overpowered!), it shouldn't be too much of an issue.

SionideCNMar 4, 20151 votes

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I agree, though I figured that aspect would offset (slightly) the smaller pool of female champions.

I think the best way to solve this problem is to have more female champions, and some champions that go outside the gender binary (robots/monsters without any gender identity, etc) and other ideas.

There is going to be some slightly skewed numbers, but as long as it's completely coincidental (you can't stop people banning Vi or Nidalee) and not a correlation (let's make every female/male champion overpowered!), it shouldn't be too much of an issue.

Uh, we have a lot of characters that don't have an apparent gender.

Kog'maw, Cho'Gath, Kha'Zix, Nocturne, Fiddlesticks.

Need I go on?

IcyPepperMar 4, 20151 votes

Pretty sure the Void creatures have genders, like how Rek'Sai is female.

I think Blitzrank doesn't have an assigned gender, but I should have clarified that I meant more champions like Fiddlesticks and such. And maybe more champions like Leona too.