Guild Wars 2

Hi all (or to be more precise, half of you),
I saw the TeamParadigm all female team recruitment. I’m not nearly good enough to even apply, but I love the idea.
Playing spvp will teach me some stuff, but it won’t get me to perform decently in a tpvp team ever. I just got my own account after playing on someone else’s account for a while, so I’m currently only r9. I don’t want to accept random guild invites, but it would be nice if there was a way to find people who are just starting out, who would love to get some tpvp done with a decent (and forgiving!) team, working to get better and who knows, start climbing those ladders when they finally happen. And then, why not with an all-female team?
So I started my own little spvp guild Hormonia [PMS]. I’m not tied to any server but it’s EU. Any homicidal women out there who feel like making a beginners tpvp team together? Just to see if we can pull something decent off?
If you do, pm or mail Nee Neem in-game. Thanks!

(not sure if this should have been posted in the looking-for-guild forum, but this is about a tpvp team)

Not a female, but completely support the idea. Grouping with easy-going ppl who still want to learn and win is what I am looking for as well, so gl with the all-girls team.

More importantly: Love your name. If you say you play a necro main, it is even better

I’m struggling to see the reasoning behind an all female team. What purpose does this serve besides segregating? Is it subtly saying they (women) aren’t welcome in male teams, that they have to make their own instead?

Is it an effort (if they win) to turn around and say “See, girls are good gamers too!” which by default suggests people assume they aren’t.

It all seems very condescending in an attempt at appearing PC. I should also add that your team name, Hormonia [PMS], while I’m sure is intended to be tongue in cheek, is also very inappropriate and only serves to encourage a negative stereotype.

Very poor taste.

There’s plenty of X nationality Guilds. Whats the difference in a female only guild? I personally dont see the added value in seperated guilds like this but i dont see why they cant do it.

I thought the name was funny too. Nothing wrong with making a little fun of yourself.

GankSinatra.2653:

There’s plenty of X nationality Guilds. Whats the difference in a female only guild? I personally dont see the added value in seperated guilds like this but i dont see why they cant do it.

I thought the name was funny too. Nothing wrong with making a little fun of yourself.

There are nationality guilds based on the ability to communicate with one another easily. It wouldn’t be of much value for a Japanese player to join a German guild where neither can communicate. Where sex is concerned, there really should be no barrier of entry.

My guild has several female players and they are rightly shown equal treatment. Their gender has absolutely nothing to do with it, simply their game ability and personality is the most important factor.

As for the name and although I’m far from PC, it’s hardly humorous and I would imagine many women I know would actually find it rather sad.

Not a female, but I’ll support the initiative with a post!

Lewis Burnell.2493:

I’m struggling to see the reasoning behind an all female team. What purpose does this serve besides segregating? Is it subtly saying they (women) aren’t welcome in male teams, that they have to make their own instead?

Is it an effort (if they win) to turn around and say “See, girls are good gamers too!” which by default suggests people assume they aren’t.

It all seems very condescending in an attempt at appearing PC. I should also add that your team name, Hormonia [PMS], while I’m sure is intended to be tongue in cheek, is also very inappropriate and only serves to encourage a negative stereotype.

Very poor taste.

Gaming communities everywhere have major sexism issues. On one hand, female players seem to get a lot of kitten (compared to male players, often unintended but still not excusable) in mixed teams, especially if everyone else there is male. The attitude that ‘girls’ are automatically bad at videogames is still very real. Sometimes coupled with the notion that they’re invading gamers’ personal space by doing a man’s job. On the other hand, all-female teams are a really shallow way for pro communities not to look sexist, born from the same thought processes that brought us all kinds of segregation systems.

Good job from you to aim to have an actual mature, fun guild, but the problem goes pretty deep. Basically, if you’re a woman making a team to have fun in, all-female is probably a great idea. If you’re male and want to appear progressive, oh god.

Umm… the question actually is: why not? I just want to try it. I’m not a manhater or such, in fact, I love men. They are cute and rude and adorable and sissies and bravehearts and the whole enchilada inbetween. I’ve been in pvp guilds where women were few. I don’t have any trauma from that.
And now I just want to try this. I have no hidden agenda. I’m just curious if it would work. I’m actually not that sure that it’d work. And yes, the name does poke fun at women and at gender-bias. Hey, if we can’t laugh at ourselves anymore, THAT’d be a sad day. And if women can’t laugh with it, then they shouldn’t apply. I only need 4 others, I’m not out for world dominance (we have that already).

Oh and by the way, my main IS a necro.

guys here haven’t heard of the thing called “sorority” in college.

Awesome
I main a necro as well (and called her Dheuva … seemed fitting; even made her look indian).

GL with the team; hope you find some nice girls to game with