I am a 60-year-old woman who doesn't play (except solo Minecraft) but I like to watch gameplay on Twitch. The vast majority of gamers, and I'm including the really terrific ones that I watch, rarely seem to even realize that there could be women watching their streams. I use the same name on Twitch that I do on DU (KatyaR) and pretty much no one acknowledges me as female. That, plus the all of the sexual talk and gameplay (rainbow penises in the air in Minecraft--really?) leaves me really frustrated. I've limited my viewing of some of my favorite streamers because I can't handle the talk.
I think the topper was the PUBG competition during TwitchCon; afterwards, one of the lurkers in a chat commented on "how nice it was to see so many women participating." Not five minutes later, the chat was throwing sexual innuendo around like it was nothing. 
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