Bluffing the Chauvinists
An interesting perspective from a female competitor in the male dominated world of professional poker. Everything from the positives:
Nobody is setting your salary. There aren't a lot of the negatives that happen in business where you won't get promoted because your boss is a chauvinistic ass-hole, or you are getting paid less than your male colleagues, that stuff doesn't exist here because you are playing by your own wits, it's our own money, and you're just winning money according to how much better in the game you are.
To the negatives:
I got called very bad names on a daily basis. I would win a hand and it would be just a random hand, and the person would look at me and say, "You fucking cunt." I'm not kidding. That happened to me pretty much every day, which is an interesting reaction to losing a hand of poker. What you would consider sexual harassment or things that wouldn't be okay in every day interaction become fair game in a lot of player's minds at the poker table. Some how they feel like because you have agreed to sit down at the table that they are allowed to treat you however they want because it was your choice to sit down in their world. They seemed to think that it was okay to be using those words in relation to me.
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what kind of names do the men call each other?
Wow the video was deep! There were so many metaphors for life there. She's amazing. And it goes to show how you have to be twice as good and have twice the confidence to be in her circle. What a trailblazer. Props to her and all women with her grit and savvy.
And I love how she uses chauvinists' irrationality to her advantage. Sweet.