This reminded me of a story I heard in League about an all female team.
Looking it up now I can’t (easily) find the negative comments I remember seeing, but I remember there being this whole thing about this all female league team that sucked and that got crushed. It was shared as an example of women not being able to complete.
I recently came to learn that the story being shared around at the time (which was years ago at this point, this reddit post is form 6 years ago https://www.reddit.com/r/leagueoflegends/comments/f5sci6/averaging_27_deaths_a_game_the_all_female_team/) wasn’t complete. Or at least not complete by the people peddling the story.
The girls sucked because they just sucked in comparison to the players they played against. They were literally way way worse ranking then them.
Do you mind if I ask why you think the team was underperforming?
Huh, we are just diamond players, when other players were like challenger and above. And it’s not about being male or female. You can take five boys from diamond and they will have the same performance, plus, some girls were auto-filled.
That didn’t get shared around to me when I heard this story. I think part of this could have been addressed by me at the time (I definitely did have opinions along the lines of thinking women are intellectually inferior, since I heard that a lot), since commenters on that reddit post pointed out that they were just diamond players (btw league ranks go diamond, master, grandmaster, challenger and I remember someone mentioning that the elo gap between master and challenger is double).