Love Island star Jessica Losurdo has opened up about the sexism she’s experienced in regard to her hobby of online gaming.
Jessica works as a risk analyst by day, but loves gaming as a hobby and told Refinery29 that any love interest she meets must be ok with her spending time online.
“I feel that gaming is heavily male-dominated. There are not a lot of girls that do gaming,” Jessica told the publication.
“I play online games, and I feel like when you go online, you’re in the lobby [of the game] and you put your headset on, and then when you start speaking and people hear that you’re a woman, you get attacked,” she explained.
Jessica shared some examples of how men talk to her in the audio chat while gaming and showed the sexism that’s rife in the online community.
“It’s like ‘Get in the kitchen and make sandwiches’ and those sorts of jokes. I feel like you get punished if you like games as a woman. You’re not really taken seriously.”
She added, “I just feel that the girls who do play games, speak up. If you go into the chatroom and you hear a guy making all these derogatory comments, call it out because it’s definitely not right.”
Jessica is one of thirteen singles in the Spanish Love Island villa that are looking for love and blue ticks on their Instagram.
Currently, everyone is coupled up in the villa except for two men and one woman. Despite the fact that none of the current couples on Love Island Australia may be together at the end of the season, punters have already started placing money on them to win.
According to Now To Love, there are two couples that are most likely to win – if betting odds are anything to go by. They’ve reported that Austen Bugeja and Layla John have the highest odds to win, with a return of $2.75, which means if someone bets $1.00 on them, they will take home $2.75, or if they bet $10 on the, they will take home 27.50 etc.
Mitchell Eliot and Phoebe Spiller have come in at second place for most likely to win, with a return of $3.00. At the bottom of the ladder is Jessica Losurdo who has an $8.50 betting odd of winning and Callum Hole with odds at $10.00
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