A Professional Gamer Got Fired From Her Job For Saying Men Under 5'7" Don't Have Human Rights

Source - Japanese Tekken star Kana ‘Tanukana’ Tani has risen in the fighting game scene, notably placing first in the WESG 2019 Chongqing Tekken 7 Invitational.

However, her place as one of Tekken’s prominent female fighting game forces as a member of Cyclops Athlete Gaming will no longer be continuing after controversy erupted over her on-stream remarks.

As reported by Kotaku, during a February 15 broadcast, Tanukana said: “Men who are under 5 ft 7 don’t have human rights.” She further added that they should consider getting surgery to deal with their shortcomings.

Interestingly, the Japanese word for human rights is ‘jinken,’ but in regards to video games, the term means an item or character that players need to have. This has resulted in a bit of debate over her true intentions.

Good for you, Kana. Speak your truth girl. Sing that hatred from the top of every mountain and don't you dare let the man silence you. You just gotta be careful with who you say you hate because if you piss off the wrong group you'll have hell to pay. To be honest, I didn't know the shorts had this kind of power. Canceling people for what they say is usually reserved for races or religions - not the ever elusive sub-five-foot-seven man. Chances are the person who fired her is in that group, right? No one hates a short joke like a short guy. Regardless, her previous employer released the following statement... 

In a statement, the org apologized for their star’s comments: “We here at Cyclops Athlete Gaming apologize deeply for the inappropriate statements from our sponsored player Tanukana and the pain her words have caused people, as well as all the distress and trouble caused to the fans who support our team and the sponsors involved.”

“Miss Tanukana’s inappropriate statements in her live stream on February 15th of 2022 were not approved by us and have led to us terminating her contract,” they added.

Scumbags. What ever happened to sticking up for your employees? Kana also went on twitter and apologized saying, "there is no excuse for disappointing you in this matter” which is equally as weird. Oh well. I'm sure she'll be able to bounce back, she crushes on YouTube. Most of her streams do hundreds of thousands of views. Here's one of them if you're interested in checking it out...

Keep your head up, Kana. People have survived worse, you just have to wait for it to blow over. Thoughts and prayers until it does.