We greatly appreciate the care and thought that is evident in the 10 commentaries that discuss our debate paper, the majority of which argued in favor of a formalized ICD-11 gaming disorder. We agree that there are some people whose play of video games is related to life problems. We believe that understanding this population and the nature and severity of the problems they experience should be a focus area for future research. However, moving from research construct to formal disorder requires a much stronger evidence base than we currently have. The burden of evidence and the clinical utility should be extremely high, because there is a genuine risk of abuse of diagnoses. We provide suggestions about the level of evidence that might be required: transparent and preregistered studies, a better demarcation of the subject area that includes a rationale for focusing on gaming particularly versus a more general behavioral addictions concept, the exploration of non-addiction approaches, and the unbiased exploration of clinical approaches that treat potentially underlying issues, such as depressive mood or social anxiety first. We acknowledge there could be benefits to formalizing gaming disorder, many of which were highlighted by colleagues in their commentaries, but we think they do not yet outweigh the wider societal and public health risks involved. Given the gravity of diagnostic classification and its wider societal impact, we urge our colleagues at the WHO to err on the side of caution for now and postpone the formalization.

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Et bidrag til en mangelfuld litteratur om kvinder og fodbold, fordomme og maskulinitet.Life is too short for women’s football – on women’s football, homophobia and (re)presentations of homophobia in the Danish pressInternational success has not been the hallmark of Danish women’s soccer since the early 1970s, when the national team won the unofficial World Cup in Mexico and caught the interest of Danish news media and the Danish public in general. Since then only scarce media attention has been paid to Danish women’s soccer. With a specific aim of exploring the current interest of Danish media in women’s soccer – its character and images – this article examines the (re)presentations of women’s soccer in selected Danish newspapers in the period from 1995 through 2001. The theoretical point of departure is taken in the concept of homophobia, and includes a discussion of how homophobian attitudes may shape women’s engagement in sports. Against this backdrop, five homophobian themes emerge from the analysis of Danish newspaper (re)presentations on women’s soccer, each of them pointing to a sport in which women are now being accepted but yet not respected.

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