Hussar
Legend
Dunno. Sound pretty darn plausible to me.
But, I'm wondering. Why would you think that this is not an issue that should be discussed on a gaming forum? The behaviour of gamers is something that's been discussed at length. Whether it's "that disruptive guy at my table" or lengthy Agony Aunt style threads talking about how the group imploded under the weight of some incredibly asinine behaviour. Why shouldn't this issue be raised?
I'll admit, I don't think I've seen this. But, then, I almost never played at public forums and I've spent the last 15 years pretty much exclusively gaming online via VTT. But, even then, I've seen some pretty uncomfortable behaviour. Heck, I remember being cyber stalked by a former player who I had to give the boot to. He harassed me for months, all via private mail on the forum we were using and through the creation of alt accounts to threadcrap our game threads. So, I can certainly see this sort of thing happening.
Heck, I used to be a regular on an old forum called PlanetADnD. Great forum for a while until one of the mods decided he had a serious hate on for me and endlessly harassed me until I left the forum. And I was hardly the first user to get treated like that. Was the main reason I can to En World because the mods here are pretty even handed.
So the idea that these same sorts of people might harass women in the hobby isn't much of a stretch.
But, I'm wondering. Why would you think that this is not an issue that should be discussed on a gaming forum? The behaviour of gamers is something that's been discussed at length. Whether it's "that disruptive guy at my table" or lengthy Agony Aunt style threads talking about how the group imploded under the weight of some incredibly asinine behaviour. Why shouldn't this issue be raised?
I'll admit, I don't think I've seen this. But, then, I almost never played at public forums and I've spent the last 15 years pretty much exclusively gaming online via VTT. But, even then, I've seen some pretty uncomfortable behaviour. Heck, I remember being cyber stalked by a former player who I had to give the boot to. He harassed me for months, all via private mail on the forum we were using and through the creation of alt accounts to threadcrap our game threads. So, I can certainly see this sort of thing happening.
Heck, I used to be a regular on an old forum called PlanetADnD. Great forum for a while until one of the mods decided he had a serious hate on for me and endlessly harassed me until I left the forum. And I was hardly the first user to get treated like that. Was the main reason I can to En World because the mods here are pretty even handed.
So the idea that these same sorts of people might harass women in the hobby isn't much of a stretch.