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<blockquote data-quote="TanithT" data-source="post: 5948200" data-attributes="member: 87695"><p>Depends on the group you're targeting. I don't think that telling stories about elf on Orc violence is likely to push many people's hot buttons, but how about a historically accurate Huckleberry Finn/Tom Sawyer based RPG where one of the fun adventures your PC's could participate in was hunting down, whipping and collecting bounty on escaped Negro slaves?</p><p></p><p>Somehow I get the feeling that you'd run into a shortage of African-American players who wanted to game with you. Because they're going to feel personally targeted by the depiction of their representational characters in the game, even though it's historically accurate. Actually, <em>because</em> it's historically accurate. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I don't think anyone has yet claimed that the entire hobby *is* sexist. It's not. But I am telling the absolute truth when I say that if I pick up a random handful of RPG source material or sit down at a random open gaming table at a convention, in my experience, my chances of running into some pretty demoralizing stuff are high enough to make me uncomfortable.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>In what sense? Is it fair that it only takes one or two creepy, disrespectful guys at a gaming table to make a female gamer leave? Is it 'representational' if it's only one out of the six other guys at the table who won't quit asking how big her character's boobs are and if he can roll to have sex with her? By the numbers it's not, but she's leaving anyway, and she might not want to come back.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>The question you have to ask is why they're dressed that way, how many of them are dressed that way, and how the men next to them are dressed, and what message overall that's likely to send to a woman at your gaming table.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Sexism and sexual dimorphism are entirely different issues. You address sexism by <em>not being sexist</em>. What that means to you individually is going to vary, but I don't think it has to mean ignoring or downplaying the physical differences between the sexes.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TanithT, post: 5948200, member: 87695"] Depends on the group you're targeting. I don't think that telling stories about elf on Orc violence is likely to push many people's hot buttons, but how about a historically accurate Huckleberry Finn/Tom Sawyer based RPG where one of the fun adventures your PC's could participate in was hunting down, whipping and collecting bounty on escaped Negro slaves? Somehow I get the feeling that you'd run into a shortage of African-American players who wanted to game with you. Because they're going to feel personally targeted by the depiction of their representational characters in the game, even though it's historically accurate. Actually, [I]because[/I] it's historically accurate. I don't think anyone has yet claimed that the entire hobby *is* sexist. It's not. But I am telling the absolute truth when I say that if I pick up a random handful of RPG source material or sit down at a random open gaming table at a convention, in my experience, my chances of running into some pretty demoralizing stuff are high enough to make me uncomfortable. In what sense? Is it fair that it only takes one or two creepy, disrespectful guys at a gaming table to make a female gamer leave? Is it 'representational' if it's only one out of the six other guys at the table who won't quit asking how big her character's boobs are and if he can roll to have sex with her? By the numbers it's not, but she's leaving anyway, and she might not want to come back. The question you have to ask is why they're dressed that way, how many of them are dressed that way, and how the men next to them are dressed, and what message overall that's likely to send to a woman at your gaming table. Sexism and sexual dimorphism are entirely different issues. You address sexism by [I]not being sexist[/I]. What that means to you individually is going to vary, but I don't think it has to mean ignoring or downplaying the physical differences between the sexes. [/QUOTE]
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