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<blockquote data-quote="77IM" data-source="post: 7407647" data-attributes="member: 12377"><p>Your use of the term "worse" seems to imply some moral ranking, which wasn't where I was going, and which has little bearing on role-playing games, which are often escapist fantasies with very loose and questionable depictions of morality.</p><p></p><p>But, for a lot of people, rape is worse than murder <u>to depict in a game</u>, because rape is a very present danger and murder is very remote.</p><p></p><p>One of the most useful tools for understanding gender issues is to imagine a comparable racial issue. Would you support a PC class that held slaves? Since PCs murder all the time, and murder is clearly bad, what would be the problem with a slavemaster PC?</p><p></p><p>If these are things you want to explore in your games -- great! I'm actually going to run a game in about a half an hour where one of the PCs is a slave. For that group, it's interesting, not triggering. And I've played in games with strong sexual themes, and no-one ever brought up rape. It's fine.</p><p></p><p>I just don't think you should be critical of people for not wanting to explore sexual issues, simply because other people and cultures are less sensitive. Instead, I think it's important in a game with broad appeal like D&D to be extra sensitive to things that make people uncomfortable. Because those people might have very good reasons for being uncomfortable about it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="77IM, post: 7407647, member: 12377"] Your use of the term "worse" seems to imply some moral ranking, which wasn't where I was going, and which has little bearing on role-playing games, which are often escapist fantasies with very loose and questionable depictions of morality. But, for a lot of people, rape is worse than murder [U]to depict in a game[/U], because rape is a very present danger and murder is very remote. One of the most useful tools for understanding gender issues is to imagine a comparable racial issue. Would you support a PC class that held slaves? Since PCs murder all the time, and murder is clearly bad, what would be the problem with a slavemaster PC? If these are things you want to explore in your games -- great! I'm actually going to run a game in about a half an hour where one of the PCs is a slave. For that group, it's interesting, not triggering. And I've played in games with strong sexual themes, and no-one ever brought up rape. It's fine. I just don't think you should be critical of people for not wanting to explore sexual issues, simply because other people and cultures are less sensitive. Instead, I think it's important in a game with broad appeal like D&D to be extra sensitive to things that make people uncomfortable. Because those people might have very good reasons for being uncomfortable about it. [/QUOTE]
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