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No. Be careful with implying or assuming. It may earn points with some, but makes you appear like a zealot. The conventions are a trade convention. A vacation destination as well. If there are huge public outcries and bad media about harassment (whether this is ubiquitous or overblown -...

You are not required to trust any man's reputation. I would hope that applies to any random person, for that matter. It is the sign of rational thought. the ability to discern and question. Questions are the answer, not dogmatic blanket statements. However, going around thinking every dude is a...

Exactly my point. Yes, business cons still may have some harassment. But you do it there and get known, you get punished hardcore unless you are the president of the place, but wealth inequity is another tale for another time. I am not a sociologist, but I guarantee that whenever you get drunk...

It is still the guy's fault if he does something inappropriate. Remember the first 3 letters of "assume". It makes that out of "u" and "me". By removing that, you remove any even remote reason to view this person sexually. Most trade conventions do not let you go around scantily clad. Nor do...

That is the reason you change the environment. It is much simpler than You get rid of the room parties, the booze, and have a sensible dress code you eliminate the environment which breeds the behavior you do not want. If someone actually DOES do something, you intervene like you would anyone...

If you want to use degrading words, there are far better words that have no ambiguity whatsoever to them. The meanings of those words are well known. Just "ladies" is fine until someone changes the dictionary. I mean, we would not want half the population offended by restroom signs? No...

I do not think they have changed the definition of that word YET. Though words are always changing. It sounds better than some other words. People are funny though. What one person views as no big deal, the other views as a 40 dice meteor swarm towards their everything. I say any person that...

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It's not. If she avoids the drunk room parties too late and sticks to gaming, she would be okay except in rare circumstances. Like showing up to some company room party with what the article is about. But, see #1. Most of the FUD is from four sources: - real tales of jerk horny drunk dudes...

It is not favoritism if you let the part themselves decide by a vote, not yourself. Be careful with this if you give out too many rewards. You can easily end up in situations where the party levels up faster than you would like.

No, but I could give you a picture of my dog, Delphine AKA Dellie. She definitely feels oppressed by the "patriarchy" when she does not get human food. She feels this is species-ist and definitely does not understand cis-species people as she identifies as human. How dare they classify her...

Actually a lot of the wargamer conventions are like that. You do not have cosplayers with their boobs hanging out. There is no santioned party scene unless one or two want to hang at a bar after. Most people are married and older, so they are over needing to find a mate who is also a gamer. They...

Problem was, the Earth/Fire/Water quest series had horrible game play even to Atari 2600 standards. It involved: - going from room to room with no game play in them. - completing horrible mini games with horrible graphics (even for the 2600) dodging strange lines and sub 8 bit pixel puke with...

There are types of conventions where you have little, if any harassment. Not sure it would be a lot of people's cup of tea. They make a distinction between the professionals and the amateurs. They also have just basic blanket rules of conduct like the pic of the GenCon deal in the article...

I suppose you are right. Good point. And no, lack of fighting back IS NOT consent. Never implied that. My SO grew up in New Orleans near the bars of French Quarter circa 1990s. She is a very blunt, tom-boyish no nonsense lady. But, I would not want to be bailing her out of jail in some far...

No victim blaming intended. My SO said he would be relieved of testicles if he did it to her. Of course, she is a creature of New Orleans. You do not make those ladies mad :D I laughed hysterically.

I was talking to my SO about this last night and she brought up an excellent point that has not been brought up in the entire threadnaught. If Fannon truly did this in a public place, how come she did not just punch the hell out of him? My SO said that is what she would do when we reread the...

It is amazing what model looking, witty voice actors using your product will get you. Even if the reality of most games is far from that. Well done to WotC recovering from the well intentioned, but ultimately not good outcome of 4e. DnD LIVES!!!

All these are great. This Fannon guy did do some creepy stuff. Only thing I disagree with is some of the Green Ronnin stuff and the TL;DR of the feminist wiki stuff. As far as the Green Ronin example, it would be really nice if someone was going to get you banned, you should at least know...

A lot of the actual trolls are just single guys that are afraid they will get messed over in a witch hunt if they hit on someone and that someone rebuffs. It is okay to be afraid the atmosphere my change to where meeting up with that geeky girl may not be possible. It is okay not to want to have...