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Thanks. I guess I wasn't clear enough, but when I wrote "And then consider a couple of places where the character's gender might affect things, and add it in", I meant that one should pick the gender at that point, not at the beginning. Agreed.

That's a good example of well-done gender characterization. The Firefly series and the movie Serenity both feature well-done female characters who, I think, provide another example of the positive influence of adequate representation on characterization. Zoë, River, Kaylee, Inara - all of them...

:D Good question. It's something I've considered earlier, but I figured I'd consider it for a bit so I didn't respond immediately when I saw your post yesterday (yesterday in India, that is). Really? I thought it was utterly, purely coincidental. Really ;) My thought on it is that writing...

My response exactly. I seriously don't get what he's trying to say most of the time, and I doubt it's because my reading comprehension skills have atrophied. So, as I said before, I'm just ignoring Ariosto's posts from now on. I may read them, but I'll have to do so quickly and avoid replying...

As I mentioned before, I don't get what you're trying to say. And I don't mean your attitude or anything else, but simply your language. I recognize the words, but the combinations don't make sense to me. Damn you for giving me flashbacks to the freshman composition papers I've graded :p In...

Nah, that's just a flippant response to what I thought was a meaningless metaphor. Just because someone doesn't think your phrasing is effective doesn't mean they are determinedly ignorant. Though I'm sure thinking so helps :p Damn. That's why I have a hard time responding to a post of yours...

Nice one. It's always fun, for me, to take pre-existing presumptions that a lot of humans (esp. players at the table) share and tweak them somewhat in the fantasy world. So is the individual species of primates. Who cares? I'm a lot more interested in what benefits a single human being...

And in the interests of keeping this focused on gaming, here's a question for everyone. Since the core D&D world includes a whole lot of intelligent races with huge (mechanical and flavor) variations, I'm interested to see what sort of gender norms people can come up with that might be plausible...

Does it matter if people are discussing something in a thread which you aren't being forced to read or comment on? To clarify, I don't argue that biology doesn't influence human thought. I'm simply arguing that the degree of its influence is highly debatable, and also that people can...

Ah, crap! Thanks for the catch. I did mean "evolutionary psychology" every time. I'll edit my post. And no, I don't consider evolutionary psychology a subset of the former. What he said. When I have more time, I'll post something focusing back on gaming - which we have taken another of our...

I did, actually, and that's something which we tied into our discussion of language and its effect on thought and ideas. I agree about the wink and the nudge, but not about the biology. There's no rational reason why human biology should make promiscuity more acceptable in men than women...

On the tangent about language and insults, here's a small exercise I've used in my classes when talking about how language not only expresses but affects the way people think. I get my students to come up with nouns for a woman who has sex with a lot of people. They usually come up with a...

That's basically my take on it. If someone can't make creative stories without being sexist, in my book they aren't particularly creative. Interesting. Where do you live? Nice example. And yes, watching and thinking about one's use of language is an important element, so thanks for the...

Thanks. And yes, we're getting close. The events of this update were in the 87th session of the campaign and things went to hell in a handbasket (again!) in the 89th.

Yes, he's back up there again now, though he may not have been so at this particular point. Some of the others were also fairly generous about giving him big chunks out of their own shares of loot to buy him stuff. Not that it totally mollified him, of course :) Hah! I just got back from Delhi...

Possibly, but it's hard to say without more context. For example, if all NPCs of note being male is common to the campaign world, then presumably that world (and/or the segment of it the PCs are involved with) is a patriarchal and sexist one. Conversely, if there's no in-game justification for...

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Note to self: Make sure PCs interact with more dwarven women soon. On this note, something I've been thinking about a lot recently is the way that sexism in the US works. The fact that there is a (in my opinion, thin) veneer of gender equality makes it easy for people here to say that there is...

Looks like it. And this is why I don't trust ENWorld for rating fantasy movies, since I have a suspicion that many people here set the bar lower for them. I saw Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince and thought it was quite weak, with not much of a functional plot and serving more as a filler...

After having disposed of the unfortunate yuan-ti, the Guardian Angels and Prine go on to explore the rooms on either side of the hall. One of the rooms is clearly living quarters, like the one they had seen before but with more sleeping spaces, evidently differentiated between the snake-headed...