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In my tabletop games, it's been pretty rare, but when it's done, it's worked well. In the online games I'm in (a lot), there's a lot of genderbending and it's generally done well there too. Better, I think, since the player isn't visually there to serve as a contrast to the PC anyway. BTW, I'm...

Fair enough. I'm not commenting on all of your post, but the thing I like about it is that you have a pretty well-reasoned argument for gender roles in the game as well as not seeming exclusionary towards one gender, and I like that. I might quibble about some things, such as the assumption...

No problem. Not expressing oneself as clearly as one would want is par for the course on the internet, I think, and with a subject as complex (and potentially inflammatory) as this one I figure we can all cut each other a little slack. Okay. I think the rest of my posts on the thread make it...

Nice! That's some of the best cover artwork I've seen in 4e thus far.

Ah, okay. I agree that it's impossible to stamp out these issues merely by altering the presentation/marketing of products. And I'm cynical enough to think that maybe we'll never completely stamp such issues out. But I think it's worthwhile to at least try to improve the situation, and in order...

I'm curious whether you think that my argumentation was poor or whether you think that our society (and again, I'll restrict myself to the USA) is not actually sexist. If the former, then my only excuse is that I was starting a thread to discuss something I find interesting and worth...

Agreed. And stupidly erotic, IMNSHO. And some male fans as well. Besides the fact that a number of non-heterosexuals play the game, a number of heterosexual men are capable of appreciating an attractive and well-drawn male nude just as a number of heterosexual women would appreciate an...

Hi, Mustrum. I was wondering when you would show up. Unfortunately, for some people (hopefully not the majority), I think the answers to those questions are "Because it's the status quo" and "Yes." Obviously, I don't buy t. The Archchancellor speaks truth. And the Archchancellor is a bad...

A FOLLOW-UP – SOLUTIONS: Since someone made a reasonable suggestion above that it would be helpful to suggest solutions to the sexism which I see as existing in D&D, I figured I should try to post something to that end. I thought about it for a bit and figured I would divide it into two parts...

Ooooh - BURN!!!!

Heh! I wasn't even bringing up the drow because they're such an easy target, not to mention one which has been beaten on often enough. I've heard all the explanations for it, but the fact that the most famous and visible matriarchy in D&D happens to be eeeevil is a little much of a coincidence...

Actually (and for many around me, sadly), yes. I always sucked when it came/comes to caring about issues of appearance :) I disagree with a lot of your assumptions. For one, I don't think the vast majority of campaign settings (published or otherwise) have any real integrity to them...

:D Don't forget the Quick Change ability to change costumes at the drop of a hat and the Teleport (Flaw: Only to scenic locations with music in background) power. My M&M group keeps joking that we'll run a Bollywood-themed campaign someday where every PC will have those abilities. Hah! Nice...

Ack! I was just telling Proserpine a little while ago that I thought you were being facetious in your comment :p Hey - I thought I said that what people think is human nature is mostly just human habit! Though probably not as melodiously as Jewel (who rocketh greatly, BTW). Agreed. I don't...

I'll assume you're being facetious here. And nobody, not even me, would suggest that a campaign should be all Luna all the time. That way lies madness. Proserpine's already commented on the above, so I'll just say that's precisely what my original post is about. I just think that can change...

Definitely, in my estimation. I'm not surprised. That's one of the issues I have with the "but women are doing it so it's not sexist" argument. People tend to reinforce the status quo in most fields, and if the status quo is sexist, whether you're male or female it's easy to end up being...

I don't think so, but then I don't think those power fantasies are intrinsically male. I think they're just power fantasies. I also think that there's a lot more to D&D than power fantasies. Without getting into edition wars, I disagree. I think 4e D&D is no more or less focused on the...

I personally wouldn't say that the patriarchy (aka traditional sexism) is much harsher to males who fail to conform, because the harshness does vary drastically from case to case, but I agree totally that the patriarchy hurts men a great deal too. While I agree with a lot of your other points...

Damn! In that case I'll switch to a question about something you mentioned a little earlier: You may have mentioned this earlier, in which case I missed it, but how often do you see stunt points being used per encounter? And do you think they're underused because it's just not beneficial...

Nice. If I'm going to see sexism, then I'm all for equal opportunity sexism. That's one of the weird things I've noticed with the campaign settings out there. They either shoot for some type of egalitarianism (and usually miss, other than Eberron) or have males as the gender in power. I never...