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There seems to be an assumption that character flaws are a requisite to make a character interesting. I don't know what signature flaws I would ascribe to Doc Savage, Captain Kirk, Steve Rogers, or No. 6 from "The Prisoner", to name a few off the top of my head, but whatever. There's a more...

By "our definition of gorgeous", they don't mean definition in the literal sense. I think their position Fablestreams is falling back on is that beauty is in the eye in of the beholder.

Well, I'm happy that at least somebody replied to that post and shared their thoughts. The Tomb Raider trailer has drawn flack for showing Lara as being disempowered. It's a kind of catch-22: if you use a female character as something kind of untouchable badass, then some people will say she's...

Let me see if I can show a couple of trailers from two different upcoming video games. They have been decried using words like "sexist", "misogynistic", and "disempowering". I'm interested to hear if people here draw parallels and/or distinctions between them: The first is from the upcoming...

When discussing fantasy material, at some point there's an inclination to say something like "the important thing is to separate fantasy from reality". But people come to role-play specifically to escape from reality and blur that distinction. Certain types of behavior are okay because they're...

Well, all feedback should be considered. However, I don't like what happens with things like the new Tomb Raider game. It shows how people can overreact and cry "sexism" and "misogyny" when they really don't have more than snatches of detail to work from.

No no, that's a very valid distinction there. Good point. Note that, however, while the means of inflicting violence may be implausible in the real world, violence is hardly alien to modern life, and it can become a fetish in its own right. Indeed, I think the fundamental reason all these...

As Morrus said, we started out talking about a product, and then we started incorporating a discussion of table behavior. The topics are related, but I hope it's understood that having an open mind towards a product is not a defense of scumbag behavior at the table. It certainly isn't a...

Do you really think I'm trying to abort discussion? But what if everybody isn't calling you an ass? What if there are a range of opinions, even after you filter out the obligatory agitators and dimbulbs? Maybe at the end of the day, you gotta accept that even some reasonable people are gonna...

That's more-or-less my point, Morrus. You can't just address sexism by not being sexist unless there's some arbiter whose authority is universally-accepted. There wasn't a series of bullet points for the Genesys guys to consult. Just that deceptive thing called "common sense". Common sense is...

To whom do I ask these questions? If I ask myself, the answer is just a reflection of my own disposition, not the originator's intents. Personally, I don't see a lot of cheesecake fetish women these days. What I see are characters that are drawn to look cool, depicted to look like badasses, and...

I notice that you and others were quick to respond that no female gamer you've ever met has had any problem whatsoever with violence, and I get the impression that didn't even strike any of you as a disparity. You ask if I would find slavery or racism deserving of the benefit of the doubt. Well...

"The default setting"? Do you really that in the here-and-now, it's the default setting in RPG's? I was just going through my D&D minis the other day, and noticing how pretty much all the female characters were well-atired. And there's a lot of'em too. I guess that's one reason to wish I had...

I've seen tons of characters fighting in outlandish outfits with impossible weapons. Outlandishness and impossibility were probably what they were going for. Something, y'know...fantastic? But on the whole, it sounds like you were able to find products that fell within your tolerance levels...

I don't know why you're going after the person whose had the least adversarial attitude towards this product in the last few pages, but the response is simple: when people have new information, they are free to revise their estimation. That's rather implicit. However, you don't need to see a...

I would say that there are all kinds of unfair biases towards physical appearance. A man who is short and/or bald is typically not gonna be the leading man in a film, but rather a buffoon or a jerk. He's also going to hear what a great friend he is by the ladies a lot more often. And being...

Certainly. A diverse array of perspectives is desirable.

You don't have to vindicate your feelings. But if you say that cheesecake is the smoking gun for why the throngs of potential female gamers won't join the hobby--well, I just don't weigh the handful of respondents here as being a bombshell case-closer. People are inclined to post about something...

In the above paragraph, I think you are mischaracterizing many peoples' point-of-view. Being so reductive of others' positions is invariably going to lead you to react to them negatively. The question is, are you giving the opposing the benefit of the doubt? Or are you inclined to simply write...

That most women are not into violent pursuits is not mythical. It is quite self-evident through the examples I provided above.