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Agreed, and we risk running into even worse discrimination by NOT being allowed to show women in a fight for their lives. In which they are going to take some hits. Because, fight. Can not fight without hitting and getting hit. Not a difficult equation to parse. Absolutely I get that...

No moral issues. Minor language issue, unless all your female friends are younger than you and under 18. A subtle issue, not so much right or wrong, as something to think about. Do you believe that females are so different from males based on their gender alone that you would find...

How do you have a female protagonist in a gritty survival story who doesn't take any hits or hard knocks? You can't. If you want to tell that genre of story, your protagonist takes knocks. Doesn't matter if the protagonist is male, female, animal or alien. That could be Lassie getting torn...

The promotional materials put out for Free RPG Day are fringe elements in an echo chamber? Mentioning an iconically explicit cover image as part of a larger discussion while stating that yes, I have indeed looked through the entire book is not exactly 'judging a book by its cover'. That...

So you are limiting the parameters to females under 18? If you really mean women, you might actually want to say so. Or if you're open to both girls and women, you can say that. But "girls" is not a great designation to use for adult women, though some will be more okay with that term than...

Nope. I don't see any reason to share my personal information nor my real name on this thread, and lots of reasons not to. Morrus has the information in PM, and he knows the name on my PayPal account. No one else needs to. I am not interested in your offer to "discuss" anything I've written...

I have no beef with anything in that clip. The female character is in her underwear, but then she starts out hanging upside down in some kind of cocoon, so there's a reason. It's not particularly sexy underwear, either. She is in trouble and the clip shows it, but that is also part of the...

We're different people, and of course going to have different personal experiences and perspectives. That's not solely a function of gender, though of course that's an influence. I'm glad that your experiences and presumably those of the women you've gamed with have been good, though it might...

I did feel dismissed, specifically by what you said in response to my sharing my own experience and perspective. I respect your right to draw different conclusions, have different opinions, and to disagree. Whether it was your intent or not, and your later posts suggests that it probably was...

They might respond that way if I actually said that, yes. I don't personally think that even the more extreme examples of such art in mass market RPG's are the most explicit thing kids could be exposed to. It's not an issue I spend a lot of time worrying about, because I don't have kids and I...

I am getting really, really tired of your telling me that I am saying things or meaning things that just don't exist. Men and women matter, equally so. We're both human. What I am saying is that inequality is wrong, not that victimizing men is any less wrong than victimizing women. I don't...

Heck, using modern plumbing instead of wiping ourselves with dirt and leaves after doing our business in the woods makes us not 100% authentically medieval. But we don't claim to be. We prefer to take a pass on the not-fun stuff like cholera, and play by rules that are reasonably authentic but...

I don't think that porn of any flavor is intrinsically harmful at all. It's great, actually. You should enjoy as much of it as you want with other consenting adults. When you take porn outside the happy context of being sexual with other consenting adults, and you put it in places where it...

I would love to not go there. Ever. And I promise I'll try hard not to bring inappropriate references onto this forum. Thing is, how do you even talk about the stuff that makes women feel uncomfortable about the hobby and NOT mention stuff like "well, there's rape imagery in this roleplaying...

Sure. The 'unwelcome' factor goes up a lot when you're being depicted *as* the product, though. If I was expressing it in a manner that could possibly be construed that way, yes, it certainly could. Given that I am personally very vocal about being pro porn, pro sex industry, and pro...

I don't think you're reading the same things that I'm writing. Nothing I have any interest in discussing here. Given that you took a handful of random fantasy books I'd read and turned that list into an attack against me for my imagined political viewpoint, my level of WTF with this...

Depends on the context. When all the women are wearing bikinis and all the men are in armor, it sends a message. Like, that women are supposed to prioritize looking hot for the guys over minor little details like not getting killed. Also depends on whether she's showing as much comparative...

Did I not just say that a large amount of new RPG material is always in the house, and that yes, I do look at it? Fairly often I don't have to look very far before being discouraged by what's inside. But I certainly do look. Entering the hobby? Dude. I wrote for Dragon magazine back in the...

Oops - accidental deletion by a mod who hit edit and not quote. Might as well delete it the rest of the way since what's left didn't make a ton of sense out of context. No biggie.

It's a subtle gestalt, though some of the pieces of the gestalt aren't subtle at all. It's the overall gaming environment, which definitely does include how female characters are portrayed in the art and the storyline of the campaign. The attitude at the gaming table of the individual players...