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So having run a couple of Dread games with radically different themes - "The Solar Lodge", where the players were tormented artists going to a famous retreat-in-the-woods to get away from it all and work on their art in peace. Of course it turned out not to be quite the peaceful idyll that...

It's often used in the same way that children use "IT'S NOT FAIR!" when asked to let somebody else have a turn, or to pick up their toys. That is, they're being asked to change what they're doing and mildly inconvenience themselves in order to treat other people fairly, and they don't like it -...

Please note that I'm not commenting on what you "should" do in your campaign, I'm just addressing this particular sentiment. Other groups of humans compete for resources, territory, etc. - why wouldn't The People hate those-across-the-river and their strange, barbaric ways? Going back to the...

Abstruse, as you yourself said, when you mention "Dracula" to people they're more universally likely to flap an imaginary cape, not reference a recent Swedish horror movie. (Or, more likely, they'll think of Twilight, which is....not horror. Hemlock Grove is not exactly doing gangbusters on TV...

....ah, but that's the point. They weren't. (As my dad used to say, "Yeah, and if Grandma had a beard, she'd be Grandpa.") We're not in a parallel universe, we're in this one, where the evil elves are black-skinned and worship a demon goddess and are not only matriarchal, but oppressively and...

But isn't that the problem? These things are familiar. They're not scary. Hence the goofy cereals and the bad accent with the cape-flapping. Mummies are bad guys in lame adventure movies, etcetera. I'm not saying that Ravenloft is irrelevant or that the monsters you mention are irrelevant -...

Let's not forget the drow, an irredeemably evil, demon-worshipping culture where not only was everyone actually black-skinned, but their social and political structure was matriarchal (horrors!) D&D is rooted less in "medieval Europe" per se than in Tolkien, where all the orcs were in fact...

The Harry Potter movies, where the ghosts are a non-scary part of the home scenery for the Hogwarts students, and are not only used for things other than terrorizing/killing people, but range for the most part from "harmless" to "comic relief" to "plot McGuffin". Certainly ghosts haven't...

Not sure why, given that slasher and gore flicks were at their most popular well before 2000. Even the Saw films, at least the early ones, had a veneer of psychological horror, and I would guess that the young'uns are more likely to have watched The Blair Witch Project than Friday the 13th or...

In the US? No, it couldn't; that is not what 'hate crimes' or how 'hate crime' laws work. Even in countries that do restrict certain speech - for example, which make it a crime to deny the Holocaust - this wouldn't fall into that category. Goodness.

At the risk of sounding Super Unhelpful, I didn't have either as a specific 'model' in mind, both because sexism in tabletop gaming is broader than those two models and because specific subsets of sexism, e.g. "Fake Geek Girl" policing, include behavior not described in either model...

I realize you'd like this to be my position, and that having failed to establish that it's my position, you're just going to decide it is anyway; announcing "You just hate the penis!" is doubtless easier than defending some of the extremely silly arguments you've put forth in this thread - which...

Celebrim, if you genuinely believe this, you don't appear to think it's a model of behavior that is particularly useful to you. You admit you have strong feelings and express them, and think it's perfectly OK to do so without "an attitude of calm assurance" or with "asbestos underwear". Why do...

A difference in what? Look: I'm still waiting for you to explain the connection between Shades of Grey and an alleged instance of a female gamer objecting to certain party members going to a whorehouse. You keep doing this "Look! A monkey!" routine where you throw out sarcastic comments and...

Well, actually, yes. That is, while you certainly don't seem afraid to go into a towering, operating rage about matters on which you have strong feelings, over and over again you caution against behavior that is "rocking the boat" in real life. It might mess up the gaming group! We might have...

What do you mean, what would it "be"? What about having a male author or a male audience would make the books "be" something else? (I guess the author photo on the jacket would be different.) Your non sequitur aside, you still haven't explained your claim because Shades of Grey is a novel...

billd91 said it more concisely and wisely than I would have. Celebrim, the solution is to talk about the problem, and both as individuals and as a community, work to solve the problem. That is exactly what we're doing here. And as practical action, that means, as billd91 notes, that the...

Yup. That's the point of the "fake geek girl" nonsense - the assumption that women can't really be geeks and/or must have some ulterior motive for involving themselves in geekdom, such as undeservedly absorbing praise from lonely neckbeards. While I appreciate that you're trying to give folks...

But we haven't even gotten to the question of whether 'the dwarves and hobbits go to the whorehouse' is or is not sexist (and you seem to be assuming that I do, in fact, think it is, which I have not said). You argued that because Shades of Grey is a novel written by a woman and with a female...

The irony of "politically correct ideology" as a phrase is that it is, itself a politically-correct euphemism, and ultimately a self-serving one, meant to turn that frown upside down and turn what we might, less-euphemistically, characterize as anything ranging from unconscious short-sightedness...