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Can't see the last page of posts for some reason... That wasn't my only comment in the thread -- remember earlier I said your idea of a zero discretion harassment policy was dumb and you appear to have a superiority complex over other gamers. I'm not dismissive of the harassment of gamers who...

Oh jeez. Is this an after school special? Here I'll try. Harassment is totally not cool man! How many gropings did I prevent? If you have no idea what to do and you're just writing to raise awareness, just say that.

Those both look terrible. I think you're trolling me! I was being a bit arch in saying that, but I think there's a kernel of truth there. When films receive feminist criticism sometimes the writer or director will say something to the effect of "K it's just a movie get a life" but I've never...

Have they? Literally they will throw anyone out no questions asked if they're accused of harassment? If so, why was this presented as an innovative idea?

Emily Garland (author of the blog post in OP) admits to at least embellishing some of the stories in her article here:

My point upthread was that the moral obligation we have to fight against the harassment of women dwarfs that of making games more appealing to women, and one can support the first fight while actually having little interest in the latter. I think there's nothing wrong with making a game...

I am listening. So far in this thread we have Elf Witch's experience of being groped by a Hugo-award winning writer in the late 1970s, and MechaPilot's experience of rape by PC proxy in the early 1990s. Did I miss anything? I went to Comic Con a few months ago with a friend of mine (granted...

Content that glorifies masculinity and/or tends to appeal to men more than women and the genderqueer, esp. content that the latter find unappealing or even repulsive. In a tabletop gaming context an obvious example would be pinup art, e.g. chainmail bikinis. More subtly, a game that assumes the...

This is a terrible idea -- what happens when smelly neckbeard man accuses cute cosplay girl of harassment, because she rolled her eyes at him or beat him in a wargame? She should be thrown out immediately? If you spent less mental energy on indulging your superiority complex over other gamers...

I've been looking into this as well. Both of those claims look fair to me. A) It seems for many the trans character is not the most irritating part, it's the fact that they changed a NPC companion's personality from one who flirts with men to manipulate them, to one who mocks and bullies men...

Just wondering if you meant to do that :hmm: I looked through all 11 pages of posts with the Malifaux tag and couldn't find any screencaps. The owner of Wyrd says that they've repeatedly asked for evidence that one of their employees threatened her, but have never received it. I think they...

There's an almost religious fervor in your posts that is creeping me out. "Listen...believe...have faith...submit...":angel: I find the exhortation to 'just believe' repellant, not just because the willful stupidity involved but because it infantilizes women to consider them incapable of lying...

I am running a hex crawl with 1 mile hexes. I roll for encounters every hour; some are monsters, some wilderness hazards and some "specials" (often a social encounter). 8 hours in the wild is a short rest, a long rest is only possible in certain locations on the map: towns, forts, religious...

:hmm:If you're going to jump into someone else's conversation, make sure you're following along. I haven't personally badgered the author to prove anything, first of all. I haven't said anything to her. I said upthread that if she has anything to prove, it's her claim that the threats she...

Where's the proof that she's received death/rape threats from Wyrd staff members? Out of curiosity, I noticed that you capitalized the word "women" multiple times in your post, but you didn't capitalize the word "men". Why did you do that?

This is absurd. There's nothing wrong with masculine gaming content ("toys for boys"). No correlation has been shown between it and real life misogyny and harassment. This is like saying racism will begin to change for real when white people stop using sunscreen and listening to country music.

Well, I don't infantilize women, so I imagine they could handle it? It's just my opinion after all. I think it's important to maintain perspective. I'm all for that! As long as "the problem" is operationalized and a solution-focused approach is taken. Posting a message of support or outrage in a...

That helps yes, thanks for the link. I admit that on my reading I didn't consider that the co-worker could be trying to make a friendly but ill-considered joke. That's more plausible. I read it like they were being aggressively abusive to someone they just met.

I said I don't think it needs to be discussed. OP said "I don't have a solution, but I think we have to talk about this". I was disagreeing with that. I don't think we have to talk about it. I think white male gamers are less intimidating to women and POC than typical western white men, and this...

I didn't call her a liar! I said I think the events in the ++++ sections are fictional. I don't know to what extent the author intended for people to realize this or not. I say this for three reasons: a) they're completely implausible b) they're inserted into the article without any preamble or...