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<blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 8369066" data-attributes="member: 177">If one player does this for a character at their own table, no.If a widely distributed work, for decades supports the idea that, &quot;People like this are strong,&quot; and, &quot;people like this are stupid,&quot; and, &quot;people like this are ugly,&quot; and so on, we start to have difficulties.&nbsp; No particular individual DM is a cause for concern.&nbsp; When thousands of GMs are doing it, it becomes a problem for many reasons.&nbsp; For one...It may be difficult to see, if you are in a demographic that's been more on the giving end than the receiving end of such stuff.&nbsp; But the minorities among us have been subject to, &quot;people like that are...&quot; for a long, long time.&nbsp; So, repeating that pattern looks like symbolically repeating the thing done to them, and enjoying it.Now, one might want to argue that this is only gaming, even the biggest game doesn't really impact culture as a whole.&nbsp; To which I point out that almost every subset of culture can say that.&nbsp; And if they all do, then the entire culture fails to change.&nbsp; Plus, with the explosive growth of the game, the higher public visibility with actual play shows, and a major motion picture coming, the placement of gaming in culture seems on the rise.We are each responsible for making the world a better place within our reach.&nbsp; This is a small thing, within our reach.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Umbran, post: 8369066, member: 177"] If one player does this for a character at their own table, no. If a widely distributed work, for decades supports the idea that, "People like this are strong," and, "people like this are stupid," and, "people like this are ugly," and so on, we start to have difficulties. No particular individual DM is a cause for concern. When thousands of GMs are doing it, it becomes a problem for many reasons. For one... It may be difficult to see, if you are in a demographic that's been more on the giving end than the receiving end of such stuff. But the minorities among us have been subject to, "people like that are..." for a long, long time. So, repeating that pattern looks like symbolically repeating the thing done to them, [I]and enjoying it[/I]. Now, one might want to argue that this is only gaming, even the biggest game doesn't really impact culture as a whole. To which I point out that almost every [I]subset[/I] of culture can say that. And if they all do, then the [I]entire culture[/I] fails to change. Plus, with the explosive growth of the game, the higher public visibility with actual play shows, and a major motion picture coming, the placement of gaming in culture seems on the rise. We are each responsible for making the world a better place within our reach. This is a small thing, within our reach. [/QUOTE]

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