amazon: Confessions of a Part-time Sorceress: A Hip Girl's Guide to the D&D Game

[Fishbone]

How the hell am I sexist?
I love Spinal Tap by the way. Must...resist urge...to make stumpy joe joke in this thread...ARGGGH!
You've got to be kidding me, here. The chainmail bikini is a WOTC staple, I frolick around in more clothing when I have a sunday morning off with the house to myself and my sports team winning its game than the average depiction of a woman in Dungeons and Dragons.
Witness the fanboy hard-ons that the drow love thread spawned, nearly on its 8th page in under a week.
The game is fundamentally sexualized.
Now if you'll excuse me, I have to see what twisted demoniacal rape-begotten half breed I can sic on my friends next.

 

[Jim Hague]

Sometimes it's tough to tell the difference . . .

Ha, true. But there's also mockingly funny...and not so much so, yes?

 

[Piratecat]

If I have to remind folks one more time to keep the thread on track, the thread's going to be a lot emptier. Enough with the hijack, please.

 

[Jim Hague]

*removed at PC's request*

 

[AdmundfortGeographer]

The chainmail bikini is a WOTC staple, I frolick around in more clothing when I have a sunday morning off with the house to myself and my sports team winning its game than the average depiction of a woman in Dungeons and Dragons.

Revealing attire has also been adopted by certain women as an empowering thing, reclaiming so-to-speak. See an infinite variety of contemporary pop culture examples from bare mid-riffs to Halloween costumes for adults.

 

[Mark CMG]

If I have to remind folks one more time to keep the thread on track, the thread's going to be a lot emptier. Enough with the hijack, please.

Well, now, you have me wondering. What subject matter are you moderating in this thread. I'm now thoroughly confused and certainly do not wish to be posting in the wrong.

 

[Nightfall]

I think confusion in posting on EN world is pretty common.

I will say meh to gender bias/discrimination. If only because it's silly to have it when we got more to worry about in life.

Especially over a book that probably isn't that good. I base that on the TOPIC, not the writer.

 

[JustKim]

I'm imagining a Chicken Soup for the Soul sort of anecdotal book with a nod to teen magazines.

 

[VirgilCaine]

I think sorceress sounds kind of cool and its helpful because a lot of magic casters seem to have androgynous sounding names and tendencies, like V.

I don't believe V ever used any magic in the graphic novels or the movie.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

I'm imagining a Chicken Soup for the Soul sort of anecdotal book with a nod to teen magazines.

Uplifting short stories about getting through the hard times in life? I don't get that at all from the title.

That said, I'm surprised there's not a Chicken Soup for the Gamer's Soul yet; everything else has pretty much been done at this point.