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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nisarg" data-source="post: 1726295" data-attributes="member: 19893">I do.If for every cat-piss man we have we lose five socially adjusted people (three of them women), I do see how it would be healthier for the hobby to not have cat-piss men in it.And no, obviously we can't put bouncers at the entrances to conventions. But in our local gaming groups, clubs, FLGSs, etc., we can make a point of not just "tolerating" antisocial behaviour, and having the same standards in our gaming groups for hygene and behaviour that we would have in any other social environment.  The Geek social fallacy is what keeps too many gamers from doing that, so they tolerate the guy that smells terrible and obviously hasn't bathed, the 30 year old guy who hits on the 16 year old girl who is at a gaming table for the first time (or the 16 year old guy, for that matter), the guy who can't stop interrupting or shouting, or who won't stop talking period, or who jumps in with wildly inappropriate comments. Too many gamers tolerate these people because they think gaming has to be "inclusive".Inclusive doesn't mean I have to tolerate cat-piss man at my table. And if no one tolerated cat-piss man at their table, we would quickly be free of cat-piss men; they'd either leave for other fandoms that would be more "accepting" (read: enabling of their psycho-social disorders), or they would bathe and start acting their ages.Nisarg</blockquote>