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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Larry Fitz" data-source="post: 1021695" data-attributes="member: 3949">Yes I looked at the gallery and no I was not really offended by the material within. However I do not believe this is an appropriate forum for such content. Here there are certain guidelines of civility and decorum, not to marginalize anyone but to be inclusive. If I had a daughter I'd want her to be able to come to this forum and not feel as if only "beautiful" women who displayed themselves for ogling were worthy of attention. Some of the spokesmodels at GenCon last year were actually indoctrinated. The previous year one of the women involved with Dionin (I think it was Dionin) dressed up as a member of a feline race from their book. This involved a lot of orange and black body paint and very little costume. The point is she knew the products well and could talk about them. The better spokesmodels do know what they are selling and are part of the process. When we get to the point where we are posting pictures of people who are possibly not even part of the event then what we are really doing is using this forum to post "Women I find attractive that were near someplace I went." That's fine for your own site, but of what relevance is it to this community? I like beautiful women, I like well made and interesting costuming and make-up. I also like having a forum where intelligent and mature discourse occurs on a wide variety of topics of specific interest to the gaming community. I don't necessarily need all three in the same place. I guess what I'm saying is, I like Martin Sheen, but that's because he's a good actor, I don't want to hear his political views and I certainly won't be influenced by them. If I want to look at pretty women, I'll do that somewhere appropriate, if I want to engage intelligent and interesting people in dialogue concerning gaming, I'll come to you nice folks. Larry FitzPS We're in booth #434, I'll be the pirate in the chainmail thong with a vinyl eyepatch...</blockquote>

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