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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Neowolf" data-source="post: 270397" data-attributes="member: 673">Interestingly enough, I've never had anyone make fun of me for being into D&D.  I've never made a secret of it, and have played in some capacity since middle school (for reference, I graduated from high school this past spring).<disclaimer>The next few paragraphs are not meant to be offensive or insulting, so if anything I say bothers you, I apologize in advance.</disclamer>I think the best thing for us to do if we want to fight the stereotype/stigma is just to prove to people that it isn't true.  Be normal.  Don't wear your Gencon or WotC shirts around all the time.  Don't tote your dice bag everywhere you go and quote Monty Python.  I'm not saying we should deny our hobby (quite the opposite actually), it's just best if we don't wave it in everyone's faces.  Think about it like this: do the SCA (Society for Creative Anachronisms) people always run around in chainmail and wear a scabbard on their belt? NO.Granted, I doubt our interests will ever reach the level of acceptance achieved by things like professional athletics.  However, that doesn't mean we need to reinforce the negative press we've gotten over the past 20 years (and I realize I'm too young to really know what it was like back in the 80s when it was thought that all gamers were Satanists, but consider that I'm from Alabama, where people by and large haven't changed their opinions about the subject since then. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /> )</blockquote>

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