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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nytmare" data-source="post: 7649914" data-attributes="member: 55178">Gender issues, especially concerning the entertainment industry, thrill me.That being said, I want to point out that gender biases have existed throughout history in various cultures for a variety of reasons, and it's not only because men were being sexist.  Beyond that, having gender roles and biases exist in whatever form within your game does not make you a bad person.  Your game world does not have to be an idyllic Utopia free from violence, racism, hatred, and bigotry; and I'm kinda of the opinion that the less it is, the more interesting that imaginary world is going to end up being for D&D type activities.I'm not a sociologist, but I'd imagine that a society has to be pretty "advanced" and high tech to be able to break free from a patriarchal society to a truly gender neutral one.  Hell it's 2013 and we still haven't managed to get it right.  How is the standard, faux-medieval D&D society going to handle breast pumps, bottle feeding, and modern day, institutionalized daycare?  Wet nurses and private tutors aren't going to be available for the vast majority of the population, are they?Again this brings me back to feeling as though stereotypes have a really crucial role in storytelling, and that if you just start pitching them out the window without there being a key reason why, that it'll just muddy up whatever story you're trying to tell.  @<a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/member.php?u=8835" target="_blank">Janx</a>  - I feel as though it's telling that your example of a non-stereotypical character's initial motivations are that she's either flirting with all of her customers or that she's suffering from unrequited love.  That's kind of the epitome of a stereotyped female character in our male dominated society.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />  "Here is a woman, and this is how she's described based solely off of her relationship with men."</blockquote>

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