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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Envisioner" data-source="post: 7973671" data-attributes="member: 6749263">This just in:  Water is wet, and children are idiots.  Film at 11.Another glorious strawman.  Adult women start out as baby girls, and baby girls, like baby boys, gradually develop their worldview by taking in information from the environment in which they're raised, which their parents have a lot of control over.  When their parents are increasingly single mothers who work three jobs and leave a television (or, in this day and age, a smartphone with a few sloppily-constructed parental controls) to do the babysitting, and these pop culture sources are all being created by liberal-funded media companies with feminists on their boards of directors, there is a distinct narrative push happening.  It's inevitable that some such social conditioning happened, but there used to be a less one-sided national consensus; the donkey and the elephant didn't used to hate each other with such quivering, frothing intensity that they refused to engage in civil public discourse.  Time was, you could express conservative opinions without people instantly thinking you were literally Hitler; now, everybody's growing up in a bubble of echo-chamber proportions, and the only real difference is whether it's an isolationist conservative bubble of religious extremists hiding from the world's apparent insanity, or a radical-progressive liberal bubble of postmodernists who think that all meaning is artificially constructed and all the cultural traditions of the social mainstream are evil.  The latter bubble is more likely to produce D&D players, and the former bubble produces most of the people whose tax money is paying to bail out all the failing corporate monoliths who indirectly produce an economy robust enough that people can afford luxury products like D&D books.I don't particularly want to see sexy men; a man which women will think is sexy will probably strike men as being slightly disgusting.  And what is wrong with lingerie-clad jailbait women, exactly?  Once again, this is fantasy, which is designed to appeal to a pre-existing audience which is mostly males, many of whom picked up the hobby while they were going through puberty.  The fact that they imprint on those images doesn't make them evil; it just makes them guys.  And I'm tired of seeing maleness demonized because women are insecure.  If you're a woman, you can find a way to stand up for yourself without having to tear men down and step on their backs.  By all means, put out an RPG sourcebook which appeals to your own aesthetic preferences - just don't expect me to look at it.</blockquote>

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