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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DinoInDisguise" data-source="post: 9603084" data-attributes="member: 7045806">Without commenting on the politics of the day, or the political aspect to this topic. And without getting into my personal opinion, which is full on apathy on these topics.Many of the monsters are based in hundreds or thousands of years of mythology. Simply throwing that out due to a subjective modern sensibility was always going to spark some amount of distaste. Medusa is a good example. Male Medusas are simply a modern creation in pursuit of fixing a perceived injustice. If you do not perceive that injustice from the source material, you may find the deviation from that source material to be undesirable. Or worse, disrespectful.Mariliths are a D&D creation based on Hindu mythology. One where gods and demons often have six arms. You will see in a quick google search of the word that it is universally depicted as a female upper body. Even with this more modern monster, there is a momentum to the established "lore."Anytime WotC changes a long  standing monster, no matter the reason, there will be push back against it. That push back is simply a rejection of changing of the monster. This is because the perceived issues being fixed are not universally perceived. A reasonable person could read Marilith's origin and lore and not percieve sexism, as an example.That all said, it's WotC's game but you can depict monsters however you wish. One of the great strengths of this hobby is it's ability to be personalized to fit one's own needs and desires.</blockquote>

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