Reply to thread

Message

<blockquote data-quote="Dire Bare" data-source="post: 5209818" data-attributes="member: 18182">I don't know if I'm buying all you're selling, but I agree that the RPG hobby is often a &quot;boy's club&quot; and sometimes, some of us boys get all territorial when the girls try to invade our space.While I personally prefer to game with friends, regardless of gender or orientation, I've noticed that several of my past games (not all) took on the atmosphere of &quot;Poker Night&quot; or &quot;Guy's Night Out&quot;.&nbsp; All male groups taking the chance to get away from the wife/gf and kids for an evening and revel in geeky guyness (lots of off-color humor, and waaaaay to much flatulence).&nbsp; It was interesting to observe our behavior when we thought we were alone, and how it changed when the hostess walked in to ask her hubby a question.&nbsp; If one of our female friends had asked to join in the game, we would have happily invited her, but it would have changed the dynamic entirely and I don't doubt there would be some unvoiced resentment.I know when I was a kid, the D&amp;D games were a chance to escape from the cruel world we didn't fully fit into or understand, and that included girls!&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dire Bare, post: 5209818, member: 18182"] I don't know if I'm buying all you're selling, but I agree that the RPG hobby is often a "boy's club" and sometimes, some of us boys get all territorial when the girls try to invade our space. While I personally prefer to game with friends, regardless of gender or orientation, I've noticed that several of my past games (not all) took on the atmosphere of "Poker Night" or "Guy's Night Out". All male groups taking the chance to get away from the wife/gf and kids for an evening and revel in geeky guyness (lots of off-color humor, and waaaaay to much flatulence). It was interesting to observe our behavior when we thought we were alone, and how it changed when the hostess walked in to ask her hubby a question. If one of our female friends had asked to join in the game, we would have happily invited her, but it would have changed the dynamic entirely and I don't doubt there would be some unvoiced resentment. I know when I was a kid, the D&D games were a chance to escape from the cruel world we didn't fully fit into or understand, and that included girls! :) [/QUOTE]

Verification