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<blockquote data-quote="MoonSong" data-source="post: 7175918" data-attributes="member: 6689464">[MENTION=4937]Celebrim[/MENTION] let me explain how this is rife with peril. In fiction when there is a lone female character, it is quite easy to see -feel, it is unconscious- this one Smurfette as an statement about all women. In a rulebook, when the book explicitly says women get to have less strength, gut feeling just reads &quot;in this game women are not allowed to be strong, these guys think all women are weak&quot;. It doesn't matter if the game designer doesn't think like that, or if you never plan to play a woman with high strength, the gut feeling is just a giant red flag. And that kind of red flag doesn't fly nowadays, at least not if you want young women and girls to pick this game.At least with videogames this isn't that apparent unless you are a diehard that knows all the gears behind the screen. Even then, games like Pokemon have corrected this stuff over the years. (It used to be that male pokemon where better and more likely to be shinny, nowadays that is no issue)&nbsp;(BTW. About 'Other' as a verb, I don't remember how I first used it, but nobody had corrected me before so I thought it was fine)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="MoonSong, post: 7175918, member: 6689464"] [MENTION=4937]Celebrim[/MENTION] [B][COLOR="#EE88DD"]let me explain how this is rife with peril. In fiction when there is a lone female character, it is quite easy to see -feel, it is unconscious- this one Smurfette as an statement about all women. In a rulebook, when the book explicitly says women get to have less strength, gut feeling just reads "in this game women are not allowed to be strong, these guys think all women are weak". It doesn't matter if the game designer doesn't think like that, or if you never plan to play a woman with high strength, the gut feeling is just a giant red flag. And that kind of red flag doesn't fly nowadays, at least not if you want young women and girls to pick this game. At least with videogames this isn't that apparent unless you are a diehard that knows all the gears behind the screen. Even then, games like Pokemon have corrected this stuff over the years. (It used to be that male pokemon where better and more likely to be shinny, nowadays that is no issue) (BTW. About 'Other' as a verb, I don't remember how I first used it, but nobody had corrected me before so I thought it was fine)[/COLOR][/B] [/QUOTE]

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