Even the Gilmore Girls don't like D&D....

[Tom Cashel]

My girlfriend told me she'd rather have me getting together with friends to smoke pot and booze it up, than play D&D.

"What?" I asked incredulously. "You'd rather I went out and broke the law than play a game?" Not that I give much of a crap about what the law says...I just wanted to be clear on this.

She couldn't quite explain why, but that was about the size of it. It's a prejudice, plain and simple. Like phobia, it is irrational and unexplainable.

(Anybody know of a one-bedroom apartment for rent in D.C.?)

 

[Flexor the Mighty!]

The mere thought of watching the Gilmore Girls is far more unsettling than any negative references they have made to D&D.

 

[Zarrock God of Evil]

I'm glad this prejudice is virtually non-existent in Denmark - probably because religion and the like is treated as something that's "just there" - not something anyone really pays attention to (IMO that's a big plus). It's generally viewed as being "geeky" though, even though most players I've ever known were quite the opposite actually. Funny that...

-Zarrock

 

[Furn_Darkside]

Salutations,

Maybe we should organize a Million Geek March on D.C.- and demand to be considered under the hate-crime laws.

FD

 

[Sir Osis of Liver]

i SAW AN EPISODE OF FREEKS AND GEEKS where the nerd kids got the "popular, cool kid" to join them for a game. The gaming seens were pretty in depth and funny, the "cool" kid ends up putting aside biases and having fun.
There was also an episode of newsradio where Mathew talks about D&D.
both of these senned pretty positve.

 

[Wolfspider]

The mere thought of watching the Gilmore Girls is far more unsettling than any negative references they have made to D&D.

Well, I love my girlfriend, you see, and I'd do anything for her, even suffer the kind of pain and humiliation I feel when watching the show. The fact that Gilmore Girls wins out over Buffy in the ratings game week after week just adds to my suffering.

At least my girlfriend enjoys playing D&D. She's never threatened to leave me because I played. Not like my ex-wife. (Notice the "ex"--its presense is telling.)

 

[Psion]

Speaking of misconceptions and prejudice against D&D... one of my married players finally found a babysitter so his wife could come play, too. However, the babysitter found out WHY they needed a babysitter and said that we are all going to hell.

 

[Sir Osis of Liver]

Are you saying were NOT all going to hell?

DAMN!

 

[ColonelHardisson]

Gilmore Girls is a good show. I'm comfortable enough with my own manhood to admit that.

 

[Henry]

AH!

Another recent reference struck me!

Last year, In Disney's Recess cartoon, one of the "gang" of central kids is sent to another class (I cannot recall why - I think it's an advanced class or something like this) - but he meets some D&D "geeks" (the game had another name, like "knights and quests" or some such).

He at first finds it the height of geekiness, but then joins in, and enjoys it immensely. Later in the episode, he denies being friends with the gamers, only to defend one of them out on the recess field. The moralistic lesson of the episode was that "different kids" are people too (or I should say, people with different pop culutural likes). It was possibly the most positive reference to gaming and "geeks" I ever saw on TV. If I ever catch the episode again, I will watch it more carefully.