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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ArchfiendBobbie" data-source="post: 7715144" data-attributes="member: 6867728">There are several out there where racial issues do come up. Call of Cthulhu, for example, has had advice in the past for how to deal with the racism and sexism inherent to 1920s America when playing the game, including advice for how to maturely handle both topics without offending anyone. I find it useful as a teaching tool on the history of racism in America and how that history shapes modern thinking.I specified Black Lives Matter because the movement is extremely political. Racism can be discussed without getting into modern politics, and this site does have a ban on political discussions... a ban which these "games" are serving as a loophole to because we cannot discuss them without discussing politics. That is because these "games" are rooted deep in a political stance.In short, I'm suggesting ENWorld close a loophole. Not a ban on discussions of racism, sexism, or the like in games.FATAL I cannot civilly discuss. That is all I have to say about it.As for the Book of Vile Darkness... Don't the forum content rules already ban discussing most of what's in that?People don't get physically assaulted or lose their friends or family for talking about playing pathological murderers and torturers. People do not get doxxed and harassed out of their communities and jobs for playing pathological murderers and torturers. They do not share the same real-life set of consequences. Thus, using playing those kinds of characters as an example is irrelevant.Life's not fair. And we have to deal with the consequences of that unfairness. Complaining about it is about like me complaining about those who stare at my rear every day; it does nothing but make the complainer miserable.Because I'm tired of fighting against examples like these "games" in trying to prove that feminism isn't a She-ra Man Hater's Club. Because whether or not I want this part of my existence, it's going to inevitably be forced to affect me again sometime in the future simply because these "authors" decided to make these "games." Because this is going to have consequences that will affect me personally. Because the only way I can escape the damage this will do to my cause is to abandon my cause.Because, frankly, I'm tired of fighting a losing war to save feminism from the women on both sides of the line who seem intent on destroying it and seeing women's equality purely a thing of the past.Because maybe, just maybe, I don't want to have this hobby be the thing that kills my hope women can be truly equal.I don't have a choice if I have to respond to these. I already had to explain them away before I even posted on this topic to a few people who I game with. People who were beginning to see the light and consider that, maybe, feminism is actually a good thing. People who, now, have another piece of evidence to say that's wrong.I hope otherwise. Because there are better ways to handle this. Ways that do not damage what's left of the cause, do not prove the negativity about women game authors correct, and ways that actually do show feminism as a positive thing.As it stands? Someone else noted the growing stereotype that women don't like TTRPGs. That they make anti-games. These games? They're just a new entry into the women's entertainment ghetto. Like so many other things that could have been good that focused on women, but ultimately ended up not.</blockquote>

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