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Message: <blockquote data-quote="S'mon" data-source="post: 1548149" data-attributes="member: 463">That's Political Correctness for you.  Personally I think there's a place for Political Correctness - one of my female players pointed out that WoTC's approach to art, text etc probably does make D&D 3e more approachable for female players than the chainmail-bikini style of earlier years.Also, I was very glad to be able to buy a bunch of old WoTC Chainmail minis from SVgames and _finally_ get a bunch of fully clothed & armoured female fighter minis!  I had a lot of female fighter figs already, but most were of the scantily-clad Larry Elmore-inspired bikini-model type, and I needed more variety.IMC there are highly patriarchal cultures, mildly anthrarchic (opposite of gynarchic)  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f60e.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":cool:" title="Cool    :cool:"  data-smilie="6"data-shortname=":cool:" /> cultures, cultures with relative gender equality, cultures with gender delimitation (eg female Clerics, male Fighters), the occasional matriarchy (often short-lived), one insanely misogynist demon-worshipping city-state based off a Piers Anthony story, etc.  Definitely not total gender equality; most rulers are male, OTOH it's a fairly chaotic world and women who really want to be Fighters can usually find a way, though it's easier to be a Wizard, Sorcerer, Rogue, or Cleric of certain deities - some have all-female priesthoods, some all-male, most take both.I guess there's generally a mild correlation between "Good" and "Gender Equality" IMC; and the more extremely sexist societies (either way) tend to be the more unpleasant ones, although in most instances being a man in a strong matriarchy (probably relegated to farming and other unskilled labour) seems a bit less unpleasant than being a woman in a strong patriarchy (probably either relegated to farming and other unskilled labour, or kept in a harem as a wealthy male's wife or concubine).IMC, YMMV <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    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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