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Message: <blockquote data-quote="fusangite" data-source="post: 3668739" data-attributes="member: 7240">Everybody creates, for him- or herself, their own personal belief structure. It is not a matter of those of use who choose to hew to more traditional social structures being less enterprising in seeking out a scheme that works for ourselves. Many of us who join traditional denominations and political movements or form traditional conjugal relationships are every bit as experimental and questioning in the process of finding structures that work for us; we just arrive different conclusions. It takes no more creativity to follow a stigmatized subculture than it does to follow the mainstream.Well, people gravitate towards subcultures that are accepting of them. I'm sure I could find the same high density of gay people in the seminary for celibate clergy. It's just that that crew would be united by shared disapproval of their sexual identity/inclination.Again, I'm afraid I'll go for a simpler psychological explanation. One of the biggest selling points of RPGs has always been wish fulfilment for social outcasts. Indeed, it constitutes the premise of pretty much anything White Wolf writes -- subcultures that feel persecuted, tie their sense of self-worth to a belief in their originality and imagination and wear their 'persecuted outsider' badge proudly are going to have pretty predictable wish fulfilment fantasies that can be easily catered-to.But you are just operating in one corner of gaming. There are the politics gaming nerds, the army gaming nerds and a host of other groups that probably don't even overlap with the pagan/poly gaming scene.Or they decided to follow the Buddha's advice that it was time to stop trying to solve all discrepancies between what one has and what one wants by changing what one has.You seem to have this idea that mainstream people and people in subcultures other than your own are somehow fundamentally less special snowflakes than you. You may be couching it in obfuscating language. But what you are doing is minimizing, the uniqueness, creativity and deep personal conflicts around identity and society that are being experienced elsewhere.</blockquote>

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