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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GMforPowergamers" data-source="post: 6471798" data-attributes="member: 67338">not to put words in the young ladies mouth, but she called you sexist when you not to subtle hinted that making the knight a woman was harming fantasy as a whole...I think the problem is that some how people talk past each other though. See there is a max % of a book, or a movie, or a TV show... and a lot of people are used to 90% (or more) of heroes to be white straight males. SO when someone (Book, movie, TV, what ever) makes a change and makes it even 60% white straight males, some people feel that "Takes away" but without considering that if you relate to any other group, you still feel shorted...You mention Brave, and it is a great story. It works just as well with anyone in the role. At gen con 4 or 5 years ago I sat down at a shadow run table to play. The DM had 6 players and 8 pregen characters... 5 male 3 female. The problem was the only woman who sat down wanted to play a combat character, and the two he made (Troll bruiser and human street samari) were both male. The story teller kept asking why she didn't want to play the face, deck, or other face he made. I picked up and wanted to play the decker, but he told me "Oh I have a male one too."</blockquote>