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Message: <blockquote data-quote="James Heard" data-source="post: 2168216" data-attributes="member: 7280">The people I play with patronize and pat EVERYONE on the head who has never played an RPG regardless of their gender-specific qualities. I have to watch myself for doing it to my daughter who's now playing in a Silver Age Sentinals game now. I had to resist it with my younger brother when he was in high school. I recklessly embraced it when I ran a game for my non-gaming bar crew once. When the strippers at the club I worked at showed up for a D&D game once I had to keep everyone FROM doing it (because otherwise the girls would just eat them all alive.)Anyways, I've even ran for and played in games ran by my friend's mothers when I was a LOT younger. I got patted on the head and patronized, even though I'd been around the hobby for a while then - I was just younger than everyone else. I don't think it's a sexist notion, but a newbie thing. The only thing that bothers me about women gamers is when they radically change the tone or group dynamic of my game, and that's a problem for any player that joins the group - it just has specific possibilities that don't always exist in male groups (though I've played in groups where I was the only heterosexual male playing too - so I realize that that too is a sexuality thing, and not a gender issue.)</blockquote>