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Message: <blockquote data-quote="nothing to see here" data-source="post: 2033298" data-attributes="member: 16432">Well, there's wisdom in cliche's.  If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck...In one of the cities whose media I monitor there is a columnist...who swears to be apolitical...he's a journalism prof who claims to be bringing his experience to encourage an aware public.  The fact that EASILY 19 out of every 20 columns take a very strong and consistent political slant, he dismisses as irelevant.Not acknowledging bias does not make it less so.  Denying the presence of bias adds insult to injury as your in effect insulting the intelligence of the reader.In a newspaper where the cost of purchase is low and you can skip disagreeable content, this is not a big deal.  In an RPG book where, chances are, you purchased it because of some cool rules material or setting...and got a heaping pile of ideology instead...that's far more problematic.The Book of Erotic Fantasy was deliberately designed to provoke...even more so than it was deisigned to titilate.  It was an obivous and deliberate "agenda piece" speaking against the what the designers perceived as creeping cultural conservatism of the industry leader.  It billed itself, however, as a book that opened up new options around romance and sex in RPG's...one of the biggest loads of hooey in the history of add copy.  There was tremendous blow-back from a number of quarters...and my reckoning is, despite the free publicity...the agenda pushing ended up hurting sales.Of course, I stand to be corrected.</blockquote>

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