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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sacrosanct" data-source="post: 9444063" data-attributes="member: 15700">Gygax said and did things much worse than what he said on forums or wrote as rules. More than one TSR alum has told me directly some of the really awful things he would say to them.We also know that many of his comments if he felt challenged were to double down in sarcasm. For instance, when asked if early D&D was sexist, he replied with, "If I wanted to make sexist, I would have done X, Y, and Z (things pretty awfully misogynistic). Some people took only the second part to illustrate just how bad he was when his answer in context was to intentionally be over the top because he hated being challenged and reacted extremely defensive, not that he actually wanted to put those things in the game. That all being said, (and I've said this before), none of this is really shocking or new information. The man is dead.  No one will change his mind. All these never-ending discussions do is put his kids in a bad position. I don't think that's really fair to them. Having the last name of Gygax, they are tied forever whether they like it or not, and it's reasonable to expect them to defend themselves due to guilt by association. And who wants to constantly hear people lambast your dad over and over and over and over. My dad is a garbage human being who should be in jail, but I don't want to keep hearing that over and over.Personally, I view him like I do David Eddings, or Michael Jackson, or Led Zepplin. At some point art is separated from the artist. I won't defend him, but I will ask people to remember his kids are still active in the hobby and to take that into account. Do we really need to have a perpetual discussion about what kind of person Gary was?  Is it really important for me to start listing all the bad stuff he did on an internet forum or social media? What am I gaining by doing that, compared to how am I impacting his family by that?</blockquote>

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