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<blockquote data-quote="redrick" data-source="post: 7325783" data-attributes="member: 6777696">Yeah, sorry, the options are way too reductive for a meaningful demographic survey. Women are lumped into one group, but men are broken into &quot;white&quot; and &quot;non-white&quot;? It feels like a pyramid of other-ness. I'm curious to learn about the demographic breakdown of my community, but I just don't see this as helping.I will say, as an aside, D&amp;D (and other RPGs) are like sports in that they can be a great barrier breaker along racial, social and gender lines. Apart from D&amp;D, my social group is defined almost entirely by people I have worked with or people I went to college with, which makes for a very limited subset of the population. With D&amp;D, on the other hand, I've played with security guards, scientists, airport employees, restaurant workers, computer programmers, actors, writers, nurses, orderlies, students and god knows who else. While those groups still skew white and heavily male, I do think the hobby is getting better in that regard.So here's to hobbies that break down barriers.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="redrick, post: 7325783, member: 6777696"] Yeah, sorry, the options are way too reductive for a meaningful demographic survey. Women are lumped into one group, but men are broken into "white" and "non-white"? It feels like a pyramid of other-ness. I'm curious to learn about the demographic breakdown of my community, but I just don't see this as helping. I will say, as an aside, D&D (and other RPGs) are like sports in that they can be a great barrier breaker along racial, social and gender lines. Apart from D&D, my social group is defined almost entirely by people I have worked with or people I went to college with, which makes for a very limited subset of the population. With D&D, on the other hand, I've played with security guards, scientists, airport employees, restaurant workers, computer programmers, actors, writers, nurses, orderlies, students and god knows who else. While those groups still skew white and heavily male, I do think the hobby is getting better in that regard. So here's to hobbies that break down barriers. [/QUOTE]

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