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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Selkirk" data-source="post: 6344601" data-attributes="member: 6775377">the idea that gender identity and sexuality is the 'hot button' social issue of the day is part of the problem... along with the browbeating from mearls and company about how we ought to think about these issues (and how we should morally align our fantasy campaigns along these lines...do we imagine orcs are culturally sensitive to such issues or that medieval humans are <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />). to a lot of people the hot button social issues are the things that actually matter...poverty/constant wars/immigration. building campaigns and fantasy worlds around those themes actually leads to thought provoking and relevant roleplay (if one is so inclined..perfectly fine to play hobbit style as well). by framing identity politics as the keystone issue of the day (and again telling us explicitly not only how we should personally feel about these issues...but also how the diverse races and cultures in dungeons and dragons should also 'feel' about these issues) we are running a very limited and safe world. onward! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />... i want more david cronenburg and less ron howard in my dungeons and dragons...more perversity less conformity !</blockquote>

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