hawkeyefan
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I think you and I are in general agreement in this thread, but I can see how someone could (with some effort) come to the conclusion that Mike's tweet was casting aspersions on women's facility with complex rules and dense lore.
If you accept that "rules complexity and lore density" are being used to "gatekeep" women away from the tabletop RPGs, it can be taken to imply that those are some sort of girl kryptonite. Spread some rules complexity and some rules density around the tree, and it will keep the girls out of the clubhouse. Yes, it is ridiculous. Completely. I can, however, see how the argument was put together, and the parts that were used.
Okay, I can follow that. I feel like that’s a gross mischaracterization of the tweet, but I can see the train of thought as you’ve laid it out.
And yes, I think we’re on the same page about Mearls’s tweet and what he meant.