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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Felon" data-source="post: 5947436" data-attributes="member: 8158">To clarify further, I mean "denying" as in telling people that "the evidence is in" and "there can no argument". The following seems to your bombshell that cracks the case wide open:As I stated before, I do not see it as a given that women feel excluded by virtue of cheesecake that is, frankly, not overrepresented. I've seen women pick up a D&D book and say "oh, she's pretty" or "give me a break" just as they would flipping through some fashion magazine. As I edited into a post above, I submit that the casual attitude towards extreme violence that is typical of RPG's and the gamers is not a draw for them. What is D&D without combat? What percentage of spells pertain solely to freezing, incinerating, electrocuting, shredding or simply tossing big ol' spray of acid onto living flesh? D&D can be said to be about a lot of things, and you can certainly have a session without an initiative roll, but I think we'd be kidding ourselves that D&D started out as and to this day remains an outlet for violent power fantasies that are just as prurient and objectifying and desensitizing as any slap-n'-tickle fantasy.How many times have folks here been in a situation where a parley ended with a PC knocking someone's head off their shoulders? And when it happens, doesn't everyone at the table chortle like it was the cutest thing in the world? Maybe some folks don't find it all that cute.</blockquote>

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