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<blockquote data-quote="Dausuul" data-source="post: 5298117" data-attributes="member: 58197">All right, before I step in on Beginning of the End's side: I'm not out to accuse anybody of misogyny, just explaining why certain statements are sexist. I've said sexist stuff myself on occasion--not by intent, just not thinking about it--and didn't realize it until it was pointed out to me by others. Pretty much everybody does; we all pick up the attitudes of the society we live in. It's not a personal attack unless you choose to make it one.Since this treads very close to real-world politics, and in the interest of not starting a flame war, I'm not going to argue any of the below points. This will be the end of my commentary in this thread. If you find this helpful, great. If not, just ignore it. If you want to discuss it further, send me a PM, but I probably won't reply if all you have to say is &quot;You're being oversensitive.&quot;&nbsp;So, why did the poster not say, &quot;There is NO worse player than the DM's significant other?&quot; By this logic, a boyfriend or husband should be just as bad.That's the casual sexism in this statement. Either you're assuming that a DM's significant other is always female, or you're assuming that female significant others are worse than males.This is mostly okay. The poster is describing specific events here; if giggling and smiling is what the wife did, then it's what she did. The choice of words is a bit unfortunate, but I wouldn't really characterize this one as sexist.This is the worst of the lot by a fair margin. Massive generalization about how women behave in relationships, fueling some nasty stereotypes.Again, massive generalization and playing to stereotype.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dausuul, post: 5298117, member: 58197"] All right, before I step in on Beginning of the End's side: I'm not out to accuse anybody of misogyny, just explaining why certain statements are sexist. I've said sexist stuff myself on occasion--not by intent, just not thinking about it--and didn't realize it until it was pointed out to me by others. Pretty much everybody does; we all pick up the attitudes of the society we live in. It's not a personal attack unless you choose to make it one. Since this treads very close to real-world politics, and in the interest of not starting a flame war, I'm not going to argue any of the below points. This will be the end of my commentary in this thread. If you find this helpful, great. If not, just ignore it. If you want to discuss it further, send me a PM, but I probably won't reply if all you have to say is "You're being oversensitive." So, why did the poster not say, "There is NO worse player than the DM's significant other?" By this logic, a boyfriend or husband should be just as bad. That's the casual sexism in this statement. [i]Either[/i] you're assuming that a DM's significant other is always female, [i]or[/i] you're assuming that female significant others are worse than males. This is mostly okay. The poster is describing specific events here; if giggling and smiling is what the wife did, then it's what she did. The choice of words is a bit unfortunate, but I wouldn't really characterize this one as sexist. This is the worst of the lot by a fair margin. Massive generalization about how women behave in relationships, fueling some nasty stereotypes. Again, massive generalization and playing to stereotype. [/QUOTE]

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