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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Shemeska" data-source="post: 6215795" data-attributes="member: 11697">I hadn't read the entire thread at that point.As for your usage in specific you mentioned, I don't think you're being sexist, no. Nor do I think that you're trying to exclude women.However if you take a random woman and present her with a bunch of RPG books and all she sees are male pronouns used in the book, it can come off as a subtle 'this game isn't made for you' sign. Jane or Joe random doesn't know that male pronouns as a non-gendered generic are being used entirely as a stylistic choice or based on what the author/editor feels perfectly appropriate based on past usage, and their perception may be different in the absence of that knowledge. Avoiding that perception of not being welcome is something that the RPG industry as a whole needs to be sensitive towards (likewise with presenting non-white faces, non-hetero relationships, non-cis-gendered characters, etc in presenting a game that simply reflects the demographics of the potential playing audience).</blockquote>