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<blockquote data-quote="Guest&amp;nbsp; 85555" data-source="post: 8230242"><p>I don't know. It wasn't the 1950s. It was the early 90s and there was a lot of progressive thought happening, especially in the gaming community. About half my group was female at this point, it was really common, at least where I lived, for women to focus on having a career (in fact a knew&nbsp; a lot of women, my mom included, who chose to focus more on raising children and that was seen by many as something of a negative, so I don't think it is entirely fair to characterize this time in that way). But more than that, we can't get into their heads. Maybe they were projecting things they had absorbed. Maybe they were projecting things that were personally meaningful to them (and maybe if someone else had been writing the black boxed set, we'd have had female characters focused on something else). For me the bottom line isn't whether these characters line up with today's sensibilities, but whether they work as believable and effective horror villains. I think there is no doubt were this written today, it would be more balanced overall. But it wasn't written today. I don't think we can judge it by today's standards in that respect (especially when it was ahead of its time in a lot ways).</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="Guest 85555, post: 8230242"] I don't know. It wasn't the 1950s. It was the early 90s and there was a lot of progressive thought happening, especially in the gaming community. About half my group was female at this point, it was really common, at least where I lived, for women to focus on having a career (in fact a knew a lot of women, my mom included, who chose to focus more on raising children and that was seen by many as something of a negative, so I don't think it is entirely fair to characterize this time in that way). But more than that, we can't get into their heads. Maybe they were projecting things they had absorbed. Maybe they were projecting things that were personally meaningful to them (and maybe if someone else had been writing the black boxed set, we'd have had female characters focused on something else). For me the bottom line isn't whether these characters line up with today's sensibilities, but whether they work as believable and effective horror villains. I think there is no doubt were this written today, it would be more balanced overall. But it wasn't written today. I don't think we can judge it by today's standards in that respect (especially when it was ahead of its time in a lot ways). [/QUOTE]

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