Argyle King
Legend
Read the first line, here:
The post about Gygax in particular was in response to you, DarkCrisis, saying that it wouldn't be appropriate to call it hateful.
Because of the first line in my post, here, where I mention the earliest creators of D&D and their attitudes.
That is the context of bringing Gygax into the discussion. It's also part of why I linked specifically back to the Frazetta thing to show that Greenwood and Gygax both brought the oversexualization/objectification of women into D&D early on. Not that it was one or the other.
Please do not try and reframe my statement about "The earliest creators of D&D" as believing Gygax wrote this book.
Anyway. Yes. They're both different people. And they both brought problems into D&D from the start. That was my point. At least Ed Greenwood probably wouldn't misgender me.
I wasn't reframing it.
I'm just not comprehending the logic of equating one man's obsession with the female body with the probability that a different person may view you a particular way.
I would easily agree that there's certainly some overlap in the views of people from a particular time, just as there are some commonalities among people writing the game now. I would also agree that sexualized content was common. (R.E. Howard once lamented that he felt pressured to include such content so as to sell stories to publishers.)
I guess what I'm trying to say is that I feel there are at least a few degrees between "she's got huge tracts of land" and "I don't think this game is for the female brain" and "I hate an entire group of people."