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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Steampunkette" data-source="post: 8780957" data-attributes="member: 6796468">"As I have often said, I am a biological determinist, and there is no question that male and female brains are different. It is apparent to me that by and large females do not derive the same inner satisfaction from playing games as a hobby that males do. It isn't that females can't play games well, it is just that it isn't a compelling activity to them as is the case for males."Gary Gygax[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.enworld.org/threads/q-a-with-gary-gygax.22566/page-91#post-1333187[/URL]"A number of the chaps with families are bound to bring them next year so that thay can enjoy the charms of Lake Geneva, a true tourist trap with plenty to amuse women and children not enthralled by the lure of gaming."Gary Gygax[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.enworld.org/threads/q-a-with-gary-gygax.22566/page-213#post-2464510[/URL]"20 years? Way to short a period. The fantasy and SF pulp zines in the 1940s were rife with scantily clad women. Frazetta and Boris became famous for such work.Now that's not politically correct. Tough <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> It still is fun, and it sells."Gary Gygax[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.enworld.org/threads/for-everyone-who-piles-on-avalanche-for-their-covers-please-look.1644/page-3#post-21445[/URL]"Just so. The only limit I placed on female PCS was no Str above 18. In actual history female participation in what would be considered adventuring was virtually nil. i am always amused when history programs on the tube attempt Political Corectness by featuring the only examples of female duelists, pirates, warriors, etc. They represent less than one percent of the whole being considered, and featuring one-armed men in the same roles would be at least as meaningful historically. Frankly, not only did society generally prevent such participation, but I believe most women were generally not the least interested in engaging in such dangerous and questionable activities."Gary Gygax[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.enworld.org/threads/q-a-with-gary-gygax.22566/page-106#post-1449350[/URL]I can't stress enough that he said this stuff -here-. On ENWorld. Before it became against policy to say stuff like this.Maybe he didn't walk around lamenting that women weren't all Gor for him or treated women as stray dogs to be kicked...But this is the Gygax... The person chiefly credited with creating our hobby. Throwing out "Females" with the same sort of derogation as you might here on incel forums.And it really feels like he'd misgender me in order to maintain his "Biological Determinism". And that -sucks-.</blockquote>

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