Sex and the Single Adventurer

[KitanaVorr]

The funny part though is that while I was playing her one of the other PC's started calling her names (of which I'm quite sure DragonGirl would NOT like me repeating in this forum)

Its interesting how the attitudes of the present day leak consistently into the game. Do you generally have problems with this in your games?

Oh no one touched on this. Would you as DM allow a PC to call another PC something like this? (use your imagination on what it was, she's flirtateous and likes innuendos)

 

[Oni]

This thread made me think of something I got a kick out of when I first started gaming a few years ago.

During the course of our adventures we came across a female bard (who would later turn out to be a baddie) who was most interested in our half-elven cleric. She was forceful and seductive and it wasn't long before she managed to bed the cleric, fade to black. After that I overheard the player say that he hadn't really wanted to do it, and so I asked him about it. At this juncture I would like to point out that this was one of the most polite people I knew and by extension so was his character. Anyway I asked him why he had done it if he didn't want to. His response? "I didn't want to be rude."

 

[I'm A Banana]

As long as it was in-character, I guess there'd be no problem with it.

I mean, I'm ASSUMING you're not quite that way in actuallity, right Kitana? It should be fairly easy to seperate character actions and insults from those in the game.

If you were actually offended by it, however, it would be best to ask the player to cut it out. Good, IC fun is one thing, but the moment it starts to breed hostility and negative reactions, that's the moment I kick it out of my game.

 

[Ilen]

LOL!

I wasn't saying that they were held by all women! I was doing a Johnathon Swift's a Modest Proposal approach to make a point when I said it the first time.

Then watch your word usage, women implies more then one, in fact consisting when some utters the word,"Men!" or "Women!" in exasperation it implies all of them you should rethink.

This woman, or I would have been a better approach if you didn't want to attribute your attitudes to others of your sex.

Yeesh, talk about sensitivity. Someone makes a "typical male" joke, and we're all over her.

You claim your joking, but I’m gonna respond anyway. And if a guy made a’ typical female joke’ would he not deserve to be climbed all over? If one is okay and the other isn’t we are talking double standards, which are terrible things. Either it’s okay for somebody to make a ‘typical opposite gender joke’, or it isn’t. Which is it?

 

[I'm A Banana]

Either it’s okay for somebody to make a ‘typical opposite gender joke’, or it isn’t. Which is it?

Perfectly okay, as long as both sides understand that it's only a joke.

There's not a day in my life that I have that doesn't involve me being made fun of for purportedly oggling an attractive woman, and then doing something *just* to lay eyes on her. Most of that is beause I hang out with a lot of women. So, of course, I tease them.

Maybe I'm just more okay with it than most people. ^_^

 

[EricNoah]

I think it's time to put this thread to bed ... eh ... so to speak ...

Say goodnight gracie!