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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 6203367" data-attributes="member: 4937">OP writes blatantly sexist and offensive post under guise of taking moral high ground.No doubt he/she/whatever it doesn't matter also wishes to say how sexist I am for thinking so.Look, I've gamed with many women over the years.  They aren't a bunch of shrinking violets whose delicate sensibilities need to be protected.  The only incident of attempted rape between PC's in my entire history of being a DM was acted out by two female gamers.  I've found that in general female gamers are just as likely to get their characters pregnant fooling around with attractive NPCs as male gamers are likely to father illegitimate children chasing after cheesecake barmaids.  (On the other hand, one female gamer retired her character to raise the kid, something I've never had happen with a male gamer.)  You are stereotyping female gamer behavior and attitudes every bit as much as anyone.   In a prior thread we had a female police officer gamer defend strength caps because she said it was realistic that female warriors would use other resources to win fights.   Not all women have the same beliefs and attitudes.  You can't sit here defining all women the same and in your image and not expect that I'm going to find that small minded and sexist.You want me to advocate speaking out against sexism wherever I find it?  Well ok then.Your whole cavalier chivalry attitude as guise for squelching any content you find objectionable just needs to go.PS: That whole 'women bear pain better than men because well duh childbirth' thing is myth.  No scientific study has ever shown that, and in fact all studies have shown the opposite.  The myth's origin is again, in stereotyping women and mystifying them - not in anything real.  There is an argument that women on average live longer than men because they don't bear pain as well and so actually take care of themselves rather than trying to tough their way through it, but so much gender research right now is tainted by 'you can present any result you want so long as you frame it as women are better than men', that I'm pretty much treating all of it is suspect and tainted by bias until we get over as a society all this 'woe is me you are oppressing women' double standard thing.</blockquote>

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