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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nisarg" data-source="post: 1671562" data-attributes="member: 19893">´On the surface, you would appear to be right. However, upon some consideration, your argument is incorrect.The crux of the matter is that RPGs are "games".  They are simulations, in other words, of social environments. If you are roleplaying in a time, world, or setting where sexism is an inherent part of the culture, then it is the responsibility of the simulationi, for accuracy, to represent that. What you are arguing above would imply that an historian, when writing a book about the civil war, should re-write history to imply that there was no slavery, because to do otherwise would "disempower" modern day blacks who read his work.Or that a playwright penning a historical drama about ancient rome should have a female emperor, even though there wasn't one, because otherwise women would feel unequal.Or that a movie production of Henry V, or Lord of the Rings, should show female soldiers, even where there wern't any in the original stories, because to do otherwise would be insensitive.Historical revisionism is never a solution to anything.  Usually if a female actress complained because she didn't have the option of playing the King in the medieval play, you would suggest to her that she either accept it as part of the need to create an accurate simulation, or that she go find another play to be in if she really doesn't like this one. With roleplaying its the same.Nisarg</blockquote>

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