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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Clint_L" data-source="post: 9651689" data-attributes="member: 7035894">This. I've also been inexplicably accused of beatifying Williams, apparently because I've pointed out that a lot of the hate directed at her is blatantly sexist (that is inarguable; there are plenty of receipts that I and many others have cited), and because I've argued that in 1985 she saved TSR from immediate collapse, a point that Snarff explains in detail in the OP. Again, I think the historical record is clear: TSR under Gygax was done. If it wasn't Williams, it was bankruptcy.On a personal level, I have commented that she seems like a rather unpleasant boss and I wouldn't have wanted to work for her, though I note that, according to Ben Riggs in Slaying the Dragon, every single person he interviewed who served under both regimes preferred her leadership to Gygax and the Blumes (possibly on the principle that any leadership is better than no leadership). And she definitely didn't speak nerd or have any passion for our hobby, which I think is an extreme failure if you plan to be successful in a niche industry. So she had big faults. But ousting St. Gary was not one of them. That was all him.</blockquote>