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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mannahnin" data-source="post: 9523208" data-attributes="member: 7026594">100%.And the irony is that he seems to have stubbornly stuck his head in the sand about how the new game category he helped create and did the most to publicize and spread (RPGs) was MUCH more appealing to women than wargames had been.Jon Peterson has documented (in his article <a href="https://medium.com/@increment/the-first-female-gamers-c784fbe3ff37" target="_blank">The First Female Gamers</a>, among other places), that D&D and its related games massively increased the population of women gamers.  From 0.5% as surveyed by SPI's Strategy & Tactics magazine in '73-'74, to Gary's estimation in 1979 that at least 10% of D&D players were female. Twenty times the share.Gary's there mocking and putting down women, while Lee Gold was publishing the biggest and most influential APA D&D zine.  Her story about how stunned he was the first time they spoke on the phone and learned she was a woman is a classic.By the time Gary made his comments on ENworld about being a biological determinist, in 2004, IIRC roughly 38% of D&D's surveyed players were women.Right.  This fight happened in July and sprang up again now because some people wanted to "defend Gary" to the point of attacking and personally insulting honest and reasonable historians who didn't even name Gary.  And when Riggs brought receipts to point out that the attackers didn't have a leg to stand on, they doubled down.  Much as Gary did in 1975.</blockquote>

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