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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Steampunkette" data-source="post: 9523216" data-attributes="member: 6796468">Anyone who doesn't have to fight to pay their bills pretty much invariably turns to creating art.I love that about humans. <3This is the same dodge.You're trying to say you're not defending Gygax's sexism while also directly minimizing Gygax's sexism.Your reason for minimizing Gygax's sexism is "Other people argued he was a sexist and provided examples of him being a sexist and in fact out of line with other people in his own day and age" which is... y'know. Certainly a choice. We do, after all, have a nationwide poll where 15% of 77 million respondents over 18 didn't outright disagree with the rant Gygax sent to Europa Magazine and 85% directly disagreed with his overt sexism in that letter.So, y'know, top 15% of sexism in the 1970s. Certainly not a top 200 achiever slapping every girl's butt and demanding female employees sleep with him or lose their jobs, of course, but still down there with rest of the rotting chaff -vastly- outnumbered by people who didn't agree with his sexism.But you're still minimizing his sexism in the post that I quoted. Which goes directly against your statements that:1) You didn't post that. (You did)2) You're not trying to excuse his sexism (You're minimizing it)The "Context" in this case is irrelevant because it doesn't refute or otherwise address these two issues at hand.</blockquote>