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<blockquote data-quote="Doug McCrae" data-source="post: 8346124" data-attributes="member: 21169">It's a more widespread concern than it used to be, but it's not new.S MacPherson, letter in White Dwarf #73 (1986) (emphasis mine):It has often struck me that, being nearly all based on the well-worn cliches of pulp fiction, 'pulp drawing, and 'pulp cinema', role-playing games tend to reflect a great number of backward and outmoded ideas. Not only is the role of women reduced to that of a deceitful whore or helpless innocent, but there is also an obsession with the idea of supermen, the idea of uncontrolled but legitimate violence, with the idea of defenceless and inferior people or races, and with the idea of an evil, all-pervading external threat to (Western) civilisation.

The cover of your last issue (WD70) illustrates several of these points very nicely: there is the blond, masculine hero; there is the passive, but deceitful, temptress; and there is the evil, enemy 'green' race against whom our white, blond hero is fighting.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Doug McCrae, post: 8346124, member: 21169"] It's a more widespread concern than it used to be, but it's not new. S MacPherson, letter in [I]White Dwarf[/I] #73 (1986) (emphasis mine): [INDENT]It has often struck me that, being nearly all based on the well-worn cliches of pulp fiction, 'pulp drawing, and 'pulp cinema', role-playing games tend to reflect a great number of backward and outmoded ideas. Not only is the role of women reduced to that of a deceitful whore or helpless innocent, but there is also an obsession with the idea of supermen, the idea of uncontrolled but legitimate violence, with the idea of defenceless and inferior people or races, and with the idea of an evil, all-pervading external threat to (Western) civilisation.[/INDENT] [INDENT][/INDENT] [INDENT]The cover of your last issue (WD70) illustrates several of these points very nicely: there is the blond, masculine hero; there is the passive, but deceitful, temptress; and there is [B]the evil, enemy 'green' race against whom our white, blond hero is fighting[/B].[/INDENT] [/QUOTE]

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