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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ycore Rixle" data-source="post: 3830888" data-attributes="member: 675">True, there hasn't been a regular column in Dragon written by a female. But we hear from female gamers, and in particular female WOTC/TSR staffers, publicly all the time. Heck, the editor of Dungeon magazine was a girl back in the day. More recently, there are zillions of books and articles edited by Penny Williams. We hear from her all the time. Not to mention Gwendolyn Kestrel, who was WOTC's freelance coordinator up until this summer, and as such had a huge hand in virtually all the 3.5e books over the last few years. Not to mention Jennifer Clarke Wilkes, Amber Scott, Jean Rabe... these are just off the top of my head. We hear from female gamers constantly.*shrug* I guess that tastes differ. I enjoy neither Shelly's style nor her content, at least in this article. This is not to say that I don't think a column on men, women, and sex issues in gaming is a bad idea. I'd love to see a Camille Paglia-style take on DnD. But that's not this article. This article and its heading seem to say, Read this because it's about games and it's written by a girly-girl. That strikes me as immature, condescending, and misguided. Anyone who has played DnD with girly-girls knows that they are just as likely as the next gamer to be screaming for kobold  blood and fighting over the treasure hoard. Where's the fresh perspective in that?</blockquote>