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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 5695801" data-attributes="member: 82106">Yeah, this is a whole topic of its own (that has an entire dedicated forum over at WotC, lol). At the risk of speaking for a group of people of which I am not a member my suspicion is that women have as many different opinions of Shelley's columns as men do. Frankly I've had relatively a lot of women in the groups I run over the years for whatever reasons and I think there's simply no generalizations you can make about them as gamers, nor do I think they have special or different needs from a game as a group. I'd imagine it isn't a bad thing for WotC to highlight the fact that your average heavily outnumbered female gamer has company. You may be right that the column could be better served by being outside the paywall though, given that it is more of an outreach tool vs some kind of resource you're going to turn to in play.Finally I'd imagine that writing that column is only one tiny part, and likely one of the less important parts, of Shelly's job. I'm sure there are a vast number of other things she does and brings to WotC. It is of course impossible to say if she's a less vital part of the team than any other arbitrary person there. We don't even know who most of the people who work there are, or what they do exactly, or how that group of people functions. Maybe they'd be better off with Shelly doing Mike's job!</blockquote>