Heroines Kickstarter

[Gold Bearer]

New forbidden topics:
Feminism
Disney Princesses
Miniatures

gold bearer are you kidding because that was the first on topic post in this thread since you hijacked it with your hate ranting troll arguments, seriously calm down man

I did no such thing you big fibber. I reacted to a couple of remarks I didn't like and that was it as far as I was concerned. My posts after that were concerning the prettiness of Princess Jasmin and the availability and whereabouts of Persian princesses in general. After that I was reacting to Once was Mortiner calling me a hypocrite, in the same way you knew I was going to react to your post. It was done, finished, and then you decided you wanted stir it up again. That's trolling! Seriously man, get a clue.

And of course I was kidding! It's called sarcasm. Google it.

Actually I think "Ladies Night" it's technically illegal - In Denmark at least. It's blatant discrimination.

Exams, and all forms of testing for that matter should be banned as well on the grounds that they discriminate against idiots.

Ohhh, those are niiiiice.

Can you prod the forum when that goes live please wolfie?

Well that was a bit off topic.

??? Which thread are you posting too? In 4 pages of reading, this was the ONLY on topic post.

That's why IT WAS A JOKE!

I stand by my positions. The industry favors men over women.

I don't think anyone would disagree with that point, but if minis like this sell well then more will be made. It's not about favouring men, it's about making money.

Period.

Oh, I see. Well that explains a lot.

[Ragnar IronFist]

Should I get all enraged and political and continue to drive a stake in the relationship between me and my mother, daughter and wife... Because 90% of the clothing in any department store is geared towards women? Or 90% of everything at any mall or other brick-n-mortar is geared towards women? I've been thinking maybe I should...

But seriously...

I have high hopes for the future of gaming. I hit the San Diego comic con in the early 90's long before it was heard of to have pretty much ANY women there (especially attractive ones). Now, cos-play is UBER trendy among women. I've been wanting to go for a decade now just to see all the babes. I think other nerdy things are following the same path. Superheroes, Star Wars, and yes.. even RPGs and HeroQuest. Girls are pretty bored with limited traditional roles. They're also bored with breathing fire about any inequality they see (real or not) for that matter. They just want to do fun stuff, same as most guys.

[Goblin-King]

You raise an interesting point about cos-playing being UBER trendy among women.
We've all seen the pictures. A whole lot of these women dress like... Miniatures cynthiale's players wouldn't want to use... Is that an acceptable way to put it?
My observation is that women don't specifically avoid the sexiness. This leads me to believe the sexy miniatures/artwork weren't ever the real issue with the lack of female players.
But then what? Why has roleplaying games traditionally been boys clubs?
Incoming wild theories. I'm just speculating here... Don't hate

* Real RP stuff is in it's own way a very intimate experience. Having a girl around would be embarrassing for young boys. Hence a pure boy group.
* Children tend to play with their own gender. When the boy group is finally old enough to want girls it may already be too late. It's hard to join a longstanding group. Especially as a girl into an all men group.
* Extending the above... Loveless nerdlings would probably do a pretty good job at making the only female player feel like a piece of meat, quickly scaring her away.
But why not pure girl groups then?
* Not many women I know care about getting involved with games that demand an investment equal to learning a language. Whether it's a brain thing or a social thing or a mix I don't know, but I observe the tendency.

[Gold Bearer]

* The biggest difference mental difference between men and women is that men tend to be deep thinkers while women tend to be broad thinkers. Men like to focus intently on one thing while women see the big picture and are better at multi-tasking. This goes back to the caves. Men were the hunters. They had to track and stalk prey. Watch a lioness hunt, hunters need intense focus and patience. Women were basically in charge of everything else, looking after the kids, cooking and defending the cave. Men tend to be obsessive. RPGs are an immersive experience that require an attention to detail and narrow focus. RPGs are more suited to men, on average. All of this is a huge generalisation and any individual can be anything, but this is what you'll see when it's applied to large groups.

[slev]

Studies have, however, shown greater varience within gender than between genders.

Society tends to encourage certain pastime sby gender, and thus boys and girls are conditioned to like different things much of the time.

The concentrations of women within gaming vary. They're more prevalent in Europe than in the US for example. They're more prevalent in boardgaming than in Rolegame RPGs than in LARPs than in hack&slash RPGs than in minis gaming, etc

[wolfie907]

New forbidden topics:
Feminism
Disney Princesses
Miniatures

gold bearer are you kidding because that was the first on topic post in this thread since you hijacked it with your hate ranting troll arguments, seriously calm down man

I did no such thing you big fibber. I reacted to a couple of remarks I didn't like and that was it as far as I was concerned. My posts after that were concerning the prettiness of Princess Jasmin and the availability and whereabouts of Persian princesses in general. After that I was reacting to Once was Mortiner calling me a hypocrite, in the same way you knew I was going to react to your post. It was done, finished, and then you decided you wanted stir it up again. That's trolling! Seriously man, get a clue.

And of course I was kidding! It's called sarcasm. Google it.

Actually I think "Ladies Night" it's technically illegal - In Denmark at least. It's blatant discrimination.

Exams, and all forms of testing for that matter should be banned as well on the grounds that they discriminate against idiots.

Ohhh, those are niiiiice.

Can you prod the forum when that goes live please wolfie?

Well that was a bit off topic.

??? Which thread are you posting too? In 4 pages of reading, this was the ONLY on topic post.

That's why IT WAS A JOKE!

I stand by my positions. The industry favors men over women.

I don't think anyone would disagree with that point, but if minis like this sell well then more will be made. It's not about favouring men, it's about making money.

Period.

Oh, I see. Well that explains a lot.

I have conflicting ideas of how to respond to this but decided to handle it this way firstly your previous tone made it hard to read if you were serious or not which is why i asked, by whitebeards post I see I am not alone in this confusion I do see your point about me provoking a response though to be fair you are condescending I am not a child I do understand sarcasm you are just not very humorous so I'll not be using google to get a clue ( as I prefer bing)

[Gold Bearer]

Studies have, however, shown greater varience within gender than between genders.

Society tends to encourage certain pastime sby gender, and thus boys and girls are conditioned to like different things much of the time.

Society has the biggest influence over the perceived differences between the genders, what I posted is what you get if that's taken away. Women tend to be good at multi-tasking and useless at map reading. That's not society, that's the caves.

I have conflicting ideas of how to respond to this but decided to handle it this way firstly your previous tone made it hard to read if you were serious or not which is why i asked, by whitebeards post I see I am not alone in this confusion

It wasn't even a joke really, just a sarcastic comment. I don't get why it's become a thing.

I do see your point about me provoking a response though to be fair you are condescending

How do you expect me to react to that?

I am not a child I do understand sarcasm you are just not very humorous so I'll not be using google to get a clue ( as I prefer bing)

Bing it doesn't have the same ring.

I am not a child... but you're not funny, you're smelly, you have poo pants, smelly smelly poo pants.

[cynthialee]

well my game table is all girls for the game we play every other week
the only time we play with guys is if guests come in from out of town or I go visit my brother

[wolfie907]

That least that made me chuckle

[Anderas]

I need a notification when that other female mini Kickstarter starts. Could someone remind me the 8th February?