As women gamers, don't you just love it when after someone meets you, they don't talk about your personality or your gaming abilities or your thoughts on the matter, but rather how hot you were? Sure, must feel good to know you're pretty, but it would probably be nice to be known for more than just that. One writer gives her opinion on sexism in gaming and compares and talks about it with recent Heroes chat.

From the article:

Through the LJs of some women gamers, I came across the feminist sf blog. Its most recent entry is "Gaming and Feminism", and is interesting. All that led to a post by a man about the non-white-male characters in the telly show Heroes (link for the 0.01% of the gamer geek world who haven't seen the show). It's very interesting, and brings up a lot of thoughts about women gamers, and female characters in roleplaying games.

For example, there's a guy who's well-known for politeness and reasoned consideration of things - Dan Davenport, moderator and authour of many reviews at rpg.net - when people were talking about the personality of a woman gamer (admin Nina at rpg.net), he said that

"having met Nina in person at GenCon '05, she is entirely worth having the hots for."

So they were talking about she was honest or decent, he said she was a h4wt chixxorz. Why? Was someone asking if they should date her? And this is a guy who as I said, is well-known for polite decency. Hell, you can't even say "fuck", in his irc chan #rpgnet. So moving on from the polite sexists to... some anonymous bloke here, and the infamous "Mr. Analytical" here went on to ask if she was worth titfucking.

Interestingly, no-one asked if she was a good roleplayer, or GM. You might've thought that'd be relevant on a forum called therpgsite, but apparently not. Just "does she have big tits?"

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