benlehman | (no subject)

In other news: Point out and criticizing the stupid things that men do to try to get sex is sexist against women.

I'm trying to wrap my head around this.

I've been in many games where the girl who the GM wants to get in bed, or already has in bed, gets special attention, "cool plot," etc. It's stupid boy behavior (never seen a girl GM do it) and one of the downsides to having one person with %100 of the social and material power in a gaming group. It's stupid and it happens constantly.

How is pointing it out an attack against the women involved? The only situation I can think of is one where a girl likes this behavior, and is afraid that acknowledging her privilege will take it away.

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It's true that the person to talk to isn't the favorite, but the whole group, directed at the authority figure ("Dude, you keep making Suzie's character the center of attention constantly. She finds it creepy, we find it boring. It's not cool.")

It was the "it doesn't happen, and if it does don't talk about it" vibe that I found creepy.

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--Ben

P.S. "It's just a game" is, of course, a trump for anything involving RPGs. You should probably view this sort of thing through the same lens that I view the high-lar-ious webcomic arguments -- even if it seems silly from a distance, it's probably very important to the people involved. Artists are all touchy and stuff.