[UA] She just doesn't get it, does she? (was: UA unintenionally sexist?)

[Patrick O'Duffy]

J.F.Scott at bton.ac.uk wrote:

> speaking as someone who had read Eco, Powers and a lot of the other things
> on the recommended reading list before seeing UA, and speaking as someone
> who has a subscription to Maxim and a rad-fem girlfriend, I think there's a
> lot more truth in Jo's opinions than many people here seem willing to
> credit.

I never subscribed, but I used to be a regular reader of RALPH magazine (an
Australian spinoff of Maxim).  And my first partner was a radical lesbian
feminist.

It colours your thinking, it really does.

> As a final point, my UA group is exclusively male, (The only RPG group I've
> even been involved in that can claim that) and when the possibility of a
> woman joining was mooted, we all had reservations.  It would have changed
> the game we were playing, changed the whole social dynamic of the group. We
> decided, even though the woman in question was an able roleplayer, not to
> invite her into the game, because we all enjoyed the game we were playing.

Yoicks.  I admit I'ma bit low on solid female players at the moment (I used to
have more, but they stopped gaming), but I'd certainly never exclude them from
playing UA.
Although with Gangland, I'll probably have to insist on all male PCs.  Female
PCs won't make sense in the highly sexist world of the Mafia.

--
Patrick O'Duffy, Brisbane, Australia

Sumo is the most perfect of sports.  It has elegance, ceremony, danger,
art, speed, and, most important, two fat bastards smacking the shit out
of each other.

 - Spider Jerusalem, TRANSMETROPOLITAN #26



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