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

[J.F.Scott at bton.ac.uk]

> My conclusion: UA is a damn good game.  It is, in fact, a great game.  But
> its influences are just too esoteric for your average gamer.  I'm tempted
> to
> say that this woman Chad had been having his conversation with just
> doesn't
> get it.
> 
> 
Okay,

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.

To [mis]quote Shakespeare; "Methinks the list doth protest too much".

UA is a game very firmly set in the late 90's, and in the UK at least,
that's a time where the rise of lad culture has been very obvious.  So much
so that the 'laddette' has emerged - women who enjoy sex for it's own sake,
drink, watch football, smoke and swear.  In fact, behave like lads. Clothing
has become more unisex, and more ornate - look at the clubwear that Cyberdog
etc. are putting out. The culture _is_ changing and UA reflects that.

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.

John

(and as a final final point, "She is the cats mother", as my mum used to say
- Jo has a name - let's give her the courtesy of using it, neh?)

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