"Jester" David Gibson
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Posted by:
The_Jester
on Jun 16, 2012 at 08:08:43 AM
There was a lot of responses to my piece of sexism in D&D art, published last week. People responded in the comments, my inbox, and on twitter. One of the more frequent counterpoints was that cheesecake art was a part of the history of the game and a convention of the genre, that D&D has always had the cheesecake art and underlying tone of sex. Which implies the two are one and the same, that you cannot have D&D without the thin piecrust of sexism and objectification lurking underneath. Or that by making D&D sexless you’d be removing some subtle or ineffable part of the game. I disagree. Completely. Condemn Not CondoneThe American South had a long history of oppression and racism. Plantations and humans as property were such a large part of the culture and it was difficult ...
Posted by:
The_Jester
on Jun 6, 2012 at 04:42:27 PM
Here I go: throwing my hat into a ring that I probably shouldn’t; this blog was inspired by the continued debates over stat limits set by biological sex and art in the D&D books. I hesitated over this blog for a long, long time and have delayed it five or six times, to really think and rethink what I want to say. On the one hand, I’m not exactly a discriminated minority being a straight white male with no physical or mental handicaps, aside from being slightly overweight and my propensity to sit in a basement with likeminded friends rolling plastic polyhedrons while pretending to be a wizard. And while some might argue that the “overweight nerd” is an oppressed minority throughout high school, I do not think this even remotely compares. I almost trashed this blog ... |
