#sexism mention

[prokopetz]

Hey why DO all those old tabletop RPGS and adventure games have such weird obtuse "act in this one scene or softlock forever" moments? Like, these weren't designed like arcade games that munch quarters... Why was this sort of thing so commonplace?

(With reference to this post here.)

Funnily enough, for tabletop RPGs there's actually a good answer.

If you're familiar with the popular history of tabletop roleplaying games, you've probably heard the idea that they developed out of fantasy wargaming. That's not actually terribly accurate; tabletop RPGs and fantasy wargames are more like two parallel branches that split off from the recreating-historical-battles kind of wargaming at about the same time, and for the first couple of decades there wasn't a bright line drawn between them like there is today. Many are genuinely hard to classify by contemporary standards – there are a lot of early fantasy wargames that look more like modern tabletop RPGs, and vice versa.

One of the consequences of that lack of sharp distinctions between tabletop RPGs and fantasy wargames is that early tabletop RPGs were often played in a sort of "competitive co-op" format at wargaming tournaments. Multiple groups would run their parties through the same adventure in parallel, and be ranked on their performance; sometimes this would involve scoring points for completing specific objectives, or speedrunning the adventure and aiming for the fastest time, but the most popular tournament format was the survival module: adventures which were deliberately designed to be unreasonably difficult, with whichever group's last surviving character's corpse hit the ground furthest from the dungeon entrance being judged the winner.

The upshot of that popularity is that many published adventures early on – and certainly the greater part of the more infamous ones! – were originally written as survival modules, created to be run competitively at a particular tournament, and later repackaged and sold as commercial products. Of course, practically none of them actually explained that; like nearly all tabletop RPG material of their day, they were written under the assumption that all tabletop roleplayers had come up through organised play at university gaming clubs, and thus already had all the context I've just outlined. This ended up causing no end of confusion when the hobby's mainstream visibility exploded in the early 1980s, and suddenly there were folks who'd picked up the rulebooks at their local bookstores trying to teach themselves how to play from first principles with no prior contact with gaming club culture.

As for why adventure games were also like that... well, this is going to sound bizarre by contemporary standards, and I don't blame you if you don't believe me, but once upon a time, point-and-click adventure games were considered the gold standard for Serious Gaming. Unforgiving routing, bizarre moon-logic puzzles, and a bewildering variety of unique ways to get yourself killed off were held up as the mark of the serious gamer in much the same way that janky soulslike combat systems are today, and a large chunk of the genre was made to cater to that ethos. Gamer culture is a hell of a drug!

(If you're about to ask the obvious follow-up question, "what changed?", the point-and-click adventure game's fall from grace and subsequent dismissal as casual fluff tracks more or less directly with a large demographic shift in the late 1990s that saw the genre's player base skewing predominantly female – and, well, you can probably connect the dots from there.)

#gaming #tabletop roleplaying #tabletop rpgs #video games #game design #adventure games #violence mention #death mention #sexism mention #swearing

[star-trek-fandom-confessions]

Confessions #50

""Amok Time" is one of my favorite Star Trek episodes. Not just because of the Spirk moments, but I also like how Spock praises T'Pring on her logic. Maybe it doesn't mean much since they're Vulcans, but there is still the persistent stereotype even today of "Women are emotional, men are logical" so to have a show episode played in the sixties where the female character is praised by a post-hormonal man for being rational and practical instead of humble and nurturing is pretty huge for its time."

#i love t'pring :) #confession n.50 #star-trek-fandom-confessions #star trek #episode tag: Amok Time #t'pring #sexism mention #tos #the original series #star trek the original series #star trek tos #st tos #spirk mention

[equalperson]

i think we should always take predominant sexes and races for psychiatric disabilities into question.

are men really more likely to be antisocial or narcissistic, or are women just overlooked because ASPD/NPD are seen as too "aggressive" for them?

are women really more likely to be borderline or histrionic, or are they just seen as so "hysterical" that they have to be feminine?

are black people more likely to have schizophrenia or ODD, or are labels of "psychosis" and "defiance" simply used to further dismiss, oppress, and imprison BIPOC?

are white people more likely to have autism and ADHD, or are doctors just more willing to accept that white children are disabled and not just "bad?"

oppressive biases are everywhere in psychiatry. never take psychiatric demographics at face value.

#hi i'm back. i got covid and also into anti-psychiatry #anti-psychiatry #antisocial personality disorder #narcissistic personality disorder #borderline personality disorder #histrionic personality disorder #schizophrenia #oppositional defiant disorder #autism #ADHD #sexism mention #racism mention #antipsych #ASPD #NPD #BPD #HPD #ASD #antipsychiatry #anti psychiatry #anti-psych #anti psych

[real-fire-emblem-takes]

The FE fandom is unfairly criticized for their treatment of main women leads because not enough people factor in how sexist the writing is. Edelgard would get less hate if she was held more accountable. Micaiah would get less hate if she didn't get written out of the final part and awful blood-pact device. Celica and Erika would get less hate if the writers didn't hand them the idiot ball. Female leads are often awful units compared to male counterparts. The male leads always upstage the female ones or are written overall better bc they were unconcerned with making them a sellable waifu. There's definitely sexist people in the fandom, and male characters everywhere get cut more slack, and I'm not denying an element of sexism in all of this, but holding the writers accountable something that needs to get brought up more.

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Im gonna discuss my opinions on this take now.

Edelgard is held accountable and punished for her actions by literally dying in 3 out of the 4 routes. Like the Agarthans are not blamed for what Edelgard did. She takes complete responsibility and suffers the consequences for starting a war.

Erika giving the Sacred Stone to Formortis because she believes Lyon, an extremely skilled healer and magic user who has been studying the stones will get rid of him through using it is a smarter decision than Ephraim attempting to kill THE DEMON KING ALL BY HIMSELF. Like at least Erika's plan made sense and could have worked if Lyon was able to resist Formortis. People who call Erika stupid for her scene while not doing the same for Ephraim's are hypocritical in this regard.

While SOV is quite sexist in how so many of the women are damseled, Celica sacrificing herself for Mila makes complete sense and is not rooted in sexism because at that point in the game most people believe that they still need the gods to survive and a single human life is worth less than the life of a god. Celica trusted Jedah because to her that was her only choice. What is sexist is her having to be repeatedly saved by men while nothing similar happens to Alm.

I admit I'm being extremely nitpicky with this point, but Erika and Celica both act completely in character when they make their mistakes and therefore are not Idiot Balled. Idiot Balling is when a character acts uncharacteristically stupid and out of character to serve the plot.

Idk about the specifics with Micaiah in Radiant Dawn but yeah it sucks how Ike takes most of the spotlight from both her and Elincia :/

The only female lead that is a substantially worse unit than her male counterpart is Erika. She is an outlier that should not be counted. Celica, Micaiah and Elincia all have utility that Alm and Ike Lack while Edelgard is literally just as good of a frontliner as Dimitri. And Lyn is just as weak as Eliwood.

Character writing is subjective.

You are severely overestimating the importance of waifus and underestimating the importance of husbandos to the franchise. Straight and Bi women play Fire Emblem too.

Also characters who have depth tend to be more popular regardless of their gender. It is profitable to have waifus with layers.

I am not denying that sexism was and somewhat still is a thing in the writing and gameplay of this series; However, the fandom is just as guilty in how female characters are treated - perhaps more guilty in the newest two games where these issues rarely rear their ugly head in the story and the gameplay. The fandom should be held accountable too instead shifting most of the blame on the writers.

Anyway if you read all of this, have a heavenly creature i found recently <3

#petty playground squabbles #fire emblem #fe #fandom takes #gameplay takes #story takes #sexism mention

[queerbauten]

To describe Anne Boleyn as a feminist would be an anachronism - and not nearly as appropriate an anachronism as in the case of Marguerite de Navarre and others who openly championed female equality. Marguerite did not have the word, but she was conscious of a women's "cause." There's no evidence that Anne felt similarly. But she had learned to value her body and her ideas, and she ultimately recognized that there was something unsettling about this for Henry and understood that this played a role in her downfall.

"A Perfect Storm", The Creation of Anne Boleyn, Susan Bordo

#The Creation of Anne Boleyn #Anne Boleyn #Marguerite de Navarre #Henry VIII #Tudor history #feminism #misogyny mention #sexism mention #body image mention #? just in case #text heavy #Susan Bordo

[just-late-roman-republic-things]

Just finished reading Fascism: A Graphic Guide by Stuart Hood, and Ur-Fascism by Umberto Eco. Hood traces the development of fascism from the 19th century to the present, while Eco describes common patterns from which fascist movements can develop. Both works are set much later than my usual focus, but I figured they'd be useful since fascists love mythologizing (and warping) ancient history to suit their own ends. I hope that understanding fascist tactics, ideological patterns, and brutality will help us spot, avoid, and oppose fascists who lurk in history studies today.

Some of their tells are well-known: fear and resentment toward the Other (immigrants, Jews, queer people, minorities), subjugation of women, glorification of war and violence, deification of the state at the expense of individual human rights, contempt for the unfortunate and disabled, and intolerance of democracy and dissent. The fascist is attracted to authoritarianism because he mistakes compassion for weakness, and cruelty for strength.

In classics studies I suspect the most common red flags would be glorification of the military, imperialism and autocracy, and a romanticized "return to tradition." Deep down, I don't think most fascists even like actual history: they despise intellectuals for raising irritating counter-points that reveal how ignorant fascism really is. The fascist cares more about his fantasy of heroes and villains, and uses history as a stage. I say he because much of this draws from toxic masculinity and machismo, but of course fascists can be of any gender.

Anyway. I liked both the works I mentioned above, and Miriam Griffin's A Companion to Julius Caesar has good articles exploring how fascism, communism, and other political movements have used Roman history for their own purposes. In my Roman diversity tag I've been trying to collect info on how multicultural the empire really was. Forgive me if I sound sappy, but I believe real strength lies in curiosity, empathy, and pursuit of the truth.

#george orwell's 1984 and animal farm are also thought-provoking allegories if you prefer fiction #be warned that any or all of these can be super disturbing to read and hood's book has graphic images #fascism #book rec #fascism: a graphic guide #stuart hood #ur-fascism #umberto eco #historiography #jlrrt essays #antisemitism mention #sexism mention #homophobia mention

[redd956]

Poem: Boys and Girls

Cw: Sexism, Sui Mention, Body Image Issues, Gender Conformity

"Boys can't cross their legs"

"Girls can't sit like that"

"Boys will be boys"

"But what will your future husband think?"

"No, you can't have that pink shirt"

"Action figures are for boys sweetie"

"Dolls are for girls baby"

"You have to wear a dress or skirt to church"

"What do you mean you need more pairs of pants?"

"That's disgusting that you don't shave"

"I'm not letting a boy shave his legs under my roof"

"This is a boy's hat"

"This is a girls hat"

"You just haven't found the right one"

"You just haven't hustled hard enough to be attractive"

"You can't be fat"

"You must be muscular"

"Starve yourself"

"Dehydrate yourself"

"We don't care about the domestic and sexual abuse rates against women"

"We don't care about the suicide rates of men"

"This isn't a female workplace"

"Men can't be abused"

"You were meant to carry a baby"

"You failed as a man"

"Women are weak"

"Men are dangerous"

"Be submissive"

"Be hierarchical"

Shut up.

#poetry #my poem #writing #my writing #sexism mention #gender noncomformity #down with gender roles

[entity56]

"If women and men are equal, why don't they get drafted/get sent to the military/forced to do hard labor jobs?" is a good point, but not for the reason misogynists may think. The point isn't to A) say women are lesser than men OR B) say we need to force women to do the same things as men.

The point is nobody should be drafted. The point is nobody should be forced to work hard labor or time-extensive, underpaid jobs to survive. The point isn't equal man/woman work load anymore. It's a matter of free will in late stage capitalism. Work should be optional.

#anti capitalism #feminism #anti capitalist #eat the rich #sexism mention #sexism tw #draft #military draft #entity says

[brettdoesdiscourse]

That's not what that is, though. Is it?

Of course, people are allowed to complain about specific men they've had bad experiences with. Hell, they're allowed to complain about the patriarchy/other toxic systems and how it's often perpetuated by men. Even unintentionally because so many have it subconsciously engrained in their heads.

But spreading blatant misinformation is not complaining. Not only is it harmful because it's misinformation, but it harms so many groups.

Of course, there is the obvious. Men of color, trans men, gay men, they all have a long history of being viewed as "inherently evil" as a form of bigotry against them. But even more than that, even if we're talking about a stereotypical cishet white able-bodied neurotypical rich man, sexism is just never acceptable.

And it's incredibly damaging to encourage situations where bigotry is "allowed."

#sexism tw #sexism mention #social discourse #discourse #brett does discourse

[just-antithings]

Not an anti thing but I have a question. If I am fine to reading ☠️🕊️ fiction such as the ones including incest, underage, non-con, violence and torture and etc. but I hate and cannot accept fictions that have racial slurs, purposely written for spread racism or sexism ideology, or are full of far-rightist propaganda and such, can I still call myself a pro-fiction?

First off, this sounds and feels like bait, but I will still answer in good faith.

Who decides what is purposely written to spread hateful ideology? Who has the right to decide what fiction exists? How do we know the authors' intent unless they say it themselves? What's racist when things that are considered racist in America aren't in other countries or vice-versa? None of these questions have straight answers, really, so you can hate it as much as you want, and you don't have to accept it, but that doesn't mean it won't exist.

Writing will always, to some extent, reflect the world we live in. The only way to minimize hateful fiction is to minimize hateful attitudes and behaviors in real life. Not on tumblr, not on Twitter, not on Instagram, and not on AO3.

No matter what you need to recognize that you are the only person who can control your online experience, you need to block things you don't like, and that's all there is to it. So long as you understand that and the fact that harrasment is never okay, you can be a proshipper. Everyone has shit they don't like its how you act in response that defines you.

#mod gatito #asks #incest mention #noncon mention #racism mention #sexism mention

[star-trek-fandom-confessions]

#220

"I hope T'Lyn never turns out to be part human or part Romulan because that would be such a lazy cop-out, especially when Sybok and Sevet are proof you be rebellious or neurodivergent and still be full Vulcan. I know Saavik and T'Pol were originally gonna be part Romulan but I'm glad that got scrapped because it sounds kinda ableist and sexist against Vulcan women who don't conform to cultural and neurotypical standards expected of female Vulcans."

#confession 220 #star-trek-fandom-confessions #star trek #lower decks #t'lyn #vulcans #ableism mention #sexism mention

[lilacs-stash]

"Nickel is sexist " Nickel hates everyone equally regardless of gender. Hope this helps 👍

#Yeah saw a bad post why do people thinks he's sexist how did this happen #worst possible take on him actually #II nickel #inanimate insanity #Object posting #sexism mention

[real-fire-emblem-takes]

People who don't like any of the female protagonists are disturbing to me, they all have varied and interesting designs and interesting personalities and you only like the male ones? Just say you don't like women.

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#fe #fire emblem #fandom takes #sexism mention #fr tho they're all very different characters

[tommyssupercoolblog]

PSA for feminine peeps (regardless of gender ID)

hey look at me. look at me directly in the eyes (or if you hate eye contact pick up a stim toy to focus). you do not have to have any "masculine" traits, not one, to be cool or redeemable or worth anyone's time. you can be the sensitive, weak one who loves animals and wears their emotions on their sleeves and dresses femininely and likes sewing and baking and sweets and the color pink and only girly movies and music; you can want to have or be around kids, you can be a family or romance oriented person, you can giggle and snort laugh over every little thing and cry over every other little thing, WITHOUT ANYTHING TO "BALANCE IT OUT" OR WHATEVER. you don't have to make up for it. what i'm saying here is that when people go "oh this person is weak and stupid because they can't fight or be strong", "this person is a baby they cry too much and just want everyone to be friends how stupid", "this person is shallow because they only care about romance", or whatever, and say they need masculine traits to make them a "real"/"interesting" person or character, they're being jerks. You have merit and you matter and your interests matter. You're not shallow. Being yourself isn't shallow. Loving what you love isn't shallow.

if you have masculine traits too, that's great!!! if you like masc stuff organically, that's pog!!! But if you aren't like that, don't force it!!! You are still a rounded person and your dreams and hopes and self expression are still beautiful and nuanced and worthy!!!!!!!!!!!!!

#i made a textpost #believe it or not this was inspired by a warrior cats video #hearring how the fandom looked down on Ferncloud for just enjoying being a nursery queen and having lots of kids... #how they demanded she fight like the other cats and then the authors killed her in response.... it's sad. #Ferncloud wasn't weak or a bad character because she was a mom who was primarily interested in being a mom. She had nothing to prove. #feminine #fem #femme #fem nonbinary #feminine nonbinary #femboy #feminine man #fem man #fem boy #feminine boy #feminine expression #feminine presenting #fem presenting #femme presenting #sexism mention #sexism mention tw #sexism mention cw

[queerbauten]

But "both sides". 🙄

#Israel #Palestine #Gaza #also if you feel like people are 'unfairly' centring women and children in discussions of the genocide #(which—for the record—I have not seen any of the pro-Palestine voices I follow do) #consider that women and children are making up the current known bulk of the casualties #consider that there may be a reason to centre them—especially the *children* #and again: it feels like—from my perspective—some of you are making up people to get mad at #especially given that we are hearing very little from Gaza proper #what with—y'know—the whole *complete destruction and control of the communications infrastructure* by Israel #but I digress #genocide tw #death tw #violence tw #murder tw #war tw #ageism mention #sexism mention #misogyny mention

[nonbinarymlm]

Green Flags for Cis Male Partners (based on my fiance)*

1) Loves (complex) evil female characters - Cersei is his major GOT fave

2) Is not okay with other men being misogynistic - low bar and yet

3) Is deeply uncomfortable with random sexualized women being all over media and advertisements - okay, he might actually have a trauma response to this in part due to comphet so I don’t know if it counts, but

4) Can be little spoon  - big spoon is good too, but accepting the little spoon vulnerability at least sometimes is important

5) Is bi/pan/queer - look it’s a given, right?

6) Has female and trans friends

7) Is more concerned with sexual violence than false accusations of sexual violence - if this is the other way around then be concerned

8) Is huggable - important

*Disclaimer: this is not a serious post and all kinds of people may be toxic/abusive in relationships as human relationships are very complex. Don’t @ me

#mlm #gay mlm #cis partners #cis men #cis trans relationship #cis boyfriend #relationship standards #relatioships #boyfriend posting #gay posting #fiance posting #sexism mention #misogyny mention #green flags #relationship green flags #love posting #i love him #loving queue