Tabletop Gaming Has a White Male Terrorism Problem
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Tabletop Gaming Has a White Male Terrorism Problem
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#2Tabletop gaming isn't the only place this happening. It's also happening in the video game industry and sci-if. At some point the denial about this kind of stuff (or how bad it is) will have to stop.
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#3Now terrorism means means sexual harassment.
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#4Your first impulse may have been to deny that this happens. Ask yourself, have you asked and then truly listened to your female friends and colleagues if they have ever experienced this before? Please make the effort and gather some anecdata.
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#5Now terrorism means means sexual harassment.
Sexual harassment was diluted by overuse. Gotta up the ante.
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#6Now terrorism means means sexual harassment.
Good. Maybe if the term is diluted to irrelevance it will lose its efficacy as a cudgel to garner support for the latest police state action-item-of-the-month.
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#7That's horrible. But I can't help but think that the right response would be one swift strike to the nose of the person who spoke. Enough to break it and draw blood, ideally. Then, sit down at the table, calmly and sweetly say, "Does anyone else have a comment they'd like to make?"
I'd guess that answer would be a respectful silence. I'd also guess that you'd not hear that kind of thing again for a very long time.
Violence sucks in theory, but it does have it's uses.
EDIT: Lots of downvotes, so let me explain my reasoning. The only alternative to my suggestion is to rely on the goodwill and good sense of others, or reforms in that direction. In general, this is an unreliable approach. People don't have that much good will or good sense. Gamers are usually physically wimpy, and a quick establishment of boundaries in a memorable, dramatic fashion would protect the person for a long time.
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#8Flagged of the first page already. No wonder people think HN is a bastion of misogyny.
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#9Now terrorism means means sexual harassment.
Or, possibly, terrorism means the use of violence or intimidation to achieve an ideological goal, which just so happens to sound exactly like several incidents detailed in the article.
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#10“Find another hobby or you’re going to die.”
In my attempt to get her into gaming, I once brought my girlfriend to an indie game store to grab a controller. The kids there were in the middle of some card tournament. There was an audible COD Twitch stream on the TVs. As we're paying for the controller, a player on the screen yells "Damn dude! He got fuckin' raped!" No one in the store batted an eyelash. The only female in the store, my girlfriend, suddenly felt very uncomfortable. In the parking lot she told me she doesn't want to go into a video game store ever again.