This is the follow up to the previous article Men wear armour, Women wear sexy-time lingerie. Here I address issues of how men and women are pictured in games, beyond what they are wearing. We will try to answer the this two common questions that often arise in discussion: “What is wrong with pictures...
Read more →Sometimes, two questions pop up when you discuss women wear when they are pictured in games. ”What is wrong with chainmail bikinis? It’s fantasy, it doesn’t have to be realistic!” ”What is wrong with chainmail bikinis? Sexy doesn’t equal sexist!” Let’s try to answer the two questions in this article. In the end they...
Read more →A Black Cat cosplayer responds to objectification at NYCC with a sweet shut-down of an announcer. Awesome! A quote from her post: “Don’t keep quiet because you’re scared of what they might say or think- because if you say nothing they will continue to see what they’re doing as OK.” – (from the article)...
Read more →UPDATE: See the end of the post for a response to this article by F. Wesley Schneider himself! I recently had the opportunity to speak with creators of the Pathfinder RPG at Paizo Publishing, James Jacobs (Creative Director) and F. Wesley Schneider (Editor-in-Chief). The subjects at hand were: the inclusion of the forced-sex...
Read more →(We had a service outage last week, so here are the links for then and now!) Check out this awesome look at victim blaming by glosswitch! – Brie A great reference of Convention harassment policies and who to contact if your Cons (of any variety) don’t have harassment policies – I am not surprised to...
Read more →This is a series of posts on being a gamer wife, what it means, how it has impacted my games and my life. Everything here is coloured heavily by my personal experiences and what I’ve seen in other relationships. So if at all during this series you feel a need to make a personal...
Read more →This is a game report from the LARP “Just A Little Lovin’ 2012”. The game was set in the 80s, and is about how AIDS hit the gay community in New York during that time period. It is a relationship drama about three themes: desire, friendship, and the fear of death. The game was designed...
Read more →One of the first things I do in the sex ed classes that I teach is to talk about how we talk about sex. For most people, in most places, talking about sex is difficult, or at least unusual. So we talk about language first. There are four main languages of sexuality, and a...
Read more →I recently did an article on how to introduce sex into role-playing games. In this article I’m going into why you might want sex in your games. Like in the previous article, the word ”sex” is occasionally used as shorthand for sexual content, sexual acts, sexual relationships, sexual feelings and/or sexual tension. I’ll just...
Read more →As an adult gamer, you may want to include adult themes in your role-playing games. This often means broaching the topic of sex. Many people find it scary to introduce the topic of sex into their games. Not everyone wants to play the actual sex acts, but sex is so much more than the acts....
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