Quote from: VisionStorm;1115438I've been saying this stuff since before it was cool and all I ever got was an appeal to non-existent Latinos that supposedly exist somewhere and apparently support this stuff. And that me being Latino and living in an actual Spanish speaking island where 99.9% of the population outside of gender studies departments DO NOT use that term (which is unpronounceable) does not invalidate the tiny percentage of largely US born or raised Tumblrite Latinos that apparently do. Cuz we ALL have to remember the small minorities within minorities of brainwashed ideologues who want to push nonsense on the rest of the population and take their fee-fees into consideration.

"Latinx" is an anglicized imperialistic* abomination of the Spanish language that does not follow Spanish language structure or can even be pronounced and exists solely as decoration to appeal to the cultural sensitivities of ideologues that clearly see Spanish speaking people as ignorant savages that need to be told how to speak their language properly, in the gender-ideologue approved way. It's just proof that these people are entitled petty tyrants and their "concern" for the marginalized communities is only skin deep and a tool for their own advancement.

*which is what SJWs are: a bunch of cultural imperialists taking over shit so they can tell their presumed subjects what's what, while pretending to be "decolonizing" stuff or some other nonsense when colonizing is precisely how they operate.

Again, not on topic. Don't keep posting about this or face consequences.

Same goes for ANYONE posting about Latinx or any other subject that isn't about gaming. People doing it from here on in will be banned from the thread. Repeat offenders will be banned from the forum.

Back on topic.

Has anyone actually had to face off against this sort of segregation outside of gaming conventions?

Quote from: Omega;1115500Back on topic.

Has anyone actually had to face off against this sort of segregation outside of gaming conventions?

Outside of a convention, I'm not sure how easy it would be to even know that segregation was going on. For private gaming groups, I assume that if some one wants an "X only" group they just won't invite anyone who isn't X.

Though I suppose there are the folks who don't actually play, but go onto social media to crow about how they won't allow cis/het/white/males into their (nonexistant) games.

Quote from: Dimitrios;1115503Outside of a convention, I'm not sure how easy it would be to even know that segregation was going on. For private gaming groups, I assume that if some one wants an "X only" group they just won't invite anyone who isn't X.

I've seen a couple of situations where a circle of gamers that mostly knew each other developed cliques.  Basically, once the circle of people gets large enough, the shared activity subdivides into smaller groups that are a better fit for each other--except that since no one is every quite completely "out", the divisions can fester.  Though in both of the situations I witnessed, it was more about personality fit than anything else.  One of them did divide a little on a roughly conservative/progressive line, but even then there was cross-over to some extent.  I think the excluded people were excluded because of personality, but an outsider could have observed the political division and guessed otherwise.

I mean, if you've got 20+ people gaming, and they have several different games going on, does it really matter that persons A and X never play in the same game?

Quote from: Omega;1115500Back on topic.

Has anyone actually had to face off against this sort of segregation outside of gaming conventions?

I think it's not normally possible to know why you are refused membership of a group. Anyway I prefer to make my own groups - and if I get kicked out I just make another one.

I guess I regulate group membership a bit for who's pleasant to play with; never for any SJW protected characteristic per se, but someone may be on the autism spectrum and this result in them being weird and unpleasant to be around & cause me to disinvite them. We did have one person turn up once who seemed to be a scary SJW type, she scolded us for starting late and was generally unpleasant, she didn't come back but I didn't disinvite her. The vast majority of players with SJW protected characteristics (gay, lesbian, trans, non-white etc) are just regular gamers who just want to play like everyone else. I particularly like lesbian D&Ders, they tend to combine the best of male and female players IME - good at roleplay, good with rules crunch.

I try to keep politics away from the gaming table but it can occasionally be a source of slight tension, in the UK it's mostly Remainer vs Brexiter. The usual issue in London is Remainers assume everyone else is a Remainer and that Brexiters are mysterious trolls living in caves out in the hills somewhere. So they may occasionally say stuff without thinking.

Obviously, an entirely private group operating in a private home can have any makeup they want. The point is only relevant to public or semi-private gaming.

That is what I meant. At game shops and other non-convention, but still public, venues?

Quote from: Omega;1115893That is what I meant. At game shops and other non-convention, but still public, venues?

Yes.

Quote from: Omega;1115893That is what I meant. At game shops and other non-convention, but still public, venues?

Yup.

One of the local game shops tried to start up a Ladies Game Night.  They had only their female employee working that night and advertised it like crazy.  It offered a place for women of all ages to come out and play CCGs, board games and RPGs.  They didn't say which ones though.  I'm guessing they didn't want to say something specific, like Magic or D&D, because they didn't know what would draw a crowd vs turn them away.  From what I heard it was popular enough to keep up with for almost 2 months and then just kinda died out.  No clue why.

Do you really have no clue? heh c'mon.

WHY would you have a Ladies Game Night for roleplaying/CCG's and assume it would be successful in any meaningful fashion? Even in clubs/bars, all "Ladies Night" means is their booze is cheaper and/or there is no cover. But men certainly are welcome.

Ladies Night in Gaming means something entirely differently that has nothing to do with selling product, or even being pro-gaming. It's just more politics.

Quote from: tenbones;1116201Do you really have no clue? heh c'mon.

No, no, no.  I completely get why in Current Year this was a thing that got done.

I'm a little more surprised at the outcome though.  I would have expected it to flop from the start or to have had enough local womxn to become a thing.  The fact that it lasted for about 7 weeks and then died was the odd part.

Quote from: rgalex;1116214No, no, no.  I completely get why in Current Year this was a thing that got done.

I'm a little more surprised at the outcome though.  I would have expected it to flop from the start or to have had enough local womxn to become a thing.  The fact that it lasted for about 7 weeks and then died was the odd part.

Yeah, two months is not that bad all things considered. My local gaming temple is *massive* and it's largely overrun with the Usual Suspects(tm) (which is why I rarely go there), and a lot of them are chromatic-haired theyples, but even with their substantial population there is no way that place could support Ladies Night alone. Given thought, yeah maybe two-months if they try hard. Sounds legit.