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.

Thats because after a point you start to realize the group isn't as fun as you had thought and probably is even less "safe". You used to see this on Yahoo-Groups like clockwork. Someone would declare a new splinter group split off from some central interest. It would get some folk joining in. And then after a few weeks to a few months, putter out.

And hilariously. Part of the reason is lack of diversity. And I mean real diversity. Not this fake thing these cultists push. Sometimes this damages the core group as well. But usually the splinter group just merges back into the core.

So you have your model train group. Seems fine. Then someone declares they are making a group only for HO scale set between 1880 and 1890. And eventually it putters out unless you can draw in enough people to sustain a conversation.

Or think of these things as forum threads. A thread can last many pages, and months of discussion. Or fizzle in a page or three. But the forum itself keeps chugging as it encompasses this diverse pool of interests, experiences and insights.

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That doesn't sound very inclusive to cis-men... or trans-men, come to think of it.

Quote from: Snark Knight;1123827That doesn't sound very inclusive to cis-men... or trans-men, come to think of it.

Thats because it isnt. BGG has a women only sub forum. Board gaming is ever so inclusive dont ya know?

How about instead of worrying about who segregated who, lets all just agree that dumb cunts that use black and white labels for things other than acrylic paint should be quarantined and then nuked from orbit?

I'm not into hyperbolic violent fantasies - at least outside the gaming table. I'm just glad there exists a forum - the RPG site - where it's possible to debunk SJWs crap ideas and activism in gaming. Thank you, RpgPundit !

What bothers me is not only how hypocritical these bottom feeders are (we want to be inclusive! except for you, you dirty cismale ham sandwich person), it's like they're dragging the cultural zeitgeist backwards.

See, point of order: I live in the deep southeastern U.S. and we preserved some of the more... egregious examples of sixties-era segregation as historical lessons. And it's bizarre to watch people actually wanting to take us back to a point where you half expect them to demand separate water fountains.

Many colleges have racially segregated graduations, study halls and even dorm rooms. It's a short hop to racially segregated classes, campus zones and bathrooms. All to avoid white supremacy! LOL.

Quote from: Ghostmaker;1124518See, point of order: I live in the deep southeastern U.S. and we preserved some of the more... egregious examples of sixties-era segregation as historical lessons. And it's bizarre to watch people actually wanting to take us back to a point where you half expect them to demand separate water fountains.

AFAICT the modern segregation system is based on white = bad, non-white = good, whereas the old segregation system was based on black = bad, non-black = good.

Quote from: Ghostmaker;1124518What bothers me is not only how hypocritical these bottom feeders are (we want to be inclusive! except for you, you dirty cismale ham sandwich person), it's like they're dragging the cultural zeitgeist backwards.

See, point of order: I live in the deep southeastern U.S. and we preserved some of the more... egregious examples of sixties-era segregation as historical lessons. And it's bizarre to watch people actually wanting to take us back to a point where you half expect them to demand separate water fountains.

It's easy to "Punch up"... when you're hellbent on descending ever downward.