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Gamers and "gender-inclusive" language

Started by TheShadow, July 08, 2008, 06:26:18 AM

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walkerp

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obryn

Quote from: Jackalope;224218If the number of women using this forum were to grow, you would rapidly see this forum degenerate into the same sort of soft-headed, idiotic travesty that rpg.net is.
I had a witty comment, but nothing can really outshine this statement.

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Koltar

Quote from: jgants;224416Why don't you just start all your posts with, "Dear Penthouse Forums, I never thought this would happen to me but..."  :p

You know all those guys writing those letters probably viewed it as a creative writing exercise.
 (...and they were always about women who had chests sized 23C. )
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Jackalope

Quote from: obryn;224488I had a witty comment, but nothing can really outshine this statement.

No you didn't.  You had a witless comment, and you offered it up.  It's right there, I'm looking right at it.  It's dull and has been done before.  In this thread.

Seriously though, you know why this board attracts less women gamers than other boards?

No moderators to manipulate.

If Pundit were to implement a reporting feature and some vague courtesy rules that required us to treat each other with respect, this place would slowly transform into a clone of rpg.net, with little cliques and social games ruling the day.
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J Arcane

Quote from: obryn;224488I had a witty comment, but nothing can really outshine this statement.

-O
One of the nice things about having little to no moderation is sometimes it just means far more rope for the really dumb ones to hang themselves with.
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Kyle Aaron

Oh well, since Dominus Nox ran away, we've been looking to fill the position of village idiot for therpgsite. For a while I wondered if it might be Anthrobot, but since his return from his absence he's not been outstandingly stupid.

I say we hire Jackalope for the position. He's demonstrated great potential for the role.
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Jackalope

Quote from: Kyle Aaron;224517Oh well, since Dominus Nox ran away, we've been looking to fill the position of village idiot for therpgsite. For a while I wondered if it might be Anthrobot, but since his return from his absence he's not been outstandingly stupid.

I say we hire Jackalope for the position. He's demonstrated great potential for the role.

I'm starting to wonder why you seemed so hostile to tangency style nonsense in that "Jack's Hot Chicks" thread.  Using passive-aggressive ostraciziation games like this, you would fit in perfectly on tangency.

Stop being a little faggot Kyle.  You want to start shit with me, start shit with me.  This faggoty little game you're playing "Let us ostracize Jackalope, let us assign him a special place in our little society" is beneath contempt.

Who the fuck is "we" anyways?  Give me a list of names, turdmuncher.

I'll tell you who "we" is.  "We" is the group of pathetic, passive-aggressive turdlickers to chickenshit to stand alone.  "We" is a group of mindless, conformist fucking asswipes who assert their supremacy over others by ensconcing themself in faggoty little circle jerks of social acceptance.

You're fucking pathetic.  You want a fight, fight.  Don't give me this feces-dribbling-from-the-corners-of-your-mouth bullshit.

Fuck, this is EXACTLY the shit that makes rpg.net such a useless clusterfuck of self-satisfying asskissers.

Go fucking die by your own hand Kyle.  The world needs less of you.
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obryn

Quote from: JackalopeSeriously though, you know why this board attracts less women gamers than other boards?

No moderators to manipulate.
You know there are other unmoderated boards with lots of women on them, right?

I'd tell you which ones, but I'm worried you'd show up.

Quote from: Jackalope;224524You're fucking pathetic.  You want a fight, fight.  Don't give me this feces-dribbling-from-the-corners-of-your-mouth bullshit.

Fuck, this is EXACTLY the shit that makes rpg.net such a useless clusterfuck of self-satisfying asskissers.

Go fucking die by your own hand Kyle.  The world needs less of you.
Holy fucking shit!  You're not just a misogynist, you're a misogynistic internet tough guy!!  A veritable mall ninja!

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Thanatos02

I'm pretty sure Jackalope is the same dude who reveled in his shutting down of an RPG.net get-together, which I'm sure makes him feel really badass.

Basically, Jackalope, nobody is impressed. You're obnoxious, and your attitudes towards women are both backwards and sad. I'm spelling it out because you either didn't get it before, or are labeling mine or the words of others as passive-aggressive. It's simply this - you're not just a jerk, you're anunimaginative jerk without any compelling points.

What are you doing here? Accomplishing something? I've been entertained for hours, but it seems you're just getting worked up. So, at the risk of poisoning my own entertainment, maybe you should just stop typing.

Now, I moved into the Seattle area, which according to what I understand, is pretty much in your back yard. Of the posters you're slamming, I'm the one you who stands to be beaten, mall-ninja style. That's just a risk I'm willing to take, I guess.
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Edsan

Quote from: obryn;224539I'd tell you which ones, but I'm worried you'd show up.

So, since Jack's theory is wrong what do you think is the reason we are supposedly starved for female forumites here?
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jeff37923

Quote from: Kyle Aaron;224517Oh well, since Dominus Nox ran away, we've been looking to fill the position of village idiot for therpgsite. For a while I wondered if it might be Anthrobot, but since his return from his absence he's not been outstandingly stupid.

I say we hire Jackalope for the position. He's demonstrated great potential for the role.


I'm not going to pay his wages.
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Brantai

Quote from: Edsan;224541So, since Jack's theory is wrong what do you think is the reason we are supposedly starved for female forumites here?
I'd guess it's a matter of demographics.  More male gamers than female == more male posters on internet gaming boards than female.  It seems like such a dramatically low number here because there's such a low number of regular posters in total.

That's my guess, anyway.

Jackalope

Quote from: Thanatos02;224540I'm pretty sure Jackalope is the same dude who reveled in his shutting down of an RPG.net get-together, which I'm sure makes him feel really badass.

I revelled in the fact that their own idiotic paranoia made it easy to manipulate them.

QuoteBasically, Jackalope, nobody is impressed. You're obnoxious, and your attitudes towards women are both backwards and sad. I'm spelling it out because you either didn't get it before, or are labeling mine or the words of others as passive-aggressive. It's simply this - you're not just a jerk, you're anunimaginative jerk without any compelling points.

The exact same thing could be said of you.

The part that confuses me is that even though we're both apparently unimaginative jerks with no compelling points, you seem to be operating unde rthe delusion that you are so superior to me that you have the right to conscend me and talk to me like I need a fucking lesson from wise old you.

Get the fuck over yourself.   You call me an internet tough guy, but you're no better.  You're an internet sage, a dumb fucking jackass who gets his jollies off pretending he's all deep and wise.  You're not deep and wise.  You're just a parrot.

QuoteNow, I moved into the Seattle area, which according to what I understand, is pretty much in your back yard. Of the posters you're slamming, I'm the one you who stands to be beaten, mall-ninja style. That's just a risk I'm willing to take, I guess.

I never said anything about beating anyone up.  When i told Kyle if he wants to fight me, fight me, I din't mean "in person with your fists."  I meant if he;s going to start shit with me, don't be a pussy about it.  Call me names "to my face" as it were.  Come at me directly.  Talking about me like I'm not reading this, talking around me, that's just obnoxious, petty passive-aggressive shit.  That's shit for people who can't actually handle a flame-war, who need to make all of their attacks indirectly.

You call me a jerk, a fuckhead, an asshole, whatever.  Tomorrow I won't care.  But you pull that kind of passive-aggressive shit on me, create an atmosphere around me that's just nothing by poisonous mist, that's just cowardly shit, that makes me actively dislike you.  It's corrosive.  A forum can survive flamewars.  You can have one today, and have a civil discussion the next day.  Flamewars are just people blowing off steam because they find each other's arguments frustrating.

That passive-aggressive shit though, that just leaves people ticking with anger, unable to get back at you, and can drag a whole forum down.  That kind of shit rules the day over at rpg.net and the WOTC forums.
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