Cyndyr

Post a random fact about yourself.

I hate kids.

OOC Gender Restrictions

To give an example of what we could have asked for in such:
We desire a straight female player with brown or sandy blonde hair of average build of above 22 but below 30 years of age who is not neurotypical, but instead has a diagnosis like Asperger's Syndrome or something else within the autism spectrum. Intelligence must be high (at least in the top two percentile fraction and she may not currently be pregnant with an artifically engineered embryo created by a genetics research lab dealing in illegal experiments. She must be willing to become part of such experiments, though. She must be willing be asked play a male half-giant, half-orc barbarian obsessed with the decapitation of halflings. Not that the RP will concern such, but she must be willing to play that.

Is that an appropriate request, or does that anger several people here? Even if you do not agree with it, would you accept someone having such desires, even if they do not match your own?

@Ellri

To be honest, I would find this to be a little bizarre and extremely specific, but like many others have already stated, I would also think that it isn't any of my business. For that reason, no, I don't inherently think this is sexist nor would it anger me in the slightest.

Christmas Gift Game

A dildo.

Frokane's Mildly Politcal Hangout Thread

I found that my college is where apparent The Triggering occurred. I felt the urge to tell somebody, but nobody on campus gives a shit. That leaves me with you guys. Hopefully you can have a little fun poking at my college or some shit like that. Enjoy?

Word association Game!

So please keep it clean.

@Luna Amore

You must be new to Spam.

Christmas Gift Game

A warrant for arrest.

OOC Gender Restrictions

To start off, I'm really sorry to learn that you got abused when younger. So my sympathies go to you.

That said, this is a reason (I never thought of) as to why people may be selective and both sexist. As you said you were wary of makes, and as much as that is a reason there are 100 more that fit this category of thinking and are not necessarily sexist. Yes it may limits one's options but there's no point in placing your personal self in an uncomfortable state just because others say that you must treat all equally.

@NuttsnBolts

Thank you for your thoughts, I appreciate the sentiment.

With that said, I don't necessarily think that many people consider this possibility nor do I find it to be sexist. Narrow-minded, perhaps, but not sexist. I never once held hatred for the male gender and even despise those who preach that women should. In my case, I just found them a tad bit scary when I was younger and uneducated in the fact that people can be abusive regardless of gender.

I should also state that I think it's a little too much of a jump to imply that people solely looking to Roleplay with one gender or another are inherently sexist (though I won't deny that the possibility could certainly exist).

The people in here criticizing role-play discrimination on the basis of gender in Romantic or Erotic RPs. Probably have racial, height or body type preferences in real life.

@Dynamo Frokane

I think this is a fairly sound point to keep in mind as well. We have preferences. It happens in both real life and in Roleplay. We're allowed to have them just as people are allowed to dislike that we have them.

OOC Gender Restrictions

How is that relevant to excluding roleplayers based on gender.

@DeadDrop

It isn't.

I'm a bisexual woman and I Roleplay with all genders equally. When I was younger, I might have been more inclined to Roleplay with females though. My reasons would be entirely comfort based as I was sexually abused by a male as a child and encountered (vastly male) perverts while on the internet which was a little scary for a thirteen-year-old. In my opinion, abuse and bad experiences are entirely valid reasons to request NOT Roleplaying with one gender.

Could it be ignorant? Yes, it can be. We still have to remember that the Guild does cater to a wide range of ages and backgrounds, however, and we should at least attempt to be open-minded. If someone requests to only Roleplay with one gender, then that is entirely their choice. Roleplayers have the right to preferences, after all.

OOC Gender Restrictions

This is quickly becoming an uncivil discussion and there is never a reason to be attacking another individual for their opinion. With that said, I agree 100% that gender is irrelevant when it comes to Roleplaying, but I also feel that Roleplayers have the right to their own preferences. I always perceive it as a matter of comfort. If someone doesn't feel comfortable writing with the opposite/same sex, then that's totally fine, but they're probably going to miss out on some golden opportunities.

Anyway, that's my quick two cents. I have to return to writing a paper on pit bulls. Thanks for reading.

Ciao.

Looking Back - 5 months have passed, what now?

Yes, the victim trend is becoming rather strong, isn't it.

@ArenaSnow

We're getting complaints about this thread becoming toxic when someone's disagreed with.

A goal of any of these threads seemed to be, "Let's not get it closed for being out of control."

Just a friendly warning it may be starting to shade in that direction.

@Ruby

Not trying to moderate this thread or anything, but I never said that Ruby didn't have a point when she said this (and neither did J8cob as far as I can see, but I could be wrong). We were able to do quite a lot based on the first thread that Odin created such as helpful guides and nudge Mahz who has since fixed the PM system and added new tags as well.

Now, I don't necessarily stand by the idea that this thread or any of these threads will do anything, but I would like to kindly ask if you could either offer constructive criticism and opinions or simply leave it be. Thank you kindly in advanced.

I don't agree with all of what Odin posts, and I do consider him biased to some degree, but he's actually bothered to advance the topic, while you & co are simply crying victim and not really doing anything in the discussion.

@ArenaSnow

I must have missed where you contributed to the conversation.