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MystDragon
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 Posted: Fri Nov 12, 2004 8:31 pm Post subject: Am I really the only girl here? |
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I've taken a look at the member list and was quite shocked to see that it seems I'm the only girl member on RPGDX. Am I really alone here?
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Happy
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| Posted: Fri Nov 12, 2004 8:50 pm Post subject: |
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| MystDragon wrote: | | I've taken a look at the member list and was quite shocked to see that it seems I'm the only girl member on RPGDX. Am I really alone here? |
Tenshi is a transvestite, and Mandrake sometimes acts like a stereotypical female. Apart from that, I think the answer would be a resounding "yes."
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Mandrake
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| Posted: Fri Nov 12, 2004 9:07 pm Post subject: |
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My wife stops in here from time to time. She goes under the handle Moira.
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MystDragon
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| Posted: Fri Nov 12, 2004 9:15 pm Post subject: |
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That's quite a bit of a relief to know I'm not alone. I just find it strange that there aren't many girls into this sort of thing.
Most of the girls I know love playing RPG's, and there are so many talented female fantasy writers out there. Seems I'm the odd one out that actually decided to do something about making games.
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LeoDraco
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| Posted: Fri Nov 12, 2004 11:21 pm Post subject: |
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| MystDragon wrote: | That's quite a bit of a relief to know I'm not alone. I just find it strange that there aren't many girls into this sort of thing.
Most of the girls I know love playing RPG's, and there are so many talented female fantasy writers out there. Seems I'm the odd one out that actually decided to do something about making games. |
Hackerdom, while not entirely devoid of females, is predominantly male. Rather unfortunate, but not terribly surprising. There are justifications (whether tautological or not is debatable) that suggest this is due to better spacial reasoning capabilities in males verses females. It might just come down to the stereotypical hacker being the 1970's geek-with-taped-classes, which is offsetting.
(I realize you yourself are talking more about the literary scope of the field, but RPGs in general are more part of "geek" culture than anything else.)
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ThousandKnives
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Joined: 17 May 2003
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Location: Boston
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| Posted: Sat Nov 13, 2004 12:04 am Post subject: |
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| MystDragon wrote: | That's quite a bit of a relief to know I'm not alone. I just find it strange that there aren't many girls into this sort of thing.
Most of the girls I know love playing RPG's, and there are so many talented female fantasy writers out there. Seems I'm the odd one out that actually decided to do something about making games. |
It has been my observation that the inhabitants of this board are primarily programmers who dabble in writing and/or music. 90% of all conversations on this board regard technical elements of the process and not creative ones.
Although there seems to have been a slight shift recently.
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Mandrake
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| Posted: Sat Nov 13, 2004 2:54 am Post subject: |
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That's a good shift though.
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white_door
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Location: New Zealand
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| Posted: Sat Nov 13, 2004 11:50 am Post subject: |
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Call my paranoid but I have a theory that anyone online who has to claim to be both a girl and like computers/programming/games is most likely a 40 year old male bum siting in front of their computer wearing nothing but a sweat stained singlet and boxer shorts.
Its not that I don't want to believe you, its just safer this way. ;)
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Adam
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| Posted: Sat Nov 13, 2004 12:14 pm Post subject: |
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Well we still think you have breasts MystDragon, whatever your gender may be.
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Mandrake
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| Posted: Sat Nov 13, 2004 3:52 pm Post subject: |
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Ok guys, cut it out. Your really showing your immaturity here. Girl or not, we should treat whomever with some grain of respect, rather than make boobie jokes. I don't want this to end up like it did on Allegro.cc.
My wife comes here. She's interested and computer and video games (she plays video games much more than I do...for example, I buogh FF9 for me to play, and she has ended up playing it mroe than I do...), and yet she is not a fat man in stained boxers.
Show some maturity, guys. I know a lot of girls I want to college with who are computer programmers. And alot of them would put you guys to shame. And oddly enough they don't browse forums on computer programming. I *wonder* why?
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biggerUniverse
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Location: A small, b/g planet in the unfashionable arm of the galaxy
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| Posted: Sat Nov 13, 2004 7:15 pm Post subject: |
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Maybe Adam's really a girl. Then him making a comment about breasts wouldn't be so bad. (Or he's a 40 y/o man, etc. etc.)
Anyway, I don't think most people would consider it appropriate (I certainly don't), but I also think it's up to MystDragon to call it, and we'll leave the chivalry for our games.
Adam
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Bjorn
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| Posted: Sat Nov 13, 2004 9:21 pm Post subject: |
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I was never really surprised about this as I am studying computer science for almost 5 years now and there are close to 0 girls there. The few girls that are into this area generally float over to maths, physics or information technology (which is regarded a little as girly computer science, or for alphas instead of betas).
I highly admire any girl that does venture in this field. :-)
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XMark
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| Posted: Sat Nov 13, 2004 9:29 pm Post subject: |
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I'm in the computer systems program at BCIT and the ratio of guys to girls is like 20:1. That sucks.
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Adam
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| Posted: Sun Nov 14, 2004 12:36 am Post subject: |
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I don't think i should treat anyone with respect just beacuse they are female. That's like some crazy form of reverse sexisim. No matter what your gender, race, colour or creed, i will hate you equally.
Whoo equality!
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Mandrake
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| Posted: Sun Nov 14, 2004 1:40 am Post subject: |
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well yes and no. What I'm saying is treat her with the same respect as everyone else, not point out and single out the fact that she's a girl.
Girl's do go into the field, esp in the US. When I was at KSU it was about 1/2 and 1/2. When I worked at WRG, it was 2 guys, 2 girls. Where I work now it's 1 girl, 5 guys, but the year before it was 3 girls 2 guys.
The person in charge of KSU's computer program was female. My wife's ex-best friend went to UB in NY and was a computer science major, as was about 20 other girls in her dorm.
From my experience, it seems pretty even.
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