Re: video games

Alex Block (ablock@FACSTAFF.WISC.EDU)
Thu, 14 Mar 1996 09:23:24 -0600

>It *really* shocked 'em when they realized (this past
>weekend) that I wasn't a 'spectator' at the gaming tournament, but that
>I was one judging/refereeing the whole shmoz. :>

Hee hee! Delightful, Deb ;)

>I'm not sure why roleplaying games attract so many more men than women.
>They don't *have* to be violent. They don't tend more towards either
>the left or right brain (in fact, they're often more creative than
>logical)...etc. In an RPG you can be or do anything. So, why?

Culture-wide habit? Are boys encouraged to use their imaginations while
girls are encouraged to be practical? I don't remember it being that way,
when I was growing up. I've no idea.

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Alex <ablock@facstaff.wisc.edu>
My father is not a bad man. He is only a weak one. And he only did
what so many men do: he divided women into groups, although in his case
it was not the body-and-soul dichotomy of the madonna and the whore but
the intellectual twins, the woman of the mind and the one of the heart.