anyway: marginalia

thread: 2006-04-06 : I roleplay with my penis

On 2006-04-07, Vincent wrote:

Avram: Has anybody actually complained?

Worse!

This is, as Larry says, all about Tony's manifesto, and there are a whole stack of threads on the subject right now over at Story Games. I'll link to a few in marginalia in a second. And yes, some people are complaining - about Tony's manifesto, not about me by name, although I'm sure some group my usage in with his - but that's not what this is about, I'm totally sympathetic to their complaints.

Particularly, Jess' Very Special post is on point, not tone-deaf or humorless (calling a feminist humorless is a shit thing to do anyway, I wouldn't even if she were), and Mo's Virago rejoinder to Tony is pitch-perfect.

(Whether Tony's genuinely gendering his roleplaying or just taking the joke farther than I would, I don't know, but I figure the conversation's going overall extremely well and he and they will work it out. It's not much to do with me anyway.)

So the people complaining don't bother me. They're pointing out that gendering play styles is moronic by pointing it out; I'm pointing out that gendering play styles is moronic by doing it as a joke. I'm in solidarity with them, even if they don't know it, and that's fine.

No, worse than complaining. What gets me is there's this one guy who's taken to calling his roleplaying style "girly," as though that actually did distinguish it from mine. Yeesh.

This makes jrs go "I so want "girly""
roleplaying to mean "I roleplay with YOUR penis", but I suspect that was not the intent.

This makes BR go "As for Mo's Virago post..."
As there has been confusion: that is the way she plays. And she wasn't doing it because Tony was wrong, but because she wanted to be able to do what Tony had done in her own tone. It's most interesting to me that some folks don't see them as different, and some see them almost as opposites.

This makes RE go "Welcome to my world"

This makes Mo go "Yay!"
Somebody (besides Brand) got it! I was beginning to despair. ;)