GMMAS: I’ve wanted to write for a while about Shelly Mazzanoble and the problems I have with Wizards’ choice to promote her as presenting a female perspective of D&D players.
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LOL I love how this unemployed female blogger has all the time in the world to rant on and on (which could fill a novel) about how an attractive girl with her own viewpoint has a different life and therefore experiences than her, and then proceed to badmouth her and call her a sexist. She's committing the same old crime of thinking her life is a representation of the majority of people, or gamers, or those living in "Indie land" as she puts it.
She then goes on at length (of which noone with a life will ever read) presumably about sexism only out of her own ignorance.
At first, not having the proper context of the general "female public" in D&D the blogger seemed to be exaggerating a common frustration....until the examples:
"“Something’s different about me,” I told my boss.
She spun around in her chair. “You’re not wearing heels? You forgot your gym clothes? You finally stood up to your cat?”
“No.” Like I’d ever stand up to Zelda. “Something… bigger. I’m not nervous about DMing.” (July 2010, Canine Encounters Part 2)
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lmao
I don't play D&D(though I've nothing against it, its pretty fun) and I'm not a woman, but sure....FUCK SHELLY MAZZANOBLE!