Heh. Good point. The world of Physics that spawned this post is 30 years ahead of the world of gamers in this instance: no one says, "Hey we should get more chicks into our Physics program, because then we can date them!"
Reminds me of the time I answered an ad on Craigslist along the lines of "we're all male, and we're looking to add some women gamers, to play Amber or M&M" or somesuch. Turned out to be a group of very fat men, the ad-posting one of whom hadn't gotten much buy-in from the rest. So one ignored me, one was 3 hours late, one spent all that time hitting on me... The ad-posting guy explained that he wanted a woman to help him change the whole group's playstyle to something more story-based and less fight-based.
Thank you, no.
No, really.
;)
Anyway, would it work to phrase it so that the percieved problem was more acknowledged? Like, "As of October '05, only 22% of the posters here are female. We want this board to be welcoming to people of all genders, so if you're running into anything that would make this place offputting to women, please let [feminist mod] know."
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Reminds me of the time I answered an ad on Craigslist along the lines of "we're all male, and we're looking to add some women gamers, to play Amber or M&M" or somesuch. Turned out to be a group of very fat men, the ad-posting one of whom hadn't gotten much buy-in from the rest. So one ignored me, one was 3 hours late, one spent all that time hitting on me... The ad-posting guy explained that he wanted a woman to help him change the whole group's playstyle to something more story-based and less fight-based.
Thank you, no.
No, really.
;)
Anyway, would it work to phrase it so that the percieved problem was more acknowledged? Like, "As of October '05, only 22% of the posters here are female. We want this board to be welcoming to people of all genders, so if you're running into anything that would make this place offputting to women, please let [feminist mod] know."