Comments on: Women Who Game /blog/women-who-game/ Tabletop games and adventures Sat, 14 Apr 2018 21:10:45 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.4.2 By: Lloyd Metcalf (FSG) /blog/women-who-game/#comment-1697 Sat, 14 Apr 2018 21:10:45 +0000 http://www.failsquadgames.com/?p=1535#comment-1697 In reply to Lloyd Metcalf (FSG).

also this… and numerous others
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/01/08/donald-trump-may-win-this-years-word-of-the-year
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/thinking-man/they-the-singular-pronoun-that-could-solve-sexism–but-is-it-gra/

Oxford recognizes the use, minimally as a preference and acknowledging that it’s happened since the 16th century in literature.
I’m ok with using it still, and for this purpose (gaming) creates a more inclusive text, which in itself, is enough to convince me to keep using it.

]]> By: Lloyd Metcalf (FSG) /blog/women-who-game/#comment-1696 Sat, 14 Apr 2018 20:55:25 +0000 http://www.failsquadgames.com/?p=1535#comment-1696 In reply to Joe.

I defer to the following article
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4293036/#!po=63.3721

]]> By: Joe /blog/women-who-game/#comment-1695 Sat, 14 Apr 2018 17:48:57 +0000 http://www.failsquadgames.com/?p=1535#comment-1695 As somebody pointed out, “they” in this instance is grammatically incorrect. There’s noting really pedantic about correct grammar; it is what it is. “They” is a plural pronoun that doesn’t match the singular antecedent. The better way to write this would be to make the antecedent plural, too (change the magic user antecedent to magic users and fix the verbs accordingly).

]]> By: Lloyd Metcalf (FSG) /blog/women-who-game/#comment-1693 Thu, 12 Apr 2018 14:08:07 +0000 http://www.failsquadgames.com/?p=1535#comment-1693 In reply to mikemonaco.

That alternating in the same place was just…. a terrible idea. I kept losing track of what the topic was trying to figure out who the text was referencing.

]]> By: mikemonaco /blog/women-who-game/#comment-1692 Thu, 12 Apr 2018 11:56:49 +0000 http://www.failsquadgames.com/?p=1535#comment-1692 Yeah that’s the fix I prefer. Alternating genders of examples is fine too, as long as a give passage is consistent. I noticed the same problem with 3e stuff being confusing because they’d alternate pronouns within a passage.

]]> By: Charles A. Wright /blog/women-who-game/#comment-1691 Wed, 11 Apr 2018 16:07:40 +0000 http://www.failsquadgames.com/?p=1535#comment-1691 I prefer the use of “they”, as you do, Lloyd. I know that I will suffer the slings and arrows of grammarians more pedantic than I am, but so be it.

]]> By: Lloyd Metcalf (FSG) /blog/women-who-game/#comment-1690 Wed, 11 Apr 2018 15:11:02 +0000 http://www.failsquadgames.com/?p=1535#comment-1690 In reply to Dennis Sustare.

What about the player though? What if they (see what I did there?) want to play a gender fluid rabbit?
If the player prefers “zhe” for example, zhe can add it mentally if the text is neutral.

]]> By: Dennis Sustare /blog/women-who-game/#comment-1689 Wed, 11 Apr 2018 15:02:17 +0000 http://www.failsquadgames.com/?p=1535#comment-1689 In the new edition of Bunnies & Burrows we are using the arbitrary “he” or “she” throughout, and it feels pretty natural to do so. As we near completion, we intend to do a global pronoun count, so we can go back and do a little balancing if necessary. We’ve tried to avoid any suggestion that one gender or another is assumed for a certain profession (class). Admittedly, there are more human genders than are covered by just these two pronouns, but for the rabbit world they seem to suffice.

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