On Fri, 27 May 2005, Robert A. Knop Jr. wrote: RAKJ>Most of the gaming I've done has been in all-male groups. That was RAKJ>certainly true with any regular gaming group when I was in junior high. RAKJ>There was one (disastrous) time when I was supposed to DM a *ginormous* RAKJ>group of people through a D&D module, and out of maybe 12 people there was RAKJ>one girl present. The other plaers were monstrous to her, and it really RAKJ>pissed me off. (She ended up leaving in tears.) RAKJ>But that's junior high for you. See now, I didn't actually find a roleplaying group until college, so even when I was the only girl present that was no trouble... heck, I was an engineering major at an engineering (with a side of nursing and law) school, so I was used to being the odd man out. So to speak. RAKJ>As an adult, most of my groups have been all-male, but twice there has been RAKJ>a single female gamer. I was very happy the first time around, because RAKJ>there had been a much more pernicious minority: I was the only cat person, RAKJ>everybody else was a dog person. (In fact, that was true the second time as RAKJ>well.) We're "animal people." One cat, one dog, one cat/ferret hybrid. (Oh, sure, they *say* he's a Dachshund. He's temporary, until Mom gets moved up here.) RAKJ>I wouldn't object to trying a group of gamers where I was the only male RAKJ>amongst a bunch of females. And, if that didn't work out, I wouldn't object RAKJ>to trying it again, becuase it would probably just be a group thing. I RAKJ>suspect that individual variation of people and groups is much larger than RAKJ>any average difference between male and female gamers-- with the one RAKJ>exception that from the reports we hear, there does seem to be a trend of RAKJ>women being treated poorly in games. I've had a minimal amount of it, mostly at conventions and usually quickly dealt with. College experience helped, plus I'm pretty obviously a geek. -- Karen J. Cravens silver@phoenyx.net ---------------------------------------------------------------- GAMERS Home Page: http://www.phoenyx.net/gamers/
