The TGOO Crowd Handwringing Over Sexism..Or Flirting?

Wow. So I go to BGG to check the IOS news thread, and as I scroll down I see this:


I love that JJ is the author of one, that existential bastard. Anyhow, there's been a BUNCH of "women: what do you like to play?" and whatnot of late...wonder what's going on? Are the Boys From Boardzil starting to realize that there are people of the opposite sex out there, above the basement door? Have years of 'practicing their moves' on porn sites finally readied them for sex...WITH AN ACTUAL GIRL?

Glad they're starting to recognize their legion of faults in regard to the denigration of women in gaming, but the sudden onslaught of handwringing is interesting.

What it the RIGHT ROYAL FUCK is this world coming too? Jesus H. Christ on a tricycle.

I don't know if I want to live in a world where our very own JonJacob can't get a single fucking thumb!

It's wrong people...it's WRONG!

Internet outrage! Better fund a kickstarter to fund a rich white girl get into gaming! It's the only solution for it!

By the way, don't you guys think too much about BGG? Don't you have dice to roll or something?

Holy Jesus, Erik...

You say it as a joke but I bet you'd get over 100k funding if she were pretty.

Since we're beyond 1 April, I'll assume this is real. Bad on me if it's not. How the hell do you have your front page set-up that the Low Countries sub-forums even come up? I didn't even know there WERE forums for Belgium and the Netherlands and they show up on your front page.

And, uh, is that really Mayday Seth who started the top thread?

I'm just trying to figure out if "flipper type spinning boardgame" is a euphemism for something.

repoman wrote: You say it as a joke but I bet you'd get over 100k funding if she were pretty.

Joke? Who said anything about a joke?


www.kickstarter.com/projects/susanwilson...prove-her-brothers-w

An explanation:
www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=528903&page=55

One of the most powerful women in the world asks for 800$ to send her daughter to "RPG camp" which will help women in STEM. It doesn't matter how obviously stupid this is or how the woman is known for cybersquatting, getting funds under the banner of Occupy Wall Street and deriding poor people as "deadbeats", if you oppose this you are a sexist pig.

Oh, by the way, Kickstarter is on record backing this, which breaks practically every rule they have, just if you thought they were nice guys who wouldn't fuck you off when money or PR is on the line.

Erik Twice wrote: ...just if you thought they were nice guys who wouldn't fuck you off when money or PR is on the line.

Isn't that simply the common working definition of "capitalism"? (I'm still shocked that Sag's prediction that Kickstarter would be bought by a behemoth like MicroEbaySkypeSoft hasn't come to pass as of yet. I would have thought Amazon would have made a play for it just so they could double-dip on the fees.)

It is, but it seems many think it doesn't apply to Kickstarter.

200K if she was an abject visual abomination and wanted money for a makeover, a home gym, and counselling so she could play Catan without crying on the components because players continually ignore her pleas for wood.

PS/Edit: It's not "how I have my front page set up", it's the default. I have no BGG account (I might've mentioned that) so this is just what popped up.

Pete, BGG is like your Brokeback Mountain. "I just can't quit you."

OK I hope I'm in the right place but I've been looking at all these threads and which one do you think my girlfriend/wife/friendzoned-but-hopeful will like?

Shellhead: My fun with BGG is long gone. I went there to check the IOS board game news, no more, no less. I just happened to see the "Women: I have no idea how to talk to my girlfriend" threads and then when I scrolled down I saw more of them.

Guilty. I posted a couple of things in the walk the plank thread and I was pretty sure they're definitions were all fucked up. Then I started a new thread to say why and people were being assholes. So I deleted almost all of it and took off.

I shouldn't have bothered.

Then I came home all sick as a dog and now I see you've caught me. Fuckers!

I am convinced that they have a flag on the admin side of BGG that they can enable to bury threads or make it so they won't show up on the front page.

I've had mine, some "hot" with furious back-and-forths, disappear off of the front page with no reasoning behind it. I think old Octavian read this and buried all the "Women: I so wish I could touch one, just once" threads.