A Chat Between GMs: Part One
Chapter: Comics, Season Five
What a wonderful world it would be if more folks could just live by that credo: I do not see race or gender. I just see gamers.
Just one guys opinion.
More of Sam and Jeanie’s GM chat on Wednesday.
Hover-Text: You know 3 seconds later that bro said “IT’S A TRILBY!” to someone
Its a good ideal to strive for I think.
That said, there’s nothing wrong with a trilby, as long as you’re appropriately dressed. Mine goes with a suit, or at the very least a nice shirt and waistcoat over slacks. Never a tank top. And yeah, announcing what it is to the world is weird and irritating.
the mouse over text is broken. viewing on Google chrome, so I don’t know if that’s it, but it just says “You know 3 seconds later that bro said”
I got the same shortened hovertext in Mozilla Firefox. :/
Ditto for Safari on a Mac.
It’s an unescaped quote issue.
It was! Sorry about that, everyone. It is fixed now.
Fedora, but no neckbeard? How very odd…
IT’S A TRILBY!
This is soooo true
I like my trilby. But I’m not a douchebag. Well, I try not to be. Just don’t judge a person by their hatwear. We can be a completely different type of jerk 😀
*sigh* Yeah, if only the way of the gamer world were as such… granted, I’ve never really had nay problems as all groups I’ve played with have been very good.
Can’t wait to see what games they play with jeannie and how she is “written” in.
Hah! Dungeons and dem titties! Ok the way that guy said is rude but a little teasing between friends and gamers is expected. I havent experienced a lady DM myself and i hope they dont often get that issue with their group.
It might be different if Jeanie actually knew that guy, but saying shit like that to someone you just met is straight up misogyny.
Dang right. Thats a guy you dont want in your game. Seems like the nerd version of a douchebro. My wife and i have, however, throughout the morning laughing and joking about Dungeons nd Dem titties. Hehe
Would it be wrong to stab someone, as long as i hid the body well afterwards? No one makes fun of my friends
I dunno, I think it’s important to see race and gender and just accept it as normal and cool. Granted, I’m speaking from the perspective of a white, male person and I’m not subjected to a whole lot of discrimination but I think if someone told me they didn’t see my race or gender I’d be kinda put out, cuz my race and gender are important parts of me? I really like the intent behind this comic, and maybe I’m missing something vital because I’m not an American and there are such big discrimination issues over there, but just from looking at it I think it leaves a little bit to be said.
tl;dr race and gender are important parts of anyone’s identity and should be seen? Maybe I’m just being pedantic…
You are correct.
Not pedantic at all. This is one of the situations where Jeanie’s idea of a dream player that does not see gender or race stems directly from some of the situations I have been in or heard about directly from friends. You’re right that gender and race are important to who we are as individuals but all too often they can (and are) used as a means of discrimination at the game table. The idea that gender plays any role in how well someone GMs is ridiculous and that is the underlying point here. For Jeanie, the dream player just sees her as a GM and wants to roll dice. I could probably create a series of strips based on this line of conversation but in this case, I did one and hope to get her (my) point across.
She does have a history of dealing with ahole players. An occasional flashback story or pannel about the stuff shes dealt with i look forward to.
Oh, I get it now; I think it was my mistake to ignore the context of Jeanie’s character. Thanks for taking the time to clarify that for me 😛
That smiley was a lot more suggestive than I had anticipated.
HAHA!
Race is NOT an important part of identity – the word you are looking for is “culture”, which have some tendency to break along racial lines for historical racism and modern shakedown/political convenience reasons.
Sex, however, is a vitally important part of identity to the vast majority of the human species, inherently so, really, and while I can understand why people want it to not get in the way in many circumstances, not seeing it at all would be…. well, really weird, frankly.
At least in the US, white males are easily the MOST discriminated-against group there is. It’s not ever considered wrong by a great many people. Heck, 10-20% of the US population is actively proud of it.
Well, by the comments that are approved compared to mine that are not, we can see where the author stands. It’s your place, so I’ll quit commenting.
The other stuff I won’t even try to convince you on, but that last point (about who is discriminated against) is so obvious, I can’t even see how it’s controversial. Which group can be railed against publicly, accused of essentially anything, without any consequences to the one making the claims? Yes, I suppose even noticing that makes me a “typical white person”. Heh, imagine a poltician saying ANYTHING negative about a “typical black person”! Yeah, that’s gonna happen… kinda makes the point.
Anyway, I’ll quit bugging you. Your comic is hilarious and awesome, by the way.
Today I learned what a Trilby was.
As someone who owns several fedoras /and/ a trilby, I really wish we could all move past this fedora-are-a-dbag-hat thing eventually.
Fedora/trilby were my favorite hat (and they are the same hat mostly) for YEARS before the MRA douchebags gave them a bad rep, and I blatantly refuse to stop wearing them out of sheer stubbornness.
🙁
To that I say bravo, Sir. Rock the shit out of it. Despite the joke for jokes sake here, I fully embrace the idea that it’s the person, not their hat that makes them a douchebag.
Wait, what’s MRA? This isn’t something I’ve come across here yet, not in reference to people wearing fedoras/trilbys anyway… MRA to me is the Motorcycle Rider’s Association, a lobby group we have here in Canberra that do some damn fine work.
“Men’s Rights Advocates”, some of whom are as bitter and scary as the feminist misandrist [inappropriate insulting nouns] they rightly mock and criticize.
… I know I’m coming to this comment page late, but Deoxy’s comments… wow. I wish I could say this is the first time I’ve seen someone who lives ENTIRELY inside their own ass, but it’s certainly one of the more impressive cases.
MRAs here stand for Men’s Rights Activists, a bunch of whiny twits who think men are oppressed by the vagina-havers.
I… see… has anyone told them to take a good hard look at reality and then STFU?
You mean the reality where a man has literally no escape from child support payments, even if the mother was convicted of RAPING him to have said child? Even if the woman in question got the sperm from a discarded condom and never slept with the guy? Yes, those are actual cases.
As a bonus, there is ONE exception… a women who has another man’s child while married can get the man she’s married to on the hook for child support for that child. That’s not really an improvement, though… Yes, even with DNA testing to prove it. A few states have finally started changing that recently.
You mean the reality where men make up 99+% of those killed on the job every year?
You mean the reality where alimony laws in several states are literally written to only apply to men paying women, explicitly?
You mean the reality where all the actual data proves that domestic violence is evenly distributed between men and women, but men are the ones targeted by the laws about it? To the point that a man who calls the police for being attacked by his wife can, in some states, be the one who’s arrested, because THAT IS THE LAW?
How about the reality where a man accused of any vaguely sexual crime can expect to lose his job, even when the accusation is proven to be completely false? And don’t get me started on the state of “higher education” – college campuses make “hostile work environment” claims from women look like happy fun things. (Where else can you be told, unequivocally, that you are a rapist, simply on account of your genetics?)
How about the reality where men are the most common victims of every violent crime? Yes, if you include the crimes committed by inmates against other prisoners, that includes rape… which nothing is ever done about.
How about the reality where men are the vast, overwhelming majority of people who are homeless, but the homeless shelters just for women or women and children VASTLY outnumber the shelters just for men, and mixed shelters prioritize women and children over men.
THAT reality? I most certainly recognize that there are some areas where men have some advantages, but there are at least as many where women do, and the law is tilted RIDICULOUSLY in the favor of women, and there are plenty of other areas that are, too.
I’ve taken a good hard look at reality – you should try it some time.
(And now I sound like some raving “MRA”, whom I generally avoid… but someone who thinks reality is so OBVIOUSLY the opposite of what it actually is really irks me.)
I have a fedora I have worn for more than a decade, but I usually only wear it in conjunction with the matching trenchcoat. It’s just such a useful outfit for being out in the rain, and I love never having to use a hand to hold an umbrella.
A trilby is a different matter entirely, as its narrow and practically non-existent brim makes it utterly useless as anything but a fashion statement. Personally, I am of the opinion that headgear should both look good and be functional; a trilby does neither well.
I consider mine pretty functional as well as being a good look, given that I’m entirely completely bald (April Fools jokesters at work changed all the name plates, I’m told the original choice for me was Lex Luthor, but they changed it to Fishbulb at the last minute). So anything that covers my scalp is good to my mind. I wear sunscreen as well, so that takes care of the rest, and I’d be wearing sunscreen no matter what size the brim, so it’s not like that makes a difference to me anyway.
Ok, I’ll concede the point in your case.
Most of the guys I see wearing the things around here have them perched atop a mess of hair so thick that the hat is in danger of falling off if they take a corner too fast. It really looks ridiculous, and it’s not doing them any good.
I scoff at your Trilbys and Fedoras, a gentleman accepts nothing less than a John Bull top hat!
HEAR! HEAR! Top hats forever!
Stovepipe’s where it’s at, man!
Hmmm . . . so the skinny-enough-to-be-a-crack-junkie androgyn with the effeminate tats and piercings makes a suspiciously-specific denial about how sensitive they are.
And the one who actually looks like a geek is forced to utter a lame pickup line to establish his kind as strawman villains.
Yep, certainly no bias in this comic.
I know, right? That second panel is just the biggest red flag ever!