This is your periodic reminder that Gary Gygax was a sexist garbage fire of a man, even for the 1980s.
this post was submitted on 29 Oct 2025
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Damn you autocorrect! (For posterity, it said “sexiest”)
Stupid sexy Gygax
Hey now, let's not reduce him to his being a self-proclaimed "biological determinist" on gender.
He also quoted/referenced racists for his stances. (E.g. "Nits make lice" from Chivington, who killed Cheyenne people indiscriminately, gygaxed as a justification for why its lawfully good to kill orc babies https://www.reddit.com/r/DnD/comments/dtpgim/gygax_on_lawful_good/ )
a justification for why its lawfully good to kill orc babies
It's fantasy ethics, you can make up whatever you w...
"Nits make lice" from Chivington,
Except for that one
Link?
It’s not exactly a secret. The man was openly and proudly sexist until the day he died.
I’m sure you can figure it out.
Ok then.
Huh. Well, “Women can play D&D just as well, they just don’t like it as much. I don’t know how it could be made to appeal to women such that they would” is, technically sexist.
But considering the huge amount of spewed garbage we see daily from people in power, this seems like . . . I mean, I was expecting something crass or really vicious or something.
Also TIL Lionel made pastel trains to appeal to girls. 🤷♂️
We do not stand for Neelix hate in this household
That man is a treasure!!
Janeway was keeping track of her torpedoes about as well as most tabletop players keep track of their arrows and food reserves.
To be fair, 80% of the campaign consisted of the GM going "yeah, that sounds cool, let's go with it". When the players noticed, they took it to the extreme and described how they one-shotted the Borg Collective and insta-ported themselves back home. And got away with it.
Janeway keeping track of her torpedoes about as well as most tabletop players keep track of how many times I tell them to stay off their phones during the game...and to not metagame...
Ow, get out of my shame spiral.
Idk. I give the cook points for bagging the cute alien with short hair. (Im drawing a complete blank on her name)
Kes
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