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And yep, I was exactly right for his motivations. The current Senior Designer and Project Lead for Dungeons and Dragons gave the most lukewarm criticism of the racism in the earliest versions of D&D, and Elon Musk threw a fit over it.

This man is so easily offended, it's ridiculous. This is what happens when you grow up the son of an emerald mine owner in apartheid South Africa and attend private schools that only allow white boys to attend.

I don't mean different games with the same vibes, I mean exact or slightly altered versions of older editions (and even 5E if what I know about some games is correct).

And yes, a lot of them fix racism one way or another.

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Now, fun games:

Go on the goodreads page of that book written by a bi woman where the main character starts out as a lesbian and ends up with a guy, filter for 5 star reviews (most of them written by bi women) and search for the word “fluid”. In the first 2 pages of reviews (and not counting the book’s blurb about ~the fluidity of love), I found 15 different people using the “sexuality is fluid” argument (usually in all caps) to defend the book. That’s why I called it a conversion therapy propaganda book.

Read the document written by the conversion therapists and notice the arguments that sound absolutely identical to what trans & bi women tell lesbians on a daily basis.

I’ll get you started: “The [term sexual fluidity exploration] accurately conveys that the therapist is not being coercive but merely assisting individuals in a client-centered examination of their sexual attractions.” (“Nobody’s forcing you to date transwomen, we’re just asking you to examine…”)

What they have to say about category change is also interesting: talking about sexual fluidity exploration rather than conversion therapy is better because it “does not imply that categorical change is the goal […] nor does it imply that change which is less than categorical in nature cannot be meaningful and satisfying to clients”. Which is exactly the way that bi woman who defended the book yesterday argued - the lesbian character does not become straight, therefore it’s not conversion therapy. Their rebranding efforts are really successful. Although mostly with people who were eager to support them in the first place.

And of course when they say “Scientifically, the fluidity of sexual orientation (and, for our purposes, especially same-sex attractions) for many women and men is now beyond question”, they quote Lisa Diamond to support their claim. Diamond, whose study shows that lesbian sexuality is not fluid at all. In fact the main thing her study shows is that bi women love to call themselves lesbians (”Other women with nonexclusive attractions would routinely change their identity labels in accordance with their current romantic partner or social network. If they were seriously involved with a woman, they identified as lesbian. If they were seriously involved with a man, they identified as bisexual or heterosexual, all the while acknowledging that they remained attracted to both sexes.”) and that it’s incredibly harmful to actual lesbians because bi women’s lies about their orientation will then be happily quoted by conversion therapists to convince their lesbian patients that they too can and should learn to love dick.

Now, fun games:

Go on the goodreads page of that book written by a bi woman where the main character starts out as a lesbian and ends up with a guy, filter for 5 star reviews (most of them written by bi women) and search for the word “fluid”. In the first 2 pages of reviews (and not counting the book’s blurb about ~the fluidity of love), I found 15 different people using the “sexuality is fluid” argument (usually in all caps) to defend the book. That’s why I called it a conversion therapy propaganda book.

Read the document written by the conversion therapists and notice the arguments that sound absolutely identical to what trans & bi women tell lesbians on a daily basis.

I’ll get you started: “The [term sexual fluidity exploration] accurately conveys that the therapist is not being coercive but merely assisting individuals in a client-centered examination of their sexual attractions.” (“Nobody’s forcing you to date transwomen, we’re just asking you to examine…”)

What they have to say about category change is also interesting: talking about sexual fluidity exploration rather than conversion therapy is better because it “does not imply that categorical change is the goal […] nor does it imply that change which is less than categorical in nature cannot be meaningful and satisfying to clients”. Which is exactly the way that bi woman who defended the book yesterday argued - the lesbian character does not become straight, therefore it’s not conversion therapy. Their rebranding efforts are really successful. Although mostly with people who were eager to support them in the first place.

And of course when they say “Scientifically, the fluidity of sexual orientation (and, for our purposes, especially same-sex attractions) for many women and men is now beyond question”, they quote Lisa Diamond to support their claim. Diamond, whose study shows that lesbian sexuality is not fluid at all. In fact the main thing her study shows is that bi women love to call themselves lesbians (”Other women with nonexclusive attractions would routinely change their identity labels in accordance with their current romantic partner or social network. If they were seriously involved with a woman, they identified as lesbian. If they were seriously involved with a man, they identified as bisexual or heterosexual, all the while acknowledging that they remained attracted to both sexes.”) and that it’s incredibly harmful to actual lesbians because bi women’s lies about their orientation will then be happily quoted by conversion therapists to convince their lesbian patients that they too can and should learn to love dick.