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Patriarchal Misogyny: Men and Women are fundamentally different for reasons beyond one's control, and given this, each end of this strict binary are and should remain beholden to different and distinct presentations and expectations. The two are and should remain physically and socially distinct and defined despite natural expressions which indicate this is an artificial standard imposed by society. Obviously men are just naturally suited to being good leaders and women are naturally suited to be subservient caregivers. At the end of the day, it is every man's responsibility to be a good and fair caretaker to women. This is a traditional position passed down by my noble ancestors and is as such an honorable and chivalrous stance.

Progressive Feminism: Men and Women are two ends of a human spectrum but are not fundamentally different as people. We share the same potential, the same depth, the same capacity for good and evil and kindness and caring and cruelty, with broad enough overlap in physical structure and ability that dividing the two into a strict and disparate binary in all physical arenas makes very little sense. Obviously men and women are raised with seperate roles in our patriarchal society, and men at large are statistically more likely to be aggressive and women are statistically more likely to be the victim of violent and sexual crimes, but this does not reflect a strict rule that can be applied to each individual one encounters nor an immutable fact of character. At the end of the day, each individual has the capacity and responsibility to be a good and fair person. This is a movement which was developed by an oppressed class to obtain normal and unexceptional human rights already afforded to half of our existing society and is therefore a reasonable stance.

Radical Feminism: Men and Women are fundamentally different for reasons beyond one's control, and given this, each end of this strict binary are programmed to think and perform to different and distinct presentations and expectations. The two are physically and socially distinct and defined despite natural expressions which indicate this is an artificial standard imposed by society. Obviously men are wholesale trained and socialized from birth to oppress and prey on women, so it is safe to assume that and transgression is either malicious or an inescapable truth of man's nature. At the end of the day, men as a whole area statistically more likely than women to be physically or sexually violent, and so each individual man is individually more violent or sexually aggressive than any given woman. The definition for "man" and "woman" in this case includes Trans Men and is therefore a ~progressive~ stance.

(With respect to this post there.)

I won't say it's universally the case, but there's definitely a small but highly vocal subset of the tabletop-RPGs-as-storygames fandom who want their games to feature conventional character arcs and well formed three-act structures and themes with clear through-lines and such, but have a positive horror of accepting any constraints at all on their own creative freedom, often due to some latent paranoia that the GM is secretly trying to railroad them. You can sometimes slip player scripts under the radar via frameworks where players are expected to take up existing pregenerated characters (e.g., as seen in certain supernatural slice-of-life games like Chuubo's Marvelous Wish-Granting Engine or Yazeba's Bed and Breakfast), but in my experience, players in this particular slice of the storygame fandom are liable to refuse to play pregens in the first place.

I DID refer to OOP as "this ho", but I don't gender-check each and every individual I reblog from, and the implication that you *do* is giving radfem

Like, if the goal of play is to produce a story, then the act of play must be identical with the act of telling a story, right? Except that's not how most stories we actually tell work. How most stories we actually tell work is a bunch of Weird Shit happens, then we make up an explanatory narrative to help us make sense of it.

In the overwhelming majority of conventional tabletop RPGs, the act of play is not identical with telling the story. The act of play is identical with experiencing the Weird Shit. The rules are a Rube Goldberg machine which outputs the materials of which stories are made, and if they're competently structured, all you need to do is turn the crank.

Kris

Bearer of the curse (you)

Pronouns have more footnotes than a fucking milipede

Knows how to play the piano

Despite openly rebelling against the player, people still think they're an audience self-insert

Master of maladaptive daydreaming

Suzie

Eats chalk

Violence is a question and the answer is yes

Former bully

Birdley

One bad day away from falling down a pipeline

Noelle

Lesbian with snow powers who will drown you

You deserve it cause you pushed her to commit so many murders

Ralsei

May or may not be some manifestation of Kris' longing to reunite with their brother

Mostly at the centre of debates on if he's trans or not

Hates the Flower Man

Spamton

He's a [BIG SHOT] who has glimpsed [SPECTACULAR] revelations of the world beyond the walls

Asgore

Divorced alcoholic who hit Noelle's sister with his bergentruck

May be fucking a flower

Queenie

The median Tumblr user circa 2015

The best character in her chapter

Flower Man

Is 10'20"

His heart is in the sand

Is the flower Asgore may be fucking

May have caused 9/11

Sans

May or may not remember the events of Undertale

May or may not be fucking Toriel

The Heart

Bandersnatch 2: Delta Boogaloo

From any other characters perspective, your presence would make this a horror story

Wants to kill Sans for fucking your mom