Space·Time Will Tell @Yoric@tabletop.social

You may have heard that #Microsoft is officially switching to a #browser based on #Google's #Chromium.

This means that, within a few months, for most users, Google will be in a position where they can decide what you can see on the web, how you can pay, and on which devices. Also, they already know who you are.

#Firefox is now the last browser standing attempting to prevent this #monopoly. Please try it. Please help your friends and family and coworkers try it.

Please Boost.

By the way, always #lookingforplayers in or around #Paris, #France :)

Will role-play/GM in French or English.

Time for an #introduction. Hi, I'm a guy/he from France. As a hobby, I'm
a Role-player (mostly GM), Storyteller, Improv actor. Also, GM-ing for children.

I'm quite on the narrative side.

I have recently published my first DriveThruRPG product and I'm working on two more. More self-promotion later :)

Couldn't sleep last night... but I ended up with a surprisingly workable idea for a (mostly?) collaborative board game.

Pitch: A group of archaeologists attempts to dig out and repair an aqueduct bringing water through the desert and towards a water-powered pyramid door.

You need water to quench your thirst and to open the door towards the treasures, and you depend on everybody upstream to bring the water to you.

To be continued.

Ok, end of rant.

Please be gentle :)

...which – spoiler alert – is equally BS.

Maybe we should work on that?

What if, instead of covering female heroes under an artificial set of clichés that matches neither men nor women, we could work towards dropping BS gender stereotypes altogether?

3/ All of a sudden, Hollywood has shifted towards telling viewers that women have become invincible macho machines. Nobody is going to buy that because – guess what – women are not invincible macho machines. I suspect that this is one (small) part of the resentment of Angry Cishet White Men.

Now, maybe the problem is that men-of-the-correct-origins have been told repeatedly that they are invincible macho machines...

2/ I didn't keep notes, but I have seen a number of times these Macho Women with Guns being touted as "positive role models" for women/young girls.

Why should women trade one toxic role model/ghetto (Princess Peach) for another one (Resident Evil's Alice)?

So...

1/ As a feminist myself, let me tell you, that’s not feminism or gender equality.

What's the best word for this? Feminisploitation?

A large part of my problem is that I find Macho Man with Gun (or katana, or superpowers – emphasis is on “Macho”) a pretty toxic role, and I feel that now that female action heroes are finally allowed to leave the hapless-Princess-for-rescue Ghetto, they are being corralled into the Macho x with Guns Ghetto.

Which is pretty much where male African American action heroes have been trapped for the last 60 years.

I think that I'm slowly putting words on what irks me with recent trends in Hollywood and Video Games "positive model" female heroes.

Still trying to find a good formulation, so if you disagree with me, please be gentle and give me some benefit of doubt :)

As a feminist guy myself, I believe that there's *some* improvement from Snow White's helpless china doll to, say, Underworld's vampiric killing machine Selene.

However, I'm pretty disappointed.

I have in mind the early idea of boardgame about babies vs. parents. The parents need to juggle between taking care of the babies and other tasks, while the babies try to drive their parents to nervous breakdown first.

I'll see where this leads me :)

I just realized that it should be possible to use Blades in the Dark/Forged in the Dark for a pretty good X-Men-themed game.

Out of curiosity, anybody else from around Paris, France?