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Re: Enforced sexism?
That doesn't really work. It's no fun to walk into your local bar and proclaim, "Boy! I just finished denigrating some inferior invisible female peasants five minutes ago. Now for a relaxing drink as I ignore the beings that actually appear on my screen and keep my mouth shut so the higher level female PCs don't get mad at me." Unless a mud is set up so female characters really can't (or really struggle) to attain power and respect, where women don't receive sword and magic training by virtue of being women, and everybody throughout the hierarchy, from the bar janitor to the king of the world laugh at people who try to roleplay strong-willed, fierce, independent thinking women, it's only a matter of days or weeks before some powerful female PC is leveled up and out there setting the standard. Then, who cares if all of the invisible female peasants are weak? But who wants to play an inferior character in a mud where inferiority is enforced anyway?
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