It dawned on me this morning walking the dogs that my game, Cha'alt, especially the way I run it, would be outright banned if the feminists and beta-male cucks behind wokeness could actually do that.
You'll never see anything resembling the Cha'alt experience promoted by big or even moderately-sized TTRPG companies. You won't find it pushed-up in the algorithm, even if such a thing exists on YouTube or podcastistan. Books, supplements, conventions, and even forums and blog posts seem to be actively de-platforming, de-monetizing, and de-legitimizing my preferred style of gaming - by men, for men.
In fact, I wasn't allowed to volunteer my services as Game Master to a local TTRPG club because of my recent pushback against feminism in the hobby (right this way). That's because the radical-left gatekeeps.
Most "normal" gamers fall into two groups - those who aren't explicitly feminist but go along, not wanting to rock the female-centric boat that currently dominates TTRPGs, and those realizing that we should gatekeep, that we should have been gatekeeping all these years in an attempt to prevent tourists, activists, and misandrists (if you're not familiar with that word, it's like misogynists, but against men rather than women) from colonizing our hobby and destroying its essence so the shell, of whatever is left, closer resembles the feminist worldview and perspective.
Everywhere I turn, TTRPG culture has been sanitized, censored, and feminized to the point where it's unrecognizable from its glorious origins. What's even sadder, it's been happening for so long it's become institutionalized. Many young gamers don't even realize that fantasy roleplaying emerged from sword & sorcery fiction, history, and war... all within the masculine paradigm.
Rather than just warn everyone what's happened or, even worse, bitching and complaining about it, I propose one possible solution out of many... run your games liberated from feminist, woke, corporate propaganda slop.
Utilize that masculine paradigm to its fullest extent. Here are a few ways to de-feminize your game...
Male-Gaze: I encourage you to describe the world through a man's perspective. Yes, he's going to notice danger first, but then let's see those heaving bosoms beneath straining corsets, her shapely butt when she bends over, women smiling, being feminine, looking beautiful, etc. Not independent girl-bosses screeching about how oppressed they are.
Power Fantasy: Marco Rubio just gave a speech about the ancient Greeks pursuing excellence here. Would you like to explore new lands, conquer them, crush your enemies, take their stuff, seduce the barmaid, defend the realm, vanquish evil, protect that which needs saving, get laid, become more powerful in order to take on even more formidable foes, hear your reputation growing, experience the glory of your adventuring, and accumulate treasure!?!
Realism: You must struggle to survive, life isn't fair, things don't always work out, a good compromise means neither side is totally happy, weak men create hard times, fuck around / find out, an honest man's common sense is more valuable than all the Kingdom's experts, and "progressive" liberalism either has to eventually return to its traditional roots or become a Kafkaesque totalitarian hellhole.
Humor: The woke scolds, by and large, are humorless cry-bullies who find jokes offensive... unless they're in political alignment. Include more humor, whatever you and your players think is funny. Nothing points out that the Emperor has no clothes like a cutting bit of satire. Rather than bending the knee to a faceless bureaucracy, ridicule them mercilessly!
Gross, Disgusting, and Weird: There's something about blood, gore, diarrhea, Kuato from Total Recall, slimy tentacles, eldritch-green ooze that squishes down lightless corridors, and haunted demon-vomit (yeah, I just made that one up) that guys get a kick out of. It's compelling, sometimes nauseating, and gives our made-up fantasy a texture of reality that men find amusing and immersive.
If you want to de-feminize your gaming, this is the way. Try to incorporate some of these, if not all, in your next session and see how you like it. Want more? Do more! Become more!!! Make it visceral... where you can really feel it, in the moment, here and now - away from the numbers and game mechanics.
It's your game; make yourself happy. Don't worry about being canceled in your own game. Blog about your sessions without fear of woke reprisal. I have your back, and so do thousands of other gamers, as well; even if most of them are silent right now [Venger gives the Samuel L Jackson stare].
The time for quiet reflection is long gone, now is the time for action. Run your own forbidden game - make it happen, hoss!
Enjoy,
VS
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