Message no. 1

From:	Phil Levis <pal@**.BROWN.EDU>
Subject:	Player Gender Balances (was: Sex and the Single Shadowrunner)
Date:	Wed, 6 May 1998 18:15:54 -0400

> At 01:59 PM 5/6/98 -0700, you wrote:
>
>I do see what you are saying though about females not getting into
>roleplaying and the sort...Alot of girls just aren't into it. But on
>the other hand I've always been a tomboy with my head in the clouds,
>nose in a book, hating most of my classmates (almost completely
>opposite of my best friend Jackie). I've mentioned RPGing to some gals
>here in college and they were like what's that? So I guess I really
>can see what you mean.

Interestingly enough, the group of people that I tend to roleplay with
breaks pretty evenly along gender lines. Of the 30 or so people, about
forty percent are female, and sixty percent male. A year or so ago, and
there were more women than men.

Admittedly, a greater percentage of the people who run games are
male. There are currently about nine tabletop games, and one LARP running;
six of the tabletop games are run by men, and both head GMs of the LARP
are male.

Phil