{"id":221,"date":"2016-12-18T22:05:00","date_gmt":"2016-12-18T22:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briebeau.com\/thoughty\/2016\/12\/18\/what-gender-is-your-gm\/"},"modified":"2021-11-16T00:41:16","modified_gmt":"2021-11-16T05:41:16","slug":"what-gender-is-your-gm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briebeau.com\/thoughty\/2016\/12\/what-gender-is-your-gm\/","title":{"rendered":"What Gender is Your GM?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I did a quick poll today on my G+ (a public post)<\/a> about what gender your GM for your local\/regular group is. The results were… ouch. I posted it around 2:00pm on 12\/18 (today) and this is the current result:<\/p>\n

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I am kind of gobsmacked. I like to think my followers on G+ are pretty diverse, and many of them are! But it unfortunately seems like we still have a lot of men running games in comparison to women. There were a few clarifications in the comments (we have multiple GMs, but most are men, etc.), but for the most part: GMs are more often men. By a lot.<\/p>\n

I will add a picture of the final results to this post after the poll ends (I think tomorrow). I just wanted to share it for awareness. There will be follow up post to this with more questions, and hopefully some ideas from my own perspective about this issue.<\/p>\n

Do you think this is something we should keep working to change? <\/b>

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<\/b>(Note: Some groups like Contessa<\/a> have already been making strides for con games run by women, which is great!)<\/p>\n

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I did a quick poll today on my G+ (a public post) about what gender your GM for your local\/regular group is. The results were… ouch. I posted it around 2:00pm on 12\/18 (today) and this is the current result: I am kind of gobsmacked. I like to think my followers on G+ are pretty … Continue reading “What Gender is Your GM?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[390],"tags":[28,16,10,17,73,8,15,12,33,26,42,18],"class_list":["post-221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive","tag-briecs-on-design","tag-feminism","tag-game-design","tag-gaming","tag-politics","tag-roleplaying-games","tag-rpg","tag-rpgs","tag-social-justice","tag-story-games","tag-tabletop","tag-tabletop-rpgs"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paHOcG-3z","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":56,"url":"https:\/\/briebeau.com\/thoughty\/2018\/08\/five-or-so-questions-on-your-best-game-ever\/","url_meta":{"origin":221,"position":0},"title":"Five or So Questions on Your Best Game Ever","author":"Beau J\u00e1gr Sheldon","date":"August 14, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Hi all, today I have an interview with Monte Cook Games on Your Best Game Ever, a new project on Kickstarter that's brought together a variety of consultants to develop guides for the best tabletop game experience. 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