# Gender, race, and other issues (split off from Doper Demographics thread) **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [September 7, 2022, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gender-race-and-other-issues-split-off-from-doper-demographics-thread/971091 "2022-09-07T00:09:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 39
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2022, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gender-race-and-other-issues-split-off-from-doper-demographics-thread/971091/39 "2022-09-06T18:34:31Z")
You also don’t see the racism being discussed in the thread about Dungeons and Dragons. You seem to struggle to see beyond your limited personal experience and are in fact making my point for me: that the problem here is that it is dominated by old white men who are disinclined to see things from outside their perspective. You also seem to have missed post 6 from this very thread: “ Same age group but am one of the few women. A lot of us have left over the unpoliced misogyny (I left too, but trickled back), and although the policing has improved, the women have not returned, I don’t believe. The board skews heavily white, male, and old.” > [@D & D got woke and that's good because you should have all been playing that way (or not if you didn't prefer))](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/d-d-got-woke-and-thats-good-because-you-should-have-all-been-playing-that-way-or-not-if-you-didnt-prefer/933114/595): > > I haven’t looked much at the 1980s version of Spelljammer (D&D fantasy spacefaring) or at the new version, but that appears to be a member of the Hadozee species. They look very similar to the Yazirians from TSR’s old science fiction game, Star Frontiers (which I have played), and I think are supposed to be a fantasy version of that species. I know nothing about Hadozee culture. In Star Frontiers, the Yazirians were the smartest of the playable sentient alien races. Spelljammer should have left… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gender-race-and-other-issues-split-off-from-doper-demographics-thread/971091)._