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Author Topic: Gen Con Announces Badges Can Include Pronouns  (Read 11588 times)

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Gen Con Announces Badges Can Include Pronouns
« on: January 19, 2022, 05:38:53 PM »
Thread closed for comment over on EN World because "obviously" ::) https://www.enworld.org/threads/gen-con-announces-badges-can-include-pronouns.685455/

Options on the badges are:

(blank)
Ask me my pronouns
He/Him
She/Her
They/Them
He/She/They

I would be tempted to opt for 'Ask me my pronouns' and then when asked say fuck/you.

Blazing Saddles had it right - "Badges, we don't need no sticking badges."

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Re: Gen Con Announces Badges Can Include Pronouns
« Reply #1 on: January 19, 2022, 06:22:52 PM »
Woke-Con.

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Re: Gen Con Announces Badges Can Include Pronouns
« Reply #2 on: January 19, 2022, 06:59:35 PM »
How does He/She/They even work grammatically?  Or does that mean I get to pick as the spirit moves me?

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Re: Gen Con Announces Badges Can Include Pronouns
« Reply #3 on: January 19, 2022, 07:06:37 PM »
What if no pronouns are acceptable? Demand to be called by name at all times!

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Re: Gen Con Announces Badges Can Include Pronouns
« Reply #4 on: January 19, 2022, 07:12:04 PM »
What? There's no option for "it"?

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Re: Gen Con Announces Badges Can Include Pronouns
« Reply #5 on: January 19, 2022, 07:18:53 PM »
What about adjectives?

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Re: Gen Con Announces Badges Can Include Pronouns
« Reply #6 on: January 19, 2022, 07:27:40 PM »
Options on the badges are:

(blank)
Ask me my pronouns
He/Him
She/Her
They/Them
He/She/They
Wait, how does that last one work?
He needs a d6.
Okay, give the d6 to she!
Now it's they d6?


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Re: Gen Con Announces Badges Can Include Pronouns
« Reply #7 on: January 19, 2022, 07:28:11 PM »
Good grief...  do they even play games there or is it all about how much virtue they all signal?

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Re: Gen Con Announces Badges Can Include Pronouns
« Reply #8 on: January 19, 2022, 08:33:05 PM »
Wait, how does that last one work?
He needs a d6.
Okay, give the d6 to she!
Now it's they d6?
Oh, no make that your pronouns. My pronouns are d8/d6.
If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest person, I will find something in them to be offended.

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Re: Gen Con Announces Badges Can Include Pronouns
« Reply #9 on: January 19, 2022, 08:39:44 PM »
This is why I don’t have pronouns. I hate pronouns.

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Re: Gen Con Announces Badges Can Include Pronouns
« Reply #10 on: January 19, 2022, 08:43:54 PM »
eh, it was....inevitable.
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Re: Gen Con Announces Badges Can Include Pronouns
« Reply #11 on: January 19, 2022, 09:20:20 PM »
Surely your name badge can include whatever you like? If you want to call yourself Pilot Pirx or Sir Lancelot or She/Her Bob or whatever, that's entirely up to you. It is after all a roleplaying game convention.
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Re: Gen Con Announces Badges Can Include Pronouns
« Reply #12 on: January 19, 2022, 10:29:19 PM »
Surely your name badge can include whatever you like? If you want to call yourself Pilot Pirx or Sir Lancelot or She/Her Bob or whatever, that's entirely up to you. It is after all a roleplaying game convention.

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Re: Gen Con Announces Badges Can Include Pronouns
« Reply #13 on: January 19, 2022, 11:23:12 PM »
Thread closed for comment over on EN World because "obviously" ::) https://www.enworld.org/threads/gen-con-announces-badges-can-include-pronouns.685455/

Options on the badges are:

(blank)
Ask me my pronouns
He/Him
She/Her
They/Them
He/She/They

I would be tempted to opt for 'Ask me my pronouns' and then when asked say fuck/you.

Blazing Saddles had it right - "Badges, we don't need no sticking badges."


Mine would read, "Your Royal Highness".  Either that, or "Dirk Diggler".
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Re: Gen Con Announces Badges Can Include Pronouns
« Reply #14 on: January 20, 2022, 12:05:32 AM »
Surely your name badge can include whatever you like? If you want to call yourself Pilot Pirx or Sir Lancelot or She/Her Bob or whatever, that's entirely up to you. It is after all a roleplaying game convention.

What if I want to identify as the Kosmokrator?  8)