Did Pundit really just say he had trans characters before they were cool? LOL
When I was a teenager, we nerds were nerds. Didn't matter if they were black, white, latino, Indian or whatever. Nerd superseded all else. I think we were the most color blind people on Earth at the time.
I keep thinking as these threads pop up time and time again that we ended up with all this venom in our hobby precisely because we're such a welcoming kind of people, on the whole. I don't often agree with everything Pundit says, but this is one time I think he nails it right and squarely on the head.
Edit: Ironically, the only gay people I ever knew back then were far "too cool" to associate with our "Nerd Herd". So, no, they didn't play our games. They apparently had better things to do.