You’d be surprised at how many Barthilas bloggers there are – we’re up to 3 that I know of: Unreal Realities, me & Lath, and one of our guildies just started her own blog, too:

http://unrealrealities.com/
http://projectui.wordpress.com/

This incident was really the first time I’d come across blatant sexism in a guild, I’d always been in guilds with a strong female Officer or GM. But once your eyes are opened, you see the sexist crap everywhere.

Some of these guilds genuinely believed that penis = superior gaming skill, while other long-standing guilds simply had female drama in the past that they were over, one of which had a female officer who was a very good player that everyone respected! I eventually got into that guild as they were desperate for a good player of my class but that female officer wouldn’t really speak to me, I wasn’t sure what her problem was =[.

Then that guild died, I joined Drama, then got a job and had to raid Oceanic times and so my Australian friend who joined Schism convinced me to join also (this is late Sunwell at this point). For the first month I was pretty much silent and people thought I was a strange dude, then when I finally "came out of the closet" I was amazed and relieved that nobody cared what gender I was, I think it may be the cultural difference between servers, I found US server to be extremely different in nature to this Oceanic server (I could be wrong, it may just vary from server to server).

Anyways I'm ranting, I was surprised to find a blog from people from Barthilas,
/wave See you ingame maybe =]

- Rayelle

Sexism in this form isn’t about political correctness.

First of all, I’m not defending sexism. But I’m not really defending political correctness either. I believe it is most important to treat other human beings like you would yourself like to be treated. But I also believe, with too much PC we will slip into a boring, very uniform world.

First of all, sexism is a very strange phenomenon:

It’s very one sided. Sexist comments against women will always lead to a cry of outrage, sexism against men is very present, but won’t raise any eyebrows.

Sexism has many roots, but most of the time, it is just here because men and women are different. Let’s take for example racism, racism has always ugly roots: prejudices, fear (in times of high economical pressure) and of course the worst: historical roots where racism was a tool for profit, expanding a country and exploiting people. Sexism of course also has bad roots, e.g. monopolizing of well paid jobs for male workers. But a lot of sexism just comes out of daily life. I have a girlfriend, and I sure might some of her bad attributes correlate with her gender. I’m sure many of us do that, be it conscious or unconscious. This is is also a reason, why racism will always lead to a negative response from all mental sane persons, but sexist comments will from time to time lead to a mixed response, some people angry, some will chuckle.

People care about sexism in extremely different degrees. Lets take my girlfriend for example. She’s really the very opposite of political correct. When we named our bank guilds, she picked “sapped girls cant say no” the first time, then “me so hordey” after the first guild got banned. But is she sexist or tolerating sexism? I’m pretty sure she’d raise her voice against any form of ugly sexism, but she also likes to annoy people, including political correct females. On the other hand, there are tons of organizations who fight against sexism in an close to bizarre way. Universities are still packed with organizations, fighting for a non sexist university, while in fact the biggest part in the university I’m in is in female hands, most students are female and most female students do significantly better than their male fellow students. On my university for example, our e-mails ended on @student.unibe. ch. “Student” could be the English word for student but also the german word for male student, while “Studentin” would be the female student. A handful of people thought this sexist, so the e-mail was changed to @students.unibe.ch, something that cost a lot of money and all in all was a huge annoyance for every student with an e-mail account.

My comment is not really related to the post to be honest. It’s just a call for a differentiated view on sexism and political correctness, which I very often miss.
.-= drug’s last blog … Quo Vadis Blizzard? =-.

I don’t blame you one bit for not wanting to group with or heal him. Swiftmend if absolutely necessary, but I would certainly not be above telling him to have a male healer heal him.
.-= Rahima’s last blog … Brewmaster Rahima =-.

You should refer that guildy to join the “premier ally guild” on thaurissan. and by “premier ally guild” I mean giant bunch of wankers. He would fit in well

He would already know how they respond to application threads. Checkout the forums on http://www.notsteamboat.com. They take petty to a whole new level

From my old application to them… the toon I used to apply was not my main at the time, and it was a bit silly and a bit of a test from me to see what they made of a fairly fresh 80 looking for join.
The toon’s level of gearing seemed to have nothing to do with why I would not get an invite to the guild it seems…

“Also, for those who read this, if your NSB website name differs from your applying toon’s name, it shows you don’t respect order, which likely means we don’t want you. And if it’s something as terrible as UncySpam (wtf is that anyway), it tells us pretty much all we need to know.”
.-= UncySpam’s last blog … Locked On: OS25 + 0 =-.