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March 30, 2005

It Had to Happen: The Blogosphere Subject to Diversity-Mongering

Snark and links from SondraK.

Graphic Stupidity Warning: Contains a blind link to Arianna Huffington.

For the love of everything holy-- sure, near-perfect diversity would be nice, but blogging is not a job (unfortunately... if it were, I'd already be competing with that pederast Hannoran for a VP slot).

There are zero entry barriers. Anyone can blog. Anyone can get big (well, admittedly, that's sort of tough, but there's no glass ceiling or anything; it's a function of how much time you have to waste on this nonsense, how long you've been blogging, and, well, how interesting you are).

I have to admit, I am considering doing my part to help the diversity-thingee, and I'm thinking about bringing in an all-star female team of guest bloggers to blog here for a week. Seven of them, I think-- mainly because I still have masturbatory fantasies about BJ and the Seven Lady Truckers, and I think it would be cool to play the role of Greg Evigan, drifting in and out to help the guest-blogging ladies shut down an interstate white-slavery ring and stuff.

But be that as it may-- what's next? A campaign to insure that Dungeons & Dragons games are not only "balanced" in terms of characters (fighter, mage, cleric, thief) but also in terms of having enough women and minority players?

It's hard to get women to play D&D. Believe me, I've tried. Plus, they're not any damn good at it. They just want to spend all day at the Armorer's and Magic Shoppe, shopping and looking for bargains. You just can't get to the dungeon without six hours of looking for the perfect-cute sexy-but-not-slutty pair of Boots of Levitation.

posted by Ace at 01:39 PM

Comments

One can imagine something like a federal Digital Diversity Agency that would assign a diversity tattoo to each blog: a lavender pig, for example, signifying a white male blogger with an alternative sexual orientation. (Not that there's anything wrong with that).

Whew! Sondra, Sondra, Sondra you forgot your Official (Not that there's anything wrong with that) - Gay Disclaimer so I inserted it for you so you would't run afoul of the Digital Diversity Agency.

Loose Shit!

Posted by: 72VIRGINS on March 30, 2005 02:01 PM

OT, but there's and easy $100,000.00 to be made if you're a neurologist, even more if you're also a bioethicist. Just think how diverse you could get with that kind of coin. (h/t Michelle Malkin and Codeblueblog)

Posted by: OCBill on March 30, 2005 02:03 PM

"It's hard to get women to play D&D."

Uh, Ace, it's hard to get men to play D & D.

(Ducking away quickly, hoping not to get banned)

Posted by: JFH on March 30, 2005 02:05 PM

JFH,

Point taken.

Posted by: ace on March 30, 2005 02:07 PM

Of all the things you might try to get a female to do...

Posted by: lauraw on March 30, 2005 02:08 PM

Increasing your character's powe is the ultimate aphrodisiac, Laura.

Posted by: ace on March 30, 2005 02:10 PM

Increasing your character's power is the ultimate aphrodisiac, Laura.

Posted by: ace on March 30, 2005 02:10 PM

Ace,

I don't get it. Thanks to the EEOC, I am a recently self-identified American-Indian. Follow Churchill's lead and we can single handedly eliminate the diversity problem on the web.

Posted by: Max Power on March 30, 2005 02:12 PM

Unbelievably stupid. In the blogosphere no one knows that you're an elderly obese disabled bisexual black Jewish midget.

I mean, you are, right Ace? Cause that's what I've been picturing.

Posted by: someone on March 30, 2005 02:38 PM

someone,

you left off "with a Hispanic surname".

Posted by: OCBill on March 30, 2005 02:52 PM

Spades is hispanic?

Posted by: nood on March 30, 2005 03:15 PM

Nood,

Yep..he pronounces it "Spah-dez".

Posted by: Jack M. on March 30, 2005 03:32 PM

This summer I'm going to do my part for blogosphere diversity by getting a really good tan.

Posted by: Jim Treacher on March 30, 2005 03:51 PM

It's hard to get women to play D&D. Believe me, I've tried. Plus, they're not any damn good at it.

Hah! Not my wife. She games every other Saturday night at her girlfriends' house. And I kid her (but good! ) "Who's the nerd now," I say to her every time she comes home... at four A.M.... hair dischevled.. lipstick askew..

Sheesh what a geek.

Posted by: Kadnine on March 30, 2005 04:01 PM

Ahem. Ace, back when I actually lived in San Francisco, I played all the time. And no character of mine ever wasted time shopping for anything but heavier weaponry.

And, in the case of my favorite insane character, small tin horns, but that's a very long and silly story.

Posted by: Dianna on March 30, 2005 04:07 PM

Does this armor make my ass look big?

Posted by: lauraw on March 30, 2005 05:39 PM