Re: [semi OT] Women wargamers -longish

You wrote: 

>   bearded men (long story).
>have beards.
>(and the beards)

I see a trend here.  Are we suggesting that growing beards is a good 
thing?	Unfortunately, this weekend I'm driving straight to a Con from 
Drill, so this may be difficult.

>to explaining this is that it shouldn't look like a rhino, it should 
look >like a panther (if you're going to catch the average woman's eye) 
- and >that's the animals I'm referring to (I have this funny feeling 
that tanks >or something share these names). Either that or it has to 

Amusingly, the Rhino is a 40K vehicles that is a box-on-treads, and the 
Panther is one of better-looking of the WWII tanks. (Or maybe it's that 
long 75 that makes it attractive).

>c) The shouting. I'm not having a go here (honestly), but a lot of 

Heh.  This is also a pet peeve of mine.  If you can't act like an 
adult, you shouldn't be playing adult games. Kids I'm suckering into a 
_real_ game system I give much more leeway, but adults that want to get 
into a shouting match get shown the door--one advantage of being the 
guy that signs up for the table space and is technically 'running' the 
game (although I usually play rather than umpire).

>d) The "she's just a girl" attitude. Now I know that many guys don't 

Maybe it's just my experience, but when I see a woman on the other side 
of the table I start watching for unconventional stuff that looks at 
first like it's stupid but really is something insidiously effective.  
It's very rare that I run into a woman who's going to be following 
conventional wisdom on tactics.

John M. Atkinson