Randomly thinking about how S. John Ross, a white cis (and straight, as far as I'm aware) American Gen Xer with enough influence to own a profitable business and notable enough for his own Wikipedia page, when I said that I hate early ttRPG culture for being toxic and dominated by gatekeepey cishet white Western men, called me out for being a, uh, bigot.

You keep using that word. I don't think it means what you think it means.

Not to play the marginalization Bingo, but I'm absolutely gonna play the marginalization Bingo. I'm an Eastern European neurodivergent transgender lesbian woman, unemployed and with a handful of mental illnesses (not that he has any way to know that, but I'm listing things for completeness' sake).

Other than being white and living in the global North, which are both characteristics he shares with me to my knowledge, I don't have much room to build my bigotry on. Especially when calling out behaviour by mostly straight, mostly white, mostly men.

Being an asshole is not the same as being a "bigot". ffs. I'll happily own up to being an asshole.

(the ttRPG culture being almost exclusively a toxic boys' club until at least mid-2000s is true, though. I've been in the trenches. Heck, I've BEEN in the role of the bad guy in that culture.)

The sad thing is I like some things he's made in the past, a lot.

Oh well. I've heard anecdotally that he's apparently, let's say controversial, in general.