@Arkandel said in MUers in the news?:
For example: If you run an Anne Rice MUSH and you choose that in your setting, due to supernatural reasons, vampires can't have sex ("it won't go up, Cap'n!") then I can't play my vampire gettin' it up anyway. If I did so it'd go against a hard rule (sorry...) that makes no sense to violate. So staff would be justified in telling me that no, I can't do that in RP - there are physical limitations of the universe involved that my character can't supersede.
While I am sure that the impotent have been derided in history, I think that this is far a-field of what we have been trying to express.
To answer the question posed before about what is wrong about wanting to run a game that is monoethnic, I say that we have a word for people taking steps to create a word that is monoethnic, fantastic or not. That word is "racist." Were someone to want to create a fantasy world where adults engaged in sexual relationships with children under the age of 13, we would have another word for it. While I am sure some will think it unfair to liken a person who invents a fantasy setting that is monoethnic to a person that takes real-life steps towards creating a monoethnic culture, the word itself -- "racist" -- is apt and accurate, just as it is apt and accurate to call a choice "racist" while simultaneously pointing out that the person making such choice may not be so.
So, I'll say my piece: creating and enforcing a monoethnic game are racist choices. To me, it's that simple. If you want to avoid that particular reputation, choose otherwise, but people in the United States have been making these kinds of choices for generations, while trying to hide under the cloth of "I didn't mean to be."