On Tue, 21 Dec 1999 11:36:07 +1100, "Jenn V." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>It's almost impossible to collate or maintain reliable numbers about
>ANYTHING about MUSHing - certainly not about gender balance, given
>that many-or-most MUSHes are used for roleplaying games online and
>thus people play with sex/gender. Hell, one of my current characters
>can't remember what it originally was - it's a shapeshifter.
The old joke when I was involved in mudding (1989-1992) was "Half the
females on muds are guys, and the other half are Claire." (Claire was
a high-school-aged girl from Texas who had several hundred
characters.)
That aside, one of the admins of the original TinyMUD was female (I
wish I could remember her name!) and Jennifer Smith coadmined TinyHell
with her husband. (She was the more rational of the two, by far.)
I don't remember any female coders during my time, but I left the
field relatively early. There were plenty of female builders,
though.
Kelly
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