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There's no real way to take player statistics for D&D but players at events and stores is much more 60/40% men to women these days. I say this as a female 5th edition D&D player who attends said events. My local store's most popular GM/DM is a gal too. Which makes me think it's much less about what women might enjoy about the game and more about the cultural history of the game. And the men who play D&D are, in my experience, more likely to be heavy readers, especially in sci-fi and fantasy. All players at my table, men and women, have read all of A Song of Ice and Fire (aka Game of Thrones), all of Lord of the Rings, various Jon Scalzi, Stephen King, etc. Lots of those are heavy books. Long attention spans required.
The answer is simple. It's guys who are writing the books.
^This. It really seems to be just a cultural thing and it's something that needs to change, and something that can be changed.
Damn right I am!
Although that's probably also cultural conditioning and publishing issues (which is why most female authors publish under a gender neutral pen name) rather than strict women's interest issues. After all, the first novelist in history (Murasaki Shikibu) and the most financially successful and globally acclaimed author in history (JK Rowling) are both women.
I've taken someone with ADHD fishing, though not hunting. It makes then crappy fishermen because they can't sit still and quiet and be patient, and they get distracted when they should be paying attention to fish rising signs.
Their hypervigilance and shifting attention facilitates both the detection of game and detection of the saber-tooth behind the bush.
Yeah but bad at stalking and waiting for the opportune moment to strike, or carefully setting delicate traps.
I started reading in elementary school because I didn't have any friends to play with during recess. So I sat up around the spot that was shaded and quiet, which also happened to be where the kids in "time out" were sent, probably also starting my easy-going association with outcasts, delinquents, and other social "undesirables."
That's not a universal norm though. Very often, especially before our species "settled down," division of labor was not divided by gender as we think of it. It tied into religious practices, and of course spread from there, but this "boys will do this and girls will do this" is highly socially sensitive. There are *some* traits are generally found in one sex over the other due to hormones, but it's not hard to find cultures with about five, or even several more "gender expressions" due to the vast spectrum that our expressions of sex and gender have played out over our history. Our black/white boys/girls even hardly exists outside contemporary-esque (meaning it started many centuries ago but is still present today) Western thought. Before this shift, which occurred as Christianity came to dominate Europe, many cultures had strong, proud women who stood with men as teachers, healers, hunters, and even warriors.
ADHD traits are the very anti-thesis of what is required for skilled hunting.
When you hunt, you don't want to look at everything that moves because most of what does move isn't what you're after, and not typical for it anyways. It also makes hiding and ambushing, perhaps two of our greatest survival features, much harder. When you do spend time tracking certain things, you do learn what you need to watch for, and what you can ignore or not. Much like fishing, which I can't imagine being much fun to someone whose constantly back-and-forth on the pole every time it moves. Or duck hunting, where you eventually learn what your intended and legal targets are without having to give it much thought. Not that people with ADHD can't hunt or make good hunters, but patients, staying calm, keen observation, and a steady hand are all required for the skilled hunter.
