Mindcrack Love: an alternative Mindcrack community

I feel like women doing LPs are always going to have a raw deal. There's two stereotypical ways that the average teenage boy can relate to an entertainer on the Tubes -- want to be them, or want to fuck them. Teenage boys do not want to be women, you know? A female LPer is just never going to attract that kind of devoted audience purely off of people who are impressed by what she does and wish they could do it too. Even if the admiration is there I feel it will be kept at a distance. So what's left? Pretty much just sex. And then she'll be blamed for playing up her sex appeal. Damned if she does and ignored if she doesn't.

I would love to see a woman (or five) on Mindcrack and don't think it would be likely to screw up the dynamic of the server. There are plenty of smart-ass, capable women in the world, and at least some of them must have Minecraft LPs. If Guude meets someone suitable at a con, or one of the others knows someone he'd like to promote, or someone from the fanserver is interested, I think they should just do it. It should be someone with a thick skin though. Almost by definition, whoever it is would have a small channel, and I would expect a fair amount of "why does she deserve this shot when X, Y, Z does not/she only got on because she's female" bullshit to go down.

Etho and Minecon: Doc said on yesterday's Mindcrack that Etho's not going because he doesn't like crowds. The server as a whole seems to be very respectful of what he wants in terms of things like this and don't give him grief about it like they might with someone else. As to why? I really have no idea.

Lack of religion and marriage: I feel like marriage means something in society that's independent of religion and spirituality. There are obviously plenty of people who feel like the two things are not separable, among both atheists and believers, but I've never felt that way myself. For me, if I want to make a commitment to spend the rest of my life with someone, then I want to be married. Don't tell me I'm not because it didn't happen in a church.