well hm I guess since I am drunk and eating nachos I can do enover shotpost
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Well a) USSR got more equal rights for women BEFORE the west (woman could be a friend, a tovarisch, etc.) 2) Russians, of similar age to our codexer, were enamoured with everything Tolkien. Tolkien affected whole generation of people, to the point that, instead of just drinking ourselves to death or smoking and listening Tsoy (that's a previous, romantic, 40+ yo gen), there was another gen - the larp sort of gen (one I belong to as well). Just like cigarettes and Tsoi, we were also romantics, enought to drag ourselves around places like Bitsevsky park, hitting each other with swords and dressing up in stupid ways, play D&D, especially in the web, on 56k modems (and worse) cause was hard to find group; we used shit printed russian fan translated AD&D rules (which forever set Russian players on philosophy "bad roll, u died? eh, roll next char").
However, men were not alone. Girls who liked fantasy were also very much a thing, lot of them. Some of them would dress up in pretty dresses and play elfs, while others wouldn't fear to make themselves some leather armor and hit someone with a sword too.
It all then transitioned into CRPGs as well, hence the Daidres, who would collect every item in NWN1 and then dress their mary sue female characters up.
And then Bioware stepped up their game, then more fanfiction, more romance,
and so here we are now, with female russian coders wearing unicorn hats and playtesting romances.
probably.
