This is a very important and interesting topic. In our playgroup, we often have discussions about a couple of points I'd like to quickly make. 1. Respect for others and the tolerance (and welcoming!) of diversity isn't something that you should have to be told to exercise at a Magic event by a podcast, it's something that hopefully you're parents are teaching you from a young age. If you're an adult in a public place, I expect you to act like one. That example of the woman who had a guy put his hand on her leg is a perfect one. This kind of thing just does not happen at a library or coffee shop. (It does happen in bars, unfortunately.) If you act in an inappropriate manner towards anyone in front of me, then I'm going to call you an idiot, or probably worse. Handling you with kid gloves just isn't on. You're an adult. Take it like one. If you're a child, I'm going to find your parents/guardians or an older sibling and tell them exactly what you did. This leads on to the elephant in the room. Much of the problem does not come from a "boys club" culture, but from individuals who simply do not know how to act in civil society. This is either because they're a straight-up ***hole, or are mentally disabled or disadvantaged in some way. I really don't mean this in a derogatory way. Magic is of course for everyone and as Marshall said on the podcast, people use Magic as their escape from feeling discriminated against and left out in the rest of society. If you're a bit "quirky" (I'm sure everyone knows what I mean here) then I frankly have no pity. As much as Magic and games like it can be a release for people like that, it can also encourage the negative aspects of those personality types, and sheilds those individuals from "the real world." We would all love Magic to become mainstream and it really is getting there, but when the mainstream comes, we need to stop enabling this kind of behaviour. Little Jimmy who stares at the only female player in room or doesn't understand what a trans person is, but we all let him away with it because little Jimmy is a bit special is a thing of the past. 2. A few friends and I attend a draft every week in our local store. I get on with every player in that store. It's a mixture of play-skill and life backgrounds. I'm happy to play against any of them and everyone knows me as one of the opponents who will give you a good game and have fun doing it. I spend the time in between rounds small chatting with my opponents, or making a point of talking to someone I don't know so well rather than my close friends. After the draft, my friends and I go to the bar near the store. There we drink, tell stories, draft again, play poker, swear, moan about the wife/partner etc etc. This IS a boys club. I see no shame at all in using magic as one of the things I use as male bonding with my friends. It's not that girls aren't allowed, it's just that we play magic as part of our boys' night out. If you're not going to enjoy the boys' night out, then you're not going to enjoy the magic we use as part of it.