Character Gender...

[Oenanthe]

I think part of the problem with this poll is it seems to be asking two questions rolled into one.

1: Do you cross play.
I don't as I like the look of the female toons (I am female) more than the male ones. I have tried male characters and they never seem to last, i just find the way they move and how they look all wrong, even for cats, cows and midgets.

2: Do you like other people cross playing.
It doesn't bother me most of the time, I treat a toon as the gender they are on screen. That said I know several people who cross play, all males playing female toons both in MMORPG and table top RPGs. Mostly they have a mix of male and female characters and it doesn't seem a problem the characters act very similar regardless of gender. However I do know one or two that play exclusively female toons, both in MMORPG and in table top RPGs and I find they are more creepy. So I think it must be not that they cross play, but how they portray the female character, which of cause is more obvious in a table top game than on the computer. The problem seems to be that they believe they understand the female mindset (which even us females will admit is fairly odd and can be very contradictory at times) and end up play a female as they fantasize a female being, which comes out as very artifical and often very cringe worthy and slutty.

I can only speak from my own experiances and it seems that I know far more male gamers than female ones so I have very little experience of females playing male characters, and being female, I am probably not in a good position to say if they can do it well or if we tend to over simplify the male mindset too much.

Before anyone takes offense, this is entirely about people I know personally, not anyone on the forum (or at least I don't think any of the people I'm talking about are on this forum), and is my own personal opinion and I don't have any type of psychology degree either, although I do think it could make a wonderful thesis if you could get honest answers out of people. I think the real question is not about cross playing, its about how well a person really understands someone of the oposite gender and subsequently how they portray them.

[Kichwas]

I created this thread for fun and to see if i could learn something about the people that play "This Game", and I did pick up on something.

From my perspective it was a very simple question. "Do you agree with Cross-play?" well if you do cross-playing, then you obviously must agree with it. if you ONLY make Cross-gender Characters, then you obiously Strongly agree with it..

That very question begs an argument. Its wording seeks to incite others into an angry reaction.

You didn't ask them if they liked pie. You asked them if they agree with pie. But not even that - historically, and in your wording, is in the insinuation that pie is up to something, especially because its really cake.

In other words, you came in here flame-baiting. Hoping to get us all riled up against each other into another one of those "you filthy freaks on the other side" arguments... But people here are smarter than that, they saw through your conduct.

I get that. I have a friend that Only plays Female Characters, and he's normal.. I also had a bad experience with a dude posing as a chick in Perfect World.

In other words, you went into Perfect World and treated it like a dating game, and then got a nasty shock when you found out it wasn't. And now you have an agenda...

[Don't Panic]

I agree with Pie.

[Kichwas]

I agree with Pie.

You pie freaks need to get back in the pan where you belong.

Cake all the way. Out of the oven, frosted up, and on your table , not in your face!

[Fey]

You pie freaks need to get back in the pan where you belong.

Cake all the way. Out of the oven, frosted up, and on your table , not in your face!

Waffles.

[Midyin]

That very question begs an argument. Its wording seeks to incite others into an angry reaction.

You didn't ask them if they liked pie. You asked them if they agree with pie. But not even that - historically, and in your wording, is in the insinuation that pie is up to something, especially because its really cake.

In other words, you came in here flame-baiting. Hoping to get us all riled up against each other into another one of those "you filthy freaks on the other side" arguments... But people here are smarter than that, they saw through your conduct.



In other words, you went into Perfect World and treated it like a dating game, and then got a nasty shock when you found out it wasn't. And now you have an agenda...

Try again dr. Phill...

When you Assume You just make an ASS out of U while trying to make one out of ME.. lol

[sevalaricgirl]

I play only females because I RP and find it very hard to RP a male when I'm female. It's a simple as that. It has nothing to do with homophobia. One of my close friends is a straight male and he has more female characters than male.

[Katzyn]

I play only females because I RP and find it very hard to RP a male when I'm female. It's a simple as that. It has nothing to do with homophobia. One of my close friends is a straight male and he has more female characters than male.

Ooh, yeah, I have that problem, too. I tried playing a male character in another game, but it was just too odd for me.

[robinsiebler]

Things are different now. When we were kids, boys played with Ken and girls played with Barbie.

Lol...for some strange reason, my mother gave me a G.I. Joe with a Kung Fu grip. One day, I forgot about the doll as I was reading and left it directly under the lamp. Then I had a G.I. Joe with a mutant forearm. I would either pretend that he had barely escaped the Bikini Atoll or been barbequed by Godzilla.

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You pie freaks need to get back in the pan where you belong.

Cake all the way. Out of the oven, frosted up, and on your table , not in your face!

The cake, of course, is a lie. It is merely a feeble attempt to coax you into burnination.

[Kichwas]

Try again dr. Phill...

When you Assume You just make an ASS out of U while trying to make one out of ME.. lol

You should really look at the wording of your poll.

Because if you did not intend that, you should not have worded it the way you did. Especially in the history of how such polls have been presented, used, and debated, over many many many years of such polls in various online communities.

If you cannot see that, maybe you belong on Kaineng server, where being less aware of social dynamics and less aware of the implications of wording choices seems more common by your description of the place.