(03-01-2015, 03:24 PM)Hihimi Wrote: Honestly? I still don't understand why this is even a discussion. People will play what they want to play, and very little will persuade or dissuade someone from playing a female if they want to play a female, or a male if they want to play a male. As there are no tangible benefits to playing a female toon, it is not any sort of problem, or even something to be noticed at all.ÂI am more or less just guessing it's acting more as a personal opinion census than, say, a means of debate. An observation now giving way for others to state their preferences. I figure that is more than likely the case. Identifying with a character archetype tends to help people write more convincingly, and I think more or less some people don't like to deviate from that.Â
If anyone is butthurt about this, I apologize, but people will always play what makes them happy, and you can't force me to play more male or more female characters, no matter how the gender makeup of the server falls. I have no qualms about playing male characters-I have several-but for the record, encouraging people to play what they don't want to play for the sake of "Realism" is outright stupid, and never works.
For example, just like in real life, I play a negligible, androgynous thing with a penchant for fashion and a queer balance of gender traits.Â
Or, as one might put, "masculine enough for a man, feminine enough for a woman."
