(03-02-2015, 04:59 PM)Natalie Mcbeef Wrote:(03-02-2015, 04:58 PM)sforze Wrote:(03-02-2015, 04:49 PM)Natalie Mcbeef Wrote: How about no one has a responsibility to accurately portray anything, and if you don't like it you can go RP with someone else.
I don't give a damn about the normative heterocrapfart butt poop.
I just play the char I want to play.
I really don't like the tone in this thread that unless you are a thing, or have a doctorate in it, you can't RP that thing.
You're not referring to the tone, you're very poorly paraphrasing the points being made. Nobody has said "if you aren't a woman, don't RP as one", or, "If you don't have a PhD from a women's college in the studies of the alternative sexualities of tubers, don't RP as a demiromantic Jerusalem Artichoke". You're being extremely uncharitable to what's actually being said and it's not constructive to discussion.
What are you saying then?
tl;dr - That if you're trying to write a convincing character and not simply gun it straight for wish fulfillment, you have to think about more than just the sitcom version of the gender/race you're trying to portray.
