If im a guy, is it weird to play as a female

[Darth Brogan]

I always play a guy, cause I just think that I can't really RP as a woman.

 

[Coldwind913]

I'm kind of a tomboy so it really isn't as hard as I anticipated.

Please don't take this as a personal criticism, NDirish1017. But that there is why it's usually male players who start these threads.

Women who play the opposite sex get to fall back on "I'm a tomboy", and society generally accepts that. Men who want to play women - for whatever reason - don't have an equivalent 'cute', socially acceptable label they can use if they behave like a woman. Which makes me wonder if it's really about one sex still being seen as more acceptable than the other...?

Maybe I'm being over-sensitive, and I don't want to start on a full-on political rant here. But it's something I do wonder about, and I think I'll keep wondering about it as long as people keep feeling the need to come up with excuses for playing women.

Sorry. Done now.

 

[Beechlgz]

Never heard of tomboy as being cute, but then again it is commonly used as an insult where I'm from, usually alongside the words fat, hairy and man to insult a girl who appears a bit masculine... sad to say people are that shallow.

That said I don't find it any more weird for a man to play a woman than for a woman to play a man. It's not really you anyway, it's just a character in a story. It wouldn't really be much different from you writing a story with a protagonist with the opposite sex from yourself. Authors do it all the time.

 

[sticky runes]

For goodness sake, female characters have existed in video games for decades. Playing as one will not suddenly cause your willy to shrivel up and sprout tits and vagina.

 

[Psiberzerker]

Women who play the opposite sex get to fall back on "I'm a tomboy", and society generally accepts that. Men who want to play women - for whatever reason - don't have an equivalent 'cute', socially acceptable label they can use if they behave like a woman. Which makes me wonder if it's really about one sex still being seen as more acceptable than the other...?

There is a double standard there, but there always is. Men still dominate the workplace, make more money in the same position almost regardless of vocation (Even classically "Women's Business" like Nursing.) However, women have the right to be pretty, or "Butch." She might be called Tomboy, or even be passed up for dates, but compare that to what happens to "Sissies," or "Fags", and it's a whole nother something something. The first sexism I was personally aware of is the fact that Girls can wear pants, but guys can't wear skirts. Of course, we can physically, but try it in public some time without a socially acceptible outlet, like Halloween, and see what happens. (And before you say "Kilts", that's another exception that proves the rule, and you'll still get bullied in one, even if you're a big burley bearded Scotsman.)

I'm trans-gendered, and I live in TX. Before that, I lived in North Kerrlina, California, and over 20 more states. The consensus I've seen on Homosexuality is M/M is "ewwe", and F/F is "Ooh!" Look in one of those olde fashioned porno shoppes if you're old enough, or surf the 'net. "Lesbian" porn is mainstream, almost as common as hetero, but "gay" porn means strictly Male, it's not even considered as gay if it's 2 girls, because that's understandable, amirite? 3some? It better be 2 girls, and a guy, but if it's 2 guys and a girl, they can't even look at each other, much less touch, or... Just don't want to think about it, but just two girls kissing..? "That's so Hot." The Navy recently did a same sex couple kissing on a poster. 2 Men? Hael nah, that's so Villiage People. Ellen Degeneres is a Hero, who wouldn't want to go out with Anne Heche, or Portia de Rossi? Who was the first onscreen Gay kiss in Prime Time? Anyone... Beuler?

We're different, and society likes to express these differences with Double Standards. It's not fair, but at least it's not fair to everyone, right? Of course it's not wrong for a Man to play a female character. It doesn't make you gay, or a transvestite, or have any effect on who, or what you are IRL. Why doesn't anyone question if it's Ok for a girl to play a Male character? "If I'm a white guy, is it okay for me to play a Redguard?" Of course it is, don't be Racist.

 

[Psiberzerker]

For goodness sake, female characters have existed in video games for decades. Playing as one will not suddenly cause your willy to shrivel up and sprout tits and vagina.

If only it was that easy. {Sighs wistfully}

 

[Shouts-At-Dragons]

It's your game, you have the freedom to do whatever you want. The character is yours to create!

You could have play as a mad barbarian Orc, an Imperial scholor, the results are endless. As of a change of gender, that can spice things up!

 

[Psiberzerker]

If you're a good person, does playing someone evil make you bad? Hell no, it's just a game.