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Really? So just because I like Aoi's movelist and counters in VF5 means I'm sexist and want to completely dominate women of all sorts.
Interesting...
Edit: Yes. But if you chose a male character to beat up females that would be even more sexist.
So..the only way to win is to not play?
Eh... yeah, I can agree with that.
Yar, I kind of got ninja'd by both of you while typing out my post. I realise you've cleared that out since then.
Myself, I always tended to morph characters into looking and acting like myself when possible. Which meant: dude, not ugly, and neutral - with a slant towards chaotic.
I still find it reflective that people are perfectly happy to take on a tremendous number of roles that fall well outside anything they have any experience of, but find gender (or to a lesser extent, race) such a line in the sand.
I share significantly more in common with a middleclass straight white twenty something women or black man, then I do with a mercenary barbarian in a faux medieval setting, a space marine or other action hero, space cop in a dystopia etc.
Edit: And fix my sarcastic detector.
He was being sarcastic.
Back in my WoW days, I had male and female characters on a race-by-race basis, and sometimes based on class. The human males were a bit too gorillaish, which is especially glaring when you're playing a wizard or something.
In other games, it's a case by case basis, and usually varies on the exact character customization options and the implications of playing one race over another. I would play Male Shepard in an instant if he were, say, voiced by Nathan Fillion and could be made to look like Malcolm Reynolds.
i think you need to turn your sarcasm detector back on, bub
But being "a mercenary barbarian in a faux medieval setting, a space marine or other action hero, space cop in a dystopia etc." carries no negative social stigma, gender-bending generally - and wrongly - does.
One thing people should ask themselves is: Would you feel ashamed or embarrassed if (hypothetically in this scenario you are male) someone saw you playing a game as a woman? What if it was a Bioware game and your character was engaging in a sex act?
Some of the things I've heard while playing L4D (in reference to Louis) make me shudder. (Interestingly enough, I didn't hear much racism at all in L4D2, where there are two black characters, though that may just be chance. I didn't really play 2 all that much either, to be honest.)
They're posting on topic, you're not. Who do you imagine is going to get hit with the rolled up newspaper?
I almost always play females, for various reasons, aesthetics being the first (better-looking, nicer models and armors in a RPG context).
I know I'm not gay, or repressed, or sexist, or anything. I don't require validation from anybody to choose a gender to play in a videogame. It is nothing more than a videogame, after all.
Do you play a gender other than yours for curiosity? That's fine. Is there a difference in how the game pans out? Fine. Do you find FemShep more compelling to play than MaleShep because of voice acting and having a woman as the commander in that setting? Fine too. Do you play it for dat ass? Also fine.
I think that all the judging happening in this thread is silly, but if it happens in here, I can imagine why certain people feel forced to choose a certain gender in videogames.
No one is going to top this.