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<blockquote data-quote="vulcan_idic" data-source="post: 1720347" data-attributes="member: 19615"><p>I'm male.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>My immediate thought upon reading this was, "So what the heck would appropriate 'gender traits' be?" The venerable mhacdebhandia makes the complaint that "There are no clues that one could pick up from the character's personality that indicate she's a woman" - to which I ask what personality clues from real people - once biological factors are removed (a forum like this being a good example) - cause you to assume a person's gender? In a high school english class we had an interesting example of this... we did an interest survey - favorite colors, movies, books, etc. - under a pseudonym, as did another class. The surveys were then taken and handed out randomly in the other class and each person was required to guess the gender of the other person based on their responses and make a case for why they thought this was the case. It was a rather fascinating look into the world of gender identity. The results as I recall (it has been many years) were no better than random chance of correctly selecting the correct gender. The reasoning was full of stereotypes: if the individual had neat hadwriting they were assumed to be female. Also if they preferred swimming as a sport to football, or baseball, they were commonly assigned a female gender. There were more examples but it has been far too long since since for me to remember more. So I would ask Mr. mhacdebhandia to provide samples of "female" gender traits.</p><p></p><p>I applaud Buttercup's response to Fingol's Advice - I was going to say something quite similar.</p><p></p><p>In general, being from a theatrical background, I would advise not roleplaying so much as <I'm a female, what would a female do> as going for a more specific approach. <I'm [Character Name]. What would [Character Name] do?> What has your character's background been? What events in her (or his - this applies equally) life have had particular influence on her (or him)? Have any of these experiences been gender specific - i.e. discrimination? If so then perhaps that could be a gender specific trait like Mr. mhacdebhandia has alluded to. If her the most significant experiences in her life have nothing to do with gender then they likely overshadow any natural gender specific tendencies (if such a thing exists - the last I read, the jury is still out on that). Play the character, not the gender... or the race, or the class, etc. - you're an individual, not a stereotype.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="vulcan_idic, post: 1720347, member: 19615"] I'm male. My immediate thought upon reading this was, "So what the heck would appropriate 'gender traits' be?" The venerable mhacdebhandia makes the complaint that "There are no clues that one could pick up from the character's personality that indicate she's a woman" - to which I ask what personality clues from real people - once biological factors are removed (a forum like this being a good example) - cause you to assume a person's gender? In a high school english class we had an interesting example of this... we did an interest survey - favorite colors, movies, books, etc. - under a pseudonym, as did another class. The surveys were then taken and handed out randomly in the other class and each person was required to guess the gender of the other person based on their responses and make a case for why they thought this was the case. It was a rather fascinating look into the world of gender identity. The results as I recall (it has been many years) were no better than random chance of correctly selecting the correct gender. The reasoning was full of stereotypes: if the individual had neat hadwriting they were assumed to be female. Also if they preferred swimming as a sport to football, or baseball, they were commonly assigned a female gender. There were more examples but it has been far too long since since for me to remember more. So I would ask Mr. mhacdebhandia to provide samples of "female" gender traits. I applaud Buttercup's response to Fingol's Advice - I was going to say something quite similar. In general, being from a theatrical background, I would advise not roleplaying so much as <I'm a female, what would a female do> as going for a more specific approach. <I'm [Character Name]. What would [Character Name] do?> What has your character's background been? What events in her (or his - this applies equally) life have had particular influence on her (or him)? Have any of these experiences been gender specific - i.e. discrimination? If so then perhaps that could be a gender specific trait like Mr. mhacdebhandia has alluded to. If her the most significant experiences in her life have nothing to do with gender then they likely overshadow any natural gender specific tendencies (if such a thing exists - the last I read, the jury is still out on that). Play the character, not the gender... or the race, or the class, etc. - you're an individual, not a stereotype. [/QUOTE]
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