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<blockquote data-quote="Hawk Diesel" data-source="post: 6937213" data-attributes="member: 59848"><p>So I'm a cis-norm male, and I realized that all the D&D characters I've ever played were also cis-norm male. And in roleplaying games, you have this unique opportunity to play a person completely different from you in so many ways, but in this way I've been unable to step outside this one characteristic. I've never personally been interested in playing a female character. Not because I didn't think it would be interesting or fun, but because I didn't think I could really pull it off. And this also got me thinking about other people I've gamed with. In my experience when men play as women, they play up the seductress part (perhaps part of the male fantasy of how women should be?), or have some sexual trauma in their character's history that defines them as man hating violence mongers. In a sense, the aspect of playing female becomes an incredibly central aspect of the character who is more cartoon than a flesh-out character. Perhaps this is my own bias coming out, but this is one of the reasons that I never wanted to run a female character, because I didn't really feel I could avoid this pitfall. </p><p></p><p>On the other hand, I can totally understand a person (regardless of gender or gender identity) playing a male character, since it allows them to explore issues of power, status, and all sorts of other things that don't inherently connect with being male, but is one of the privileges of being male. Additionally, being a therapist and working with adolescents, I can see people playing cross gender as a way to explore their own gender identity.</p><p></p><p>These were just some thoughts I was having in response to one of my players proposing the character they were thinking of running. Has anyone here had an experience of playing someone of a different gender identity? What was it like and how did you play that character?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hawk Diesel, post: 6937213, member: 59848"] So I'm a cis-norm male, and I realized that all the D&D characters I've ever played were also cis-norm male. And in roleplaying games, you have this unique opportunity to play a person completely different from you in so many ways, but in this way I've been unable to step outside this one characteristic. I've never personally been interested in playing a female character. Not because I didn't think it would be interesting or fun, but because I didn't think I could really pull it off. And this also got me thinking about other people I've gamed with. In my experience when men play as women, they play up the seductress part (perhaps part of the male fantasy of how women should be?), or have some sexual trauma in their character's history that defines them as man hating violence mongers. In a sense, the aspect of playing female becomes an incredibly central aspect of the character who is more cartoon than a flesh-out character. Perhaps this is my own bias coming out, but this is one of the reasons that I never wanted to run a female character, because I didn't really feel I could avoid this pitfall. On the other hand, I can totally understand a person (regardless of gender or gender identity) playing a male character, since it allows them to explore issues of power, status, and all sorts of other things that don't inherently connect with being male, but is one of the privileges of being male. Additionally, being a therapist and working with adolescents, I can see people playing cross gender as a way to explore their own gender identity. These were just some thoughts I was having in response to one of my players proposing the character they were thinking of running. Has anyone here had an experience of playing someone of a different gender identity? What was it like and how did you play that character? [/QUOTE]
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