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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ashtal" data-source="post: 280557" data-attributes="member: 3">I don't restrict people on what gender they can play, and I wouldn't play in a game that didn't let me choose what gender I want to have for my character.I find it odd, really, to see that some folks need to impose that on others.  Equally odd that gender is the only one so imposed.  There are many ways that people are different.  Why is one more intrisincally 'alien' and 'unallowable' than others?If there is no difference in the rules for playing male-female (and that's not necessarily the case, depending on the game world which may restrict classes or organizations by gender), then how does it hurt having the choice?  If it's purely cosmetic, what difference does it make?  Would it stop you from playing a Con game, if there were cross-gender players, simply by how the pregen characters were handed out?(All I know, is that if someone at the table told me I couldn't play Bob the Mage because I'm a girl, I'd pop 'em in the nose!)I had a blast with my honorable Male Half-Orc fighter.  Ooh, he was fun.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />Gender is cosmetic.  And as a gamer, I don't like restrictions on the creation of my characters based on someone else's hangups or bad experiences with bad players.  Judge me by me, and what I can do!</blockquote>

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