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<blockquote data-quote="Lord Twig" data-source="post: 8129303" data-attributes="member: 31754">One thing I have found useful about running characters of the opposite gender is that it allows you to practice trying to think like the opposite gender. Which is then useful for when you are trying to write a story. I'm sure I am not the only person here that has tried their hand at authoring. And if you are writing a story, you are going to include characters of the opposite gender. It is a good idea to figure out how they think so you can write them in a realistic way.The two traditional genders are similar in many ways of course, but there are other ways where they are very different. They think different, they are emotionally different, their minds work in subtlety different ways. If you are married and haven't figured this out then your spouse probably has, and is very understanding. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Views on sex and relationships are of course a big one. The male/female relationship dynamic I find fascinating. What do men find attractive? What do women find attractive? How do they communicate? Men can say one thing and mean something very different from a woman who says the exact same thing. And if you don't understand that difference you have just miscommunicated&nbsp; and it can lead to hurt feelings.Anyway, I think it is a very useful tool in understanding the opposite gender and is fun in a challenging sort of way.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lord Twig, post: 8129303, member: 31754"] One thing I have found useful about running characters of the opposite gender is that it allows you to practice trying to think like the opposite gender. Which is then useful for when you are trying to write a story. I'm sure I am not the only person here that has tried their hand at authoring. And if you are writing a story, you are going to include characters of the opposite gender. It is a good idea to figure out how they think so you can write them in a realistic way. The two traditional genders are similar in many ways of course, but there are other ways where they are very different. They think different, they are emotionally different, their minds work in subtlety different ways. If you are married and haven't figured this out then your spouse probably has, and is very understanding. :) Views on sex and relationships are of course a big one. The male/female relationship dynamic I find fascinating. What do men find attractive? What do women find attractive? How do they communicate? Men can say one thing and mean something very different from a woman who says the exact same thing. And if you don't understand that difference you have just miscommunicated and it can lead to hurt feelings. Anyway, I think it is a very useful tool in understanding the opposite gender and is fun in a challenging sort of way. [/QUOTE]

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