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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Khaalis" data-source="post: 1548150" data-attributes="member: 2167">Well just to throw in a few late comments... I answered that I play females only because I DMed almost all of the time and I was forced to personify both male and female personalities all the time. I have however, played with people who cross-gender play. In fact one friend of mine prefers to play female characters 90% of the time (disturbing as that is in RL...)  <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/laugh.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":lol:" title="Laughing    :lol:" data-shortname=":lol:" />  As far as being a player, I have never played a female, even in the various MMORPG's.  Personally I have met very few guys that can accurately play a females. Most In my experience, most guys tend to play female characters from their perspective of what they "want" a female to be - which in most cases just comes across as feeling awkward and wrong (usually due to it coming across as a sexist or immature surreal view of femininity). Not that no guy ever could, I just haven’t met any.  However, as someone else mentioned this really falls into the same arena as cross-species play as well. For example, I honestly do not think that anyone could truly play an Elf's personality as they are described. With their extremely long lifespan and the way they view the passing of time being SO alien to us, I really don’t feel that they can be accurately role-played. Elven players are always the "oddity" in Elven society. Otherwise, if all elves acted the way PC elves do, every game world would be dominated and ruled by thousands of 40th level epic elves.Anyway, just a few rambling thoughts.</blockquote>

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