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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bagpuss" data-source="post: 750371" data-attributes="member: 3987">I want to know why some folks think its suppossedly impossible or at least harder for a man to play a female (that could have a similar personality to his own), than it is for a man to play a male character with a personality far off his own.I don't know about the rest of you but in real life but my own personality not the same as some of the characters I play (either as a DM or a player), especially in games like Vampire, or Cyberpunk, where the characters can be almost psychotic or sociopathic in some case.Roleplaying to me, is not about playing myself in a fantasy setting. Its about playing another person. Your sex is not the only thing that defines you as a person. Sure it plays a major part in social interactions, but both men and women can be caring, rude, loose, fridged, brave, cowardly, thoughtful, thoughtless, etc, etc.Its not like growing up as a man I've lacked female role models either, 50% of my house hold was female. 51% of the population of the UK is female. There are women of all sorts of different personalities on the TV and in film. From Lara Croft to Dot Cotton, from Glenn Close in Fatal Attraction to Helen Mirren in Prime Suspect, its not like women are under represented in the modern media. Looking to literature you have Patricia Cornwell's books, Agatha Christie’s works, the Brontie sisters, and the list goes on.Basically if you are saying a man can't play a woman your saying they really can't play any personality other than their own. I don't believe that. Sure I known one player that can't play anything other than a dwarven berserker even if they are playing cyberpunk, but most of the roleplayers I've met can play a range of different characters.</blockquote>

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