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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tsyr" data-source="post: 750433" data-attributes="member: 354">I posted this on the previous thread, or words to this effect, but I thought I'd post it again since I never really got an answer to it the first time.My experience is exactly the opposite. I've *never*, not *once*, seen a woman play a decent male character. I'm not saying it doesn't happen! Far from it! But in my years of roleplaying around assorted tables, *I*, personaly, have never seen it happen. I've seen tons of the "Gay guy who is so much like a woman that if you put him in a dress you would get confused, and if you gave them a belt of gender-changing they would probably be happy." types, and I've seen a few "4 int 4 wis alchoholic who hits on every woman in the world while making a fool of himself left and right in the process"... But I've never seen a good example of a male character from a female. Heck, one female DM around here basicly does every male NPC in her world one of those ways. Believe it or not, we are deeper than that. On the other hand, I have, several times, seen male players play convincing female characters. Typicly a bit asexual, perhaps, but at least they had depth, weren't always a horrid sterotype, and I've never heard complaints from women about the potrayals. I *have* heard guys complain about some of the women's characters, though. Yes, I'll admit... there have been a handfull of lesbians (not near as many as you might think, though)... but, strangely, none of them have been ultra-butch or man-hating or anything. It's just been one aspect of who they are.Now, based on my sampling, to those people who say that guys should never be allowed to play female characters, but the reverse is fine: If I came to this thread and said that, based on my experience, I would never consider letting a woman play a male character, but had no problem with the reverse, would you object? Would you say I was wrong? If I said that every woman who played a male character was trying to "work out issues" or something, would you object? Personaly, I reject the whole notion that women are, by nature, too "deep" for men to roleplay, but men are so "shallow" that we are easy to roleplay. Utterly. I find it, at best naive. More truthfully, I find it insulting.  Of course, to paraphrase the punchline of a Dilbert strip, those aren't the only three options!</blockquote>

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