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Message: <blockquote data-quote="seasong" data-source="post: 750670" data-attributes="member: 5137">Since this is turning into a coming out party (and I think the original poster has found his question more than adequately answered by now), here's the IMC for seasong:I've had 50/50 male/female ratios in my groups since roughly 1987 (high school). I've had a LOT of different groups - when I went to college, I had to rebuild my core group about every year, and when I moved to Austin, I've had to rebuild my core group about every 2 years. That turnover is due to people moving, for the most part - I associate with a fairly mobile bunch (my current group includes someone from each of Ohio, New York, Mississippi, Louisiana and me).Just counting off names in my head, I've had about 40 people in my core group over the last 15+ years. Of those, about half or more can do a pretty good gender bending, and the other half are not so bad that I can't occasionally allow it (although if they were going to want to do it more often, I would definitely sign them up for some solo sessions for training).Almost all of them can do a pretty good job with other cultures, mindsets, etc. The problems they have with gender bending are mostly mental blocks (I'm not a psychologist, so unlike the many psychologists on these boards, I will not be guessing as to WHY those mental blocks are in place).Now, when I say "pretty good gender bending", keep in mind that my groups are about half female, and have been for over a decade and a half. That opinion is based on both my own astute observations of human nature* and the observations made to me by the members of the appropriate gender in the group. I think we have a reasonable definition of "pretty good".So that's my experience. There are some mitigating factors, of course - I cherry pick my players (where most groups seem to be more ad hoc), I encourage them to improve and offer advice (where many groups just wait for you to improve yourself), and I'm an uncommonly good GM*. All of these factors alter the probabilities, so my group is likely NOT statistically significant.But, it does make a good extreme counter example <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" />.* Two of the above statements may seem rather, well, not humble. That's because they aren't.</blockquote>

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