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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Al" data-source="post: 751146" data-attributes="member: 2486">Fair enough.  In which case your beliefs are not in any way implied in your arguments.  Since female behaviour and motivations are so diverse, then it is not unfeasible that a female character may have a very similar personality to a man- ergo, there is no dichotomy in the roleplay. This strikes me as strange.  One of the fundamental underpinning of your argument is that men tend to be nympho-lesbo-dominatrices and you oppose this as vicious stereotyping of the worst order.  Yet you impose your own (admittedly broader) selection of stereotypes on your players.  Since you freely admit that females of masculine mindset exist (and vice versa) why must all female PCs have a feminine mindset?  Finally, your contention that you are merely defending suspension of disbelief is an interesting one, and dependent on your players.  Whilst I cannot speak for you, nor your group, suspension of disbelief is clearly determined by one's own perceptions- if you find a masculine-minded female incredulous then I would argue that it is quite possible that most people brought up on traditional swords n sorcery type roleplay find that fantasy female characters do go for the whole chainmail bikini thing.  On the one hand, you defend your rights to individual imagination (which I would uphold) yet you denounce another person's as 'masturbatory fantasies'. Cross-racial roleplay aside, I would support those arguing that they can empathise far more with a female characters of similar mindset than a male character of radically different mindset.  Moreover (and I seem to be saying this constantly) this 'red flag' seems to be raised as a result of your notion that females must always be psychologically different to males, and so significantly psychologically different to any and all males as to raise a red flag.  In effect, you are arguing that the most feminine male is less close to the most masculine female than the most feminine male is to the most masculine male.  If that's your belief, fine- but repeated psychological studies have proven you wrong.Finally, on a slightly lighter note, what do you do with male characters who have been polymorphed into or reincarnated as females?</blockquote>

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