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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sixchan" data-source="post: 751880" data-attributes="member: 9189">No offence Zad, but have you actually read the actual thread?  Because this isn't a new question.  The answer was as follows:Women exist.  How they would act in a given situation can be determined using real life, especially by any women sitting at the table.  Wizards and Elves don't.  How they would act in a given situation cannot be determined using real life, and there are no Wizards or Elves sitting at the gaming table who could take offence.----Quick sidetrack to go WAY back to page 3--remember that?I have many gay friends, and more than a few bisexual friends too.  And many of them (though not all) are much more feminine that your average guy.  But this can also be affected by just what the 'average guy' in my area is, i.e. a 3 foot tall walking lump of violent testosterone with Exotic Weapon Proficiency - Glaswegian Broken Bottle.  Some are kinda butch, macho guys, but lots of them only really have their femininity surpassed by my own on certain days (which was why I asked about transgenders, and I think I need to see someone about it a some point...), and most of the women.I have an unusual group of friends, and this changes my view on whether you can play stereotypes.  I know men who are amazing with computers (even by my own ego inflated standards), men as thick as a planet, gay men, straight men, bisexual men, immature men, mature men, borderline men, down-to-earth men, emotional men, completely unemotional men, etc.  I don't have as many female friends, but some are stupid, some are very intelligent, some fit the definition of the word 'slut', one is more or less asexual, some are straight, some are bi, some are lesbians, some are violent and some are pacifistic.So as you can see, no matter who I'm roleplaying, if I was around a table with all of my friends, no matter WHAT I played, if I RPed badly, I'd offend someone.  Even if I'm playing a complete stereotype, some around that table probably wouldn't complain I'm playing a lesbian dominatrix, they'd complain I'm playing it wrong.  So my solution would be to play what I want, and if I offend someone, who cares?  I'll explain it to them afterwards that I'm not a good Roleplayer.----Oh, and I still haven't had my question about playing Female Elves answered yet.  Or at least, I didn't see it...</blockquote>

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