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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Man in the Funny Hat" data-source="post: 5288174" data-attributes="member: 32740">I am a male who plays female characters because about 50% of all people in ANY world are female.  Even in oppressive, chauvanistic, male dominated, misogynistic D&D games and game settings there's plenty of room for NORMAL female characters - perhaps even a NEED for such representation. While I once was a teenager who along with my fellow male conspirators indulged in my share of peurile demonstrations of immaturity (the details of which I'd never care to repeat to any woman that I didn't want to hate me) neither I nor anybody I ever gamed with has quite crossed the line into using female characters for uncomfortable, self-indulgent sexual perversion.  Dangerously close a few times, but not quite over the line. I guess I and my gaming groups have been sensible and/or well-adjusted enough that I've never needed or bothered to give it more than a passing thought.  Only in recent years have I seen that enough people seem to have had that uncomfortable or even sickening experience to actually pose the question as to whether the entire possibility of running a character of the opposite gender is suspect.  I suppose all I can say to that is I'm glad I'm not you. I think I can actually credit the DM I first played under.  In the EARLY early days of 1E we happened to find a player who did indeed try to turn the opportunity of open roleplaying into a polluted mental playground.  The DM's response was, "What the hell do you want me to describe for you here?  FINE - you moan, you groan, you ___!"  That of course put an immediate end to such stupidity and we never really had much problem with that afterwards.  Beyond general teen male infantile humor in the absence of the presence of women, of course.</blockquote>

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