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Message: <blockquote data-quote="bekkilyn_rpg" data-source="post: 1119726" data-attributes="member: 13873">Mostly as a way of distancing myself from the character. I don't like to feel like I'm just putting myself in the game and when I play female characters, I have the tendency to want to exaggerate them in some silly way (i.e. make them prissy or some such) because they are supposed to be different from me. When I play male characters, I can make them act relatively normal and yet still feel like I'm roleplaying someone else, and I find it to be much more fun and interesting on top of that.Now I like myself just fine in real life and have a number of other interests outside of gaming which are usually traditionally seen as being "girly," but I just like variety.I still do play female characters from time to time as I've mentioned, but they are usually more of a challenge for me to play than when I play males for reasons I've given above. Sometimes I have played a female character *just* because it can be more of a mental challenge for me and I'm trying to get better at overcoming this RP difficulty. (Note that this difficulty is generally when playing the more human-like races. Playing female orcs and such are usually not problems since the racial choice is different enough in itself.)However, it has been my experience that most females do tend to play female characters so my view here may not be the most typical for women in general. I have known a large amount of males who will often if not always play female characters though.</blockquote>

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