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 Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2006 2:25 pm
My RP skills are lacking enough as they are, trying to get into a male mindset would be incredibly hard for me.
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Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2006 2:25 pm
But...I AM a girl. Does someone looking at this account and replying with "He/his/him" somehow make me less female when I walk away from the computer?
I'm not trying to troll or anything, honest. I'm just having trouble seeing around this mental block you're all describing you have... sad
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Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2006 2:28 pm
Wally_West But...I AM a girl. Does someone looking at this account and replying with "He/his/him" somehow make me less female when I walk away from the computer? I'm not trying to troll or anything, honest. I'm just having trouble seeing around this mental block you're all describing you have... sad
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Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2006 2:28 pm
What I'm trying to say is, at what point does what people say to the CHARACTER on the screen here....affect me as a person punching on the keyboard?
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Linda Lee Danvers Vice Captain
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Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2006 2:29 pm
I don't know, shouldn't you decide that?
I'm watching my pronouns around you anyway, after you caught me a couple of months ago.
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Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2006 2:33 pm
Linda Lee Danvers What I'm trying to say is, at what point does what people say to the CHARACTER on the screen here....affect me as a person punching on the keyboard?
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Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2006 2:34 pm
The primary reason that I don't have a female mule is that most of the female characters I would want as a mule are taken.
That said, I have another (available) female character or two I'd be interested in having as a mule, but I don't really feel that I know enough about them to be able to play them properly, so I choose not to.
Being thought of as a female instead of a male doesn't bother me in the slightest. With the mules I have, most folks assume that I'm Black. It happens wherever you go on the intarweb, really.
In the e-fed I used to belong to, several folks would argue with me as though I were Black ( I had a Black character), to the extent they accused me of using the "race card."
They shut up pretty quickly once they found out otherwise.
The way I figure it, white or black, male or female, gay or straight, I'll let the folks I don't care to let know me find out on their own or keep on believing whatever they believe. It doesn't really matter, they're barely more than strangers. The folks who I would consider friends either aren't going to care, or are going to know better. surprised
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Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2006 2:41 pm
I have trouble getting into the female mindset. Not to be sexist or anything, but I think it's harder for a male to act female (Believably) than the other way around
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Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2006 2:45 pm
I just tried to find and think of a female charecter I would want to be..... I couldn't, so I guess I'll just stick with my male ones.....
Unless Aunt May wants to come back.
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Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2006 2:55 pm
I can understand the mindset at first. I've got a mixture of account-genders. Aidan and George are guys, Jimaine and Faith are girls. If someone meets me under this name and I've said nothing about my *actual* gender, then I can understand them believing I am a female. Once corrected, though (which I usually don't do, just because I don't care), I don't see why they wouldn't refer to me as a he.
I don't really see a difference in mindsets, though, between men and women. While I can usually tell a character's gender without a visual or pronouns/names, and I usually have a good sense of whether it's a man or woman PLAYING that character, I don't have a perceived sense of "female" and "male." I can swap from George to Faith easily--It's the swap from easy-going slacker to psychopath that's harder.
And Virgil, I totally pictured you as black. Just because I've always seen your avatar, never you. I also don't picture "you." I picture your avatar. But now that I know the truth, I don't really expect anything to be different. It just doesn't really matter.
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Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2006 3:00 pm
Exactly.
And, I'm glad I'm not the only one who pictures folks as their avatars. Even folks I've seen pictures of, I tend to picture as their avatars. domokun
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Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2006 3:13 pm
I dunno, I think that personalities are alot harder to nail than genders, which is why my Wanda starts to sound disturbingly like my Raven on occasion or that one time that I'm sure Pete remembers; my Spider.
Thing is that if I'm roleplaying a character, I'm roleplaying that character. Unless I'm clearly OOC (or on my Spider account, but that's a whole different story), there's a pretty solid barrier between me and the character. I think just about every one of my accounts clash horribly with Remy's, but I don't take it personally and neither does he, we're always trading " blaugh " back and forth via PM. I don't set out overt warnings that I'm not female, because I don't care to. I think d**k got pretty freaked out when he figured out I was a guy, but that sort of thing happens and you just roll with it. I'm not brilliant at "playing a girl", but it comes with practice. Maybe some day I'll be as good at concealing my gender through roleplay as Wally is. Maybe not.
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Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2006 3:19 pm
I figure it's easier for some people than it is for others. I don't have a problem "Gender-bending" but I can only manage it in small doses, and for some reason it feels weird to me sometimes.
HQ: Yeah, I remember. I still have no idea how you manage so many mules.
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Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2006 3:26 pm
It's just like getting dressed in the morning, Pete. xd
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Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2006 3:33 pm
Doctor Harleen Quinzell It's just like getting dressed in the morning, Pete. xd Like it how? Some people do it perfectly, and others walk around all day uncomfortable before they realize their shirt still has a hanger?
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