EVE General Discussion

other than being a girl in real life why did you do it? And do you regret it?

No regrets from me. Reasons:

Female pilots provide better scenery while docked than male pilots or a ship.
Its different. All men would be boring.
Role play options.
One pilot is modeled after a character in a different computer game that I enjoyed.

Now: Are there any woman players who have made male pilots? And don't tell me there are no female eve players as there are three (that I know of) in my alliance, one being my sister.

i haven't made any male pilots yet. but in other mmo games i've rolled a few male toons. my favorite probably being my troll mage in my warcraft days. he was a blast.

I'm pretty sure this thread doesn't have any reason to be locked? We are discussing EVE not Adam, am I right?

I think this is a strange question.

Male/female in this MMO should not be considered any different then Fairy/Lizard/Robot in other MMO's. You won't get robots in the year 2177 ask humans why the heck we made robot toons when we are not a real robot, so your question makes no sense.

We get the option to create a girl or a boy, so we exercise those options.

If you are asking because you think people might be strange when they pick a sex that is not theirs in real life, then maybe you should question yourself, because this is just a game, and that choice here is meaningless.

This is one of those no win scenario debates for me and Ioci.

People get all weird when I refer to Ioci in the third party. They get all weird when I point out I'm a guy. I'm not pretending to be a woman. Ioci is a character in a video game. She is a digital personality I created and I've been on adventures in 50+ MMO's with her. She is the gutter punk, red headed step child I never wanted.

Regret it? Never.

Now you see, the concept of bent genders in society or the reasons why gets trivialized often much to the insult, as is the apparent reason to the target, of the GLBT community.

Hence they are made to endure the occasional notion that they read the wrong book, or watched the wrong TV show, or they are into freaky sexual desires, or whatever.

In reality, they are not really the target. When the occasional group, doctor, or whatever makes such assertions, how many overall people in a society are they making angry, insulting, or trivializing?

At most 5 percent.

That's why they are never the target.

The real target is the CIS/Hetero majority for they, not fully paying attention, gets somewhat of an implantation of the notion that their own gender identity is so fragile (hence trivialized) that doing something trivially wrong is going to have them singing Broadway show tunes, decorating the apartment, fabulousing so hard their friends will start looking for fire extinguishers, or seeking surgeries of the nature of the kind made famous by Loreena Bobbit or that other surgery known as an "addadictomy".

Hence one more thing to be in fear of, and keeping people nervous about their identities and intentions in any subject or aspect of life is one more link in the chains that bind everybody.

Therefore, in an MMO, rolling an opposite sex avatar is somehow noteworthy or some action that requires explanation or motive, as if it mattered.

When in fact it's equally trivial as the presumptions of the cause of diversion/deviance, the assertions intended to make people scared in the first place.

tl;dr: it does not matter.

This toon is a female and I don't regret it for a second.

Dear me, not this thread again.

I tend to assume that this thread is only brought up by those who are too young, i.e. under the age of 13 to actually be allowed to play Eve, and are unsure about the physical differences between boys and girls, let alone being concerned about sexuality as such.