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Why do Men choose Female Avatars?

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LittleTerror
Stygian Systems
#181 - 2012-06-06 12:03:52 UTC
Theon Togenada wrote:
In most games the player model is completely aesthetic and has no bearing on the world around him/her. I see people obsess over the character customization in games and wonder why... it really doesn't matter what YOU look like in a game. If you need eye-candy that bad in a game then something is wrong.


There is nothing wrong with us wanting our characters to look a certain way, they are meant to be an identity totally unrelated to our real life selves. I'm kind of guessing you're the type that can't keep it ingame and take things way to seriously and forgetting it is just a damn game and role playing a character is a part of it.
Izziee
University of Izziee
#182 - 2012-06-06 12:12:12 UTC
Spy 21 wrote:
To me it seems freakishly weird for a male to run around in a virtual universe with the identity of a hot looking woman...

Maybe it's just my upbringing in an older and now outdated world but it just seems to me like playing dress up on a Saturday night and trolling the seamier parts of town.

....
No offense to the irl TV community,,, carry on as you are in peace and love.

S



Why do you run around a virtual universe with the identity of a freaky looking guy with ridiculous looking googles and a dumb tattoo on your face, I'll go out on a limb and pretty much assume as a fact you look nothing like that in real life.

And here you are talking about dressing up rofl.

Here's the deal, maybe, just MAYBE:-

Some of us are actually comfortable with our male sexuality
Some of us realise this is a FANTASY game
Some of us prefer looking at females all day
Some of us don't try to "dress up" as a wannabe "badass" pilot.
Azahni Vah'nos
Vah'nos Family
#183 - 2012-06-06 12:16:33 UTC
Just imagine a whole country being founded by someone who pretended to be a woman, what sort of a strange society would that turn out to be Smile .... the name Silence Dogood ring any bells.

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Cierejai
Biofuel Productions
#184 - 2012-06-06 12:34:07 UTC
Because I'm not a roleplayer and I don't try to emulate who I am in real life onto this character.

fakeedit: pretend I am posting on a female.
Yolanta Geezenstack
GWA Corp
#185 - 2012-06-06 12:47:59 UTC
Spy 21 wrote:
To me it seems freakishly weird for a male to run around in a virtual universe with the identity of a hot looking woman...S


So, you look the same in rl as your avatar? And you fly around in spaceships all day, too?

My personal reason: To get some more undisturbed gaming hours from my wife when I play an avatar that reminds her on her younger self. Twisted
zindeen
Poor Old Ornery nOObs
#186 - 2012-06-06 13:10:02 UTC
Well the way I look at it, I needed a face for my account, and I would rather look at a girl then a guy all day, but what ever floats your boat I guess.
Vertisce Soritenshi
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#187 - 2012-06-06 13:12:26 UTC
I have one female character. Technically it is my wifes account so it is her character but she doesn't play it as much as I do. I believe that a persons choices on an avatar reflect the kind of person they are.

Basically if you choose to play a female character and you are a male in real life then deep down you are a woman and God made a mistake. =P lol

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Adaira Corada
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#188 - 2012-06-06 13:33:26 UTC
Impressive debate.
Barbelo Valentinian
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#189 - 2012-06-06 13:56:01 UTC
I find it really hard to understand how anyone could be bothered by it. Weird.

Speaking for myself, I know that while I was in the character creator making Barb, I was sort of making my ideal beauty, and it was fun to do - almost erotic in a way. Kind of like a mad scientist creating the ultimate female android of his dreams.

Is that bad and wrong?

Also, being a male, I prefer looking at women to looking at men. Is that bad and wrong?

Also, there's something sexy about "possessing" a female avatar. It's not that one feels female, it's that one is, in a way, worshipping the kick-ass female of one's dreams. Is that bad and wrong?

When I look at people who only make male toons and look at their toons' stoic, male, unshaven faces, I just laugh and think "boy, you're missing out on some fun to be had!" Big smile

Now when it comes to serious roleplay, as in RP, roleplaying a woman is incredibly hard for me, and it's much easier to roleplay a male toon.

Also, the thought of leading some poor chump on, making them think I'm female irl, gives me the creeps, it's something I would never do.
Tobiaz
Spacerats
#190 - 2012-06-06 14:02:23 UTC
Men choose female avatars to avoid having to deal with all the harassment and sleazy innuendos by female players.

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Ana Vyr
Vyral Technologies
#191 - 2012-06-06 14:09:55 UTC
It drives insecure people insane.
Reverend Cletis
Synister Mynisters
#192 - 2012-06-06 14:20:06 UTC
I have one female character on my account. She takes care of the POS, organizes the corp hangars, researches bpo's, makes copies, etc. etc. She cleans up after the two male characters make a mess of everything.

This isn't too "Leave it to Beaver"ish, is it?
Toxina Trooper
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#193 - 2012-06-06 14:46:41 UTC
Seishi Maru wrote:
For me it seems extremely disturbing that someone would see its game avatar as an extension of him/herself. That is , at least for my eyes, a clear lack of self security and lack of clear perception of the world. That is a fantasy, and fantasies that you cannot separate from reality are mental disorders, not the other way around!

My main hobby is drawing, and i ma reasonably good at it. In my 12 years of drawing the thing I have drawn most are female faces, because they are beautiful and fascinate me! When I made my eve characters, not for a single moment I even tough on making a male avatar! The same way that in these 12 years I never ever wanted to draw an ugly male face!

Now If you think the picture that you have sculped with eve tools must represent something about your sexuality, then I am sorry for you, you might not notice it, but you DO have a problem! Lack of capability of separate yourself from the things you built in your life is not healthy. This is the type of person that buys an expensive sport car to parade it on street and thing they are better because of it. They accelerate very very fast with these cars on street and feel awesome because they think" I can go so fast!" while they are unable to understand that the merit on going fast is not theirs, its from the engineer that made the car! You are not your car, you are not your drawings, you are not a murderer when you play Grand thief auto, you are not your eve avatar!

If you cannot understand that, I feel sorry for you, because you are among the mass of mentally challenged people that is not even aware of your own surroundings and of yourself.

^^
Toxina Trooper
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#194 - 2012-06-06 14:50:02 UTC
Gerald Taric wrote:

A simple advice: Games are no dating platform. Don't care about the real gender of the other player.

Some people do.
Savage Angel
Garoun Investment Bank
Gallente Federation
#195 - 2012-06-06 14:51:59 UTC
I do it because I enjoy these threads so much. The psychology of someone bothered by an avatar must be quite fascinating, or maybe repugnant. Possibly both.

Btw, if someone could play a robot, would you be confused as to whether or not the player was really a robot?
Toxina Trooper
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#196 - 2012-06-06 14:54:33 UTC
Spineker wrote:
There are what like 50 women play Eve? LOL

NO, only Mintchip and another one.
Svarek
#197 - 2012-06-06 14:54:40 UTC
Much ado over sausage.

Whoops.
Thor Kerrigan
Guardians of Asceticism
#198 - 2012-06-06 15:02:23 UTC
To me it happens right as you create the character. We all know what kind of character we are creating and therefore we all partake in "roleplaying" in some shape or form.

The difference happens when some people create a "character" while other recreate "themselves".

For those who create a "character", gender is of little importance. They will generally go for the gender (if possible) that best suits the character. Gender choice becomes just another "attribute" as other visible parts like hair/size/clothing...

For those who recreate "themselves", gender is probably one of the biggest "requirements". With this mindset, creating a character with the opposite sex generates the issues described in the OP.

Keep in mind, none of the two styles of creating characters should be considered better than the other. Even I, depending on the situation/game/electronic medium, will use one or the other.

It boils down to whether some of us want to play as observers to a story or pretend we are inside the game.

For EVE, I prefer the observer style of gameplay and therefore do not feel gender choice has any effect on how I enjoy the game. Same thing when I watch a movie.
Toxina Trooper
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#199 - 2012-06-06 15:05:32 UTC
Vertisce Soritenshi wrote:

Basically if you choose to play a female character and you are a male in real life then deep down you are a woman and God made a mistake. =P lol

Talk about this game and this thread with a psychiatrist, your opinions, and pay attention to what he says about you.
Alayna Le'line
#200 - 2012-06-06 15:05:48 UTC
I find it weird that this is a topic that keeps cropping up on various MMO boards.

The fact is that most of us don't "identify" with our characters the way these people see it. I "am" not "Alayna", she is her own identity. I don't see my characters as "me" but as "he/she/it", they're generally separate identities with different values and reasons for doing stuff than the "real me". If people only play characters that "are" them then I really worry about some of the people I've met in EVE (and other games). So if your characters aren't "you", how much of a stretch is it to play another gender as well?

I guess a lot of people are worried about being seen as female by others or some such bullshit, I can tell you from years of experience that there might be some desperate men like that (never ran into any) but the vast majority of the MMO population doesn't give a rat's ass about what gender you play. Because it doesn't matter, we're here to play a game, not find a bloody date (though one of my mates did manage just that, doubt it had anything to do with his "sexy" undead avatar though)

For some it might have something to do with having something nice to look at, but really that's far from everyone's reason to pick a female avatar. Hell I knew a gay guy while playing WoW who played female characters, I'm pretty sure it wasn't because his avatar turned him on...

Personally I no longer care which gender I play (I used to, got over it a long time ago), I tend to pick a race based on a set of criteria and then I check which gender looks "better" to me based on the default we get presented (might hit "randomize all" a few times) and the names I have in mind.