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Why do Men choose Female Avatars?

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Rhivre
TarNec
Invisible Exchequer
#221 - 2012-06-06 18:41:57 UTC
Xenuria wrote:

I can't help but notice that my reasons for choosing a female character are very different from the majority of people in this thread. I think that I am very extroverted in so far as, rather than be a willing victim of the "Proteus effect" I create a character that already IS me so I do not end up becoming something I am not.



I actually chose a char that looks pretty much like me, so much so that my other half did a split-screen thing with the 2 side by side...

I do have to agree with the Dev post in this thread though, when it comes up that I live with Caleb, the response usually is something like this

Random: "Ah, cool, you are room-mates?"
Me: "Heh, no, he wouldn't get so much coffee in the mornings if we were room-mates"
Random: "WTF, you and caleb are gay?"
Me: ".......That is obviously the first conclusion I would jump to as well"

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Barbara Nichole
Royal Amarr Institute
Amarr Empire
#222 - 2012-06-06 18:49:39 UTC  |  Edited by: Barbara Nichole
My husband's response when I ask him this same question was, "because they can".

  - remove the cloaked from local; free intel is the real problem, not  "afk" cloaking -

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Yuriko Deathstrike
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#223 - 2012-06-06 18:57:35 UTC
lol thread is still going,

It always turns into a long thread no matter what MMO forum i see it posted on.

For me the reason only goes as far as 'ohh my toon looks pretty cute', and i think nothing of it (or people that do the same). What I think is funny is the theories that a lot of armchair psychologists come up with.

-you're gay
-you're straight but deep down you're gay
-cant get any IRL
-wants to bang their toon
-is a cross dresser
-insecure

You know back in the day Diablo 2 had 3 characters that were female with no options for male. Should i have not played any of those characters? because we all know what people like to think about that dont we. I wonder if maybe the people who over analyze this subject are the ones with actual hidden/repressed issues here.
Cloned S0ul
POCKOCMOC Inc.
#224 - 2012-06-06 19:08:45 UTC  |  Edited by: Cloned S0ul
I have total 9 characters 8 male and one female, most reason why i use this alt on forum and in game is becuse this is well skiled character and i use it in meny multiple tasks it got 87 skills at lvl 5, 38 skills to lvl 4 and only 8 skills at lvl1... while my main got 15mil sp more but big disperesion with skills meny low lvl , its only character... in this case no mater who is main or who alt. Somtime i use only main while somtime only this alt, because all are old toons...

Im accustomed to this account, second reason why i like my female is becuse i like to wach somtime her face, as probably every man like - enjoy - love looking at females, is not about identify with oposite sex, is because women looks beautyful and every man like chiks. Maybe Op cant get it.
Ila Gant
Hedion University
Amarr Empire
#225 - 2012-06-06 22:02:31 UTC
Xenuria wrote:
Ila Gant wrote:
Xenuria wrote:

Reason 1: I am "GenderQueer" and as such do not fit in the binary gender system that society has perpetuated.

I think "society" can be forgiven for perpetuating a biological generality. Just saying...



What you are thinking of is NOT gender, you are thinking of "sex".

The Sex of something is NOT the same as the Gender of something. Sex is something scientific and gender is really something cultural.

Do keep in mind the animal kingdom could teach us a great deal about "gender" and "sex".

Male Sea Horses for example get pregnant with baby Sea Horses.
Some insects reproduce parasitically and other insects have several different distinct "female' sexes.

I think you get the idea.

I can't help but notice that my reasons for choosing a female character are very different from the majority of people in this thread. I think that I am very extroverted in so far as, rather than be a willing victim of the "Proteus effect" I create a character that already IS me so I do not end up becoming something I am not.

That is indeed what came to my mind. Thank you for the clarification.
Boomhaur
#226 - 2012-06-06 22:43:26 UTC
THE L0CK wrote:
Svarek wrote:
Besides, I doubt any of us are here (or I hope we aren't) to make cyber-sex-buddies, so the sex of the avatar shouldn't be that important. If you get to know the person to the point where it'd make a difference, you would know the difference, I should think.


Once when I was online in my dwarf clan, I met a level 41 dwarf named Cindy and we fell in love despite her being below my status. I would send her poetry about warcraft and she would edit it for me. As my wife works a hundred and eighty hour week, this gave me plenty of opportunity to organise a liaison with Cindy in real life. After arranging to meet, I packed my dwarf costume and battle axe and used my wife's credit card to buy a bus ticket to the town Cindy lived in. As it turned out, Cindy was actually a real dwarf. And a man. We still made love so as not to waste the money I had spent but I left feeling deceived and only partly satisfied. Why can't people just be honest?


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Rixiu
PonyTek
#227 - 2012-06-06 23:18:53 UTC
Because WiS was on the way when I started and the thought of watching a male from behind while playing appealed less than watching a female from behind... granted it was all for nothing...
Raile Hawkeyes
Ministry of War
Amarr Empire
#228 - 2012-06-07 00:09:31 UTC
I agree with the above statement.

The best answer for those asking this question is "If I have to spend money playing a game, I wont spend it looking at a guy's ass"

Touche
Aesheera
Doomheim
#229 - 2012-06-07 00:15:08 UTC
Some men find it hard to feel attached to a male avatar for multiple years.

So that clarifies, justifies why the females are chosen.

- I think my passion is misinterpreted as anger sometimes. And I don't think people are ready for the message that I'm delivering, and delivering with a sense of violent love.
Schmacos tryne
Norsk Testosteron
#230 - 2012-06-07 01:25:06 UTC
Tippia wrote:
…and while we're at it. Real men wear pink.


I'm sorry, I am not sure what your definition of "real men" is. Real men implies there is something like unreal men. Please, elaborate?
Selinate
#231 - 2012-06-07 01:26:38 UTC
Schmacos tryne wrote:
Tippia wrote:
…and while we're at it. Real men wear pink.


I'm sorry, I am not sure what your definition of "real men" is. Real men implies there is something like unreal men. Please, elaborate?


Women in drag.
Schmacos tryne
Norsk Testosteron
#232 - 2012-06-07 01:27:47 UTC
Personally I think it is great that so many chooses to play with female avatars.

It's like this one time I was watching my wife on all four scrubbing the toilet... It felt so... right......

Made me happy that someone goes through this trouble to make me happy. Just like people making female avatars (not the ugly ones though).
Schmacos tryne
Norsk Testosteron
#233 - 2012-06-07 01:29:05 UTC
Selinate wrote:
Schmacos tryne wrote:
Tippia wrote:
…and while we're at it. Real men wear pink.


I'm sorry, I am not sure what your definition of "real men" is. Real men implies there is something like unreal men. Please, elaborate?


Women in drag.


So Transtesticles / Transformers or what you want to call them is your definition of real men...

Cool.
Jiska Ensa
Estrale Frontiers
#234 - 2012-06-07 01:52:51 UTC
Three of my characters are male, 4 are female. The next one I make will likely be male. Just the way it happened to work out. I don't see what the big deal is. If more than say 10% of the eve playerbase were actually female (some of them play as male btw) it might actually matter, but as it is do we reallywant 90% of all the characters in eve to be male? There's over a million characters the last time I checked (if you count alts on the same account, inactive accounts, etc)

And keep in mind CCP went and made every avatar look identical, so having a little variety is a good thing.
Ptraci
3 R Corporation
#235 - 2012-06-07 03:05:57 UTC
Because when I started playing EVE, the male avatar graphics were disgustingly ugly. Plus I like looking at a female toon much more than a male toon.
Mallak Azaria
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#236 - 2012-06-07 03:42:38 UTC
Women won't talk to me or touch me irl, so I made one & pretend it's my girlfriend while playing.

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VeiledFlare
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#237 - 2012-06-07 05:02:40 UTC  |  Edited by: VeiledFlare
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


Simple answer for me. I signed up for a trial, my young daughter was sitting on my knee when I was rolling a character and she chose it. As I'm not in the slightest repressed, comfortable with my sexuality and look good in heels I decided to stick with it.

Three of my characters are males. One is a huge dreadlocked black guy with googly eyes, one a tired looking old baldy fella with steel plates in his head and another a slick looking Gallente bloke who you wouldn't leave your mum/sister alone with. Non of them in the slightest representative of my real life self except the male appendage in their pants...

Actually Veiled looks quite like a femme version of me circa 1983 but the 80s was a strange decade. Shocked

Who cares why people choose their avatar as long as they're happy with it... Smile
Kijo Rikki
Killboard Padding Services
#238 - 2012-06-07 05:26:01 UTC
Selinate wrote:
Schmacos tryne wrote:
Tippia wrote:
…and while we're at it. Real men wear pink.


I'm sorry, I am not sure what your definition of "real men" is. Real men implies there is something like unreal men. Please, elaborate?


Women in drag.


I figured there were imaginary men that could be defined by "i".

You make a valid point, good Sir or Madam. 
Herzog Wolfhammer
Sigma Special Tactics Group
#239 - 2012-06-07 06:03:36 UTC
I do have a female alt on the same account. Created her a long time ago to check out the new character creator and see if my girlfriend would be interested in the game. I must admit that from the WiS angle, she's more pleasing to look at. My portrait looks like Snape but in the CQ I look like a cross between some skinny emo boy and Peewee Herman.

If there is expanded gameplay in the stations whereby "space business" and "station business" mesh or collide, I might use "her" for stations.

For now she's just gank bait and a pile of female frozen corpses in the hangar don't feel as strange as male ones.

(just saying)

Bring back DEEEEP Space!
Terajima Kazumi
Perkone
Caldari State
#240 - 2012-06-07 06:23:39 UTC  |  Edited by: Terajima Kazumi
I am not the character that I play, so the notion that there should exist some correlation between the character's identity and my own does not logically follow. It is no stranger to play a game as a character of the opposite sex than it is to read a novel narrated in the first person by a character of the opposite sex,

I wonder, do you also find it strange to play a character that has different eye color/hair color/skin color/facial features/body type/etc than your own?