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Why do Men choose Female Avatars?

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Gealbhan
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#241 - 2012-06-07 07:01:35 UTC
Yuriko Deathstrike wrote:
...

-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...


That pretty much sums up the guy playing a female toon quite nicely, ty. Arrow
this is alt
Doomheim
#242 - 2012-06-07 07:17:32 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Maybe it's just my upbringing in an older and now outdated world but it just seems to me like playing dress up on a Saturday night and trolling the seamier parts of town.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

They are gay.
Onyx Nyx
Trillium Invariant
Honorable Third Party
#243 - 2012-06-07 07:36:15 UTC
Plenty of males with male character in this thread that not only reveals having their heart broken by males playing female characters, but also how butthurt they are over the fact.

L O L

But I got a question for the males playing male characters. Suffer from inferiority complex much?

I kill kittens, and puppies and bunnies. I maim toddlers and teens and then more.

  • Richard (http://www.lfgcomic.com/)
Uinuva Karma
Doomheim
#244 - 2012-06-07 07:45:44 UTC
ITT:

"Why do men like women"


/ thread




Captain Kirk didn't stay in hisec. 
Sirinda
Ekchuah's Shrine Comporium
#245 - 2012-06-07 07:50:26 UTC
Well, if I'm gonna get captain's quarters to stare at my toon's ass, they had better be female.
Zora'e
#246 - 2012-06-07 08:01:35 UTC
I purchased this character because it had skills I was interested in having. It's gender didn't matter to me.

On the other side of that. MMORPG = Many Men Online Role Playing Girls.

That tired old meme has been around since at least Everquest 1 and probably before that. Oh and btw, your excuse "maybe it's just my upbringing in an older and outdated world" doesn't wash, because for as long as I have played MMO's (Beta Tested EQ1) there have always been guys that rolled female toons. Always. I've rolled female toons in several different MMO's and i'm likely older than you (unless you are older than 48).

I think the real problem is, it just rubs your CONSERVATIVE RELIGIOUS sensibilities wrong and you feel the need to intrude those sensibilities into others lives as if you had the right to tell them what was good, bad, ok or not ok for them to do when in fact, you have no such rights at all.

So TLDR: Don't like it, too bad. Get over yourself. It happens, and will continue to happen, so Suck it up. Cupcake.

I won't say you are stupid, but you're not exactly on the Zombie menu either.
Xuse Senna
Nocturnal Romance
Cynosural Field Theory.
#247 - 2012-06-07 08:18:34 UTC
I like women xD Lol...

http://img152.imageshack.us/img152/7501/mindgamesceptionfinaldr.jpg
Thabiso
Merchants of the Golden Goose
#248 - 2012-06-07 08:22:15 UTC
In WoW and DD:O I tend to play feemale characters; having to stare at the same butt running around in a grindfest for days on end just works better when it's a nice firm female butt.

In Eve, there is nothing to stare at (doing captains quaters made the fans on my computer run so fast I had to tie the machine down to avoid liftoff).


Caveat:
I do have a female alt, but she is purely for scaming lonely internet guys.
Breezly Brewin
Vril Metaphysics Society
#249 - 2012-06-07 08:36:30 UTC  |  Edited by: Breezly Brewin
because if men didn't play females there would barely be any female toons.

who wants to be just another swinging 8=======D

EDIT: Almost forgot - females have better stats^^
Zora'e
#250 - 2012-06-07 08:45:15 UTC  |  Edited by: Zora'e
Myself, I am perfectly secure in my sexuality and am not emotionally threatened in any way shape or form by a guy running a female avatar. Or taking that to a RW point, I am not threatened by LGBT individuals wanting to have the same legal rights of Marriage as I enjoy with my lovely wife.

I think the ones who have such major problems with it are the people who are insecure with their sexuality and feel threatened somehow because a guy runs a female character. I believe they are frightened of the possibility they may find themselves attracted to someones personality in game and then find out they were attracted to another Man. This of course terrifies them.

I just look at them, and feel pity for the smallnes of their souls.

P.s. The Character Avatar is not the person. Stop thinking it is.

~Z

I won't say you are stupid, but you're not exactly on the Zombie menu either.
Celeste Taylor
Ruby Dynasty
#251 - 2012-06-07 08:45:21 UTC
Terajima Kazumi wrote:
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?


I think that the players here who have issues, internalize their characters too much and don't have any alts. To them their character is them hence the confusion.

Indeed most of my video game characters have different eye/hair/skin/facial/body/etc. from me since they are not me. They also have different moralities, and I personalities from me. I also refer to my characters in the third person and will say "I'm going to check up on Morollan" or "Celeste bought a new ship today" rather than saying "I was killed today" or "I stole a peasant's horse today." These events are not happening to me, but to my characters who are still as dear to me as any other fictional character. If anything my characters are like my children, and I have actually heard a few authors say the same thing about their characters.
Alice Saki
Nocturnal Romance
Cynosural Field Theory.
#252 - 2012-06-07 08:50:33 UTC
All My Milkshake brings the boys to the Yard?

FREEZE! Drop the LIKES AND WALK AWAY! - Currenly rebuilding gaming machine, I will Return.
TravisWB
#253 - 2012-06-07 18:49:51 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


Eh, your firt mistake is the use of the word MEN. The majority of the player base here are onanistic puberty age BOYS.

Just look at the 'female' avatars. Most of them are rediculous caricutures.

Then figure that of that majority, most are the priveliged children of the effette European Socialist countries.

No surprise that so many of them pretend to be girls, it is closer to real life for them than you would care to think, I'm sure.
Lili Lu
#254 - 2012-06-07 19:01:07 UTC
TravisWB wrote:
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


Eh, your firt mistake is the use of the word MEN. The majority of the player base here are onanistic puberty age BOYS.

Just look at the 'female' avatars. Most of them are rediculous caricutures.

Then figure that of that majority, most are the priveliged children of the effette European Socialist countries.

No surprise that so many of them pretend to be girls, it is closer to real life for them than you would care to think, I'm sure.

Lol Oh Twavis! Your such a battle hardened capitalist american manly man among boys!
Onyx Nyx
Trillium Invariant
Honorable Third Party
#255 - 2012-06-07 19:41:27 UTC
Lili Lu wrote:
TravisWB wrote:
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


Eh, your firt mistake is the use of the word MEN. The majority of the player base here are onanistic puberty age BOYS.

Just look at the 'female' avatars. Most of them are rediculous caricutures.

Then figure that of that majority, most are the priveliged children of the effette European Socialist countries.

No surprise that so many of them pretend to be girls, it is closer to real life for them than you would care to think, I'm sure.

Lol Oh Twavis! Your such a battle hardened capitalist american manly man among boys!


Who is a tad ridiculous (look, TravisB, this is how you spell the word!)

I kill kittens, and puppies and bunnies. I maim toddlers and teens and then more.

  • Richard (http://www.lfgcomic.com/)
Djana Libra
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#256 - 2012-06-07 19:48:54 UTC
I really wonder why this thread comes by like every year

Who even cares about gender in a space sci-fi game?
Kijo Rikki
Killboard Padding Services
#257 - 2012-06-07 19:51:09 UTC
Djana Libra wrote:
I really wonder why this thread comes by like every year

Who even cares about gender in a space sci-fi game?


The guys who hit on what they thought was a hot piece, but discovered they were carrying a piece. The trauma must be pretty intense to spawn some of these responses.. Lol

You make a valid point, good Sir or Madam. 
THE L0CK
Denying You Access
#258 - 2012-06-07 19:53:50 UTC
Djana Libra wrote:

Who even cares about gender in a space sci-fi game?


THIS GUY!

Do you smell what the Lock's cooking?
Onyx Nyx
Trillium Invariant
Honorable Third Party
#259 - 2012-06-07 19:56:04 UTC
Kijo Rikki wrote:
Djana Libra wrote:
I really wonder why this thread comes by like every year

Who even cares about gender in a space sci-fi game?


The guys who hit on what they thought was a hot piece, but discovered they were carrying a piece. The trauma must be pretty intense to spawn some of these responses.. Lol


Like being friend zoned by one of those smoking hot girls you come across, only to find out moments later that she is a he.

I kill kittens, and puppies and bunnies. I maim toddlers and teens and then more.

  • Richard (http://www.lfgcomic.com/)
Kijo Rikki
Killboard Padding Services
#260 - 2012-06-07 20:19:43 UTC
Well if that ever happens I'll be glad I got friend zoned rather than admitted to the danger zone.

You make a valid point, good Sir or Madam.