Out of Pod Experience

This is a new and refreshing question that's never been posted before.

To drop the sarcasm and actually answer:

1. My husband refuses to create a female character. So even though you may be a minority you're not alone.

2. No it's not. There are plenty of straight guys with female avatars. I know of at least one straight, married man who created a character that was meant to be his ideal body type for a woman. Some guys just like the variety. I also happen to know of at least one male to female transexual who created a female avatar to represent her 'inner woman'. She was just at the beginning of the transformation process and usually went around irl as a man. I think she is attracted to women as well so I guess she's a lesbian in a (currently) man's body.

But I would guess that most men with female characters are straight.

3. See no. 2. I think there are a variety of reasons men will make female avatars. It doesn't necessarily have a deep psychological meaning.

You could also try searching the forum archives as this subject has come up repeatedly in the past. Unless you're just trolling.

Wat ?

Troll 5/10, with enough finition to be unsure if a troll.

Assuming its not, lets make a detailed answer :

People make three types of avatars :
- Those meant to represent who they are
- Those meant to represent who they want to be
- Those meant to represent who they want to play. (Which is the correct definition of an in-game avatar. In this category you will find some people who rightfully want their game to be far from their daily life. Others who just don't care.)

I'm going to assume some numbers but I believe they are close to the truth.
5% belongs to the fist (CCP devs likes to do that I noticed :D)
5% belongs to the second.
90% belongs to the third category. In this case you can say that your avatar is also a character.

So really there is no need to look for some kind of sexual orientation explaination. Other than the reasons I explained before, it also shows that for you a character is only defined by its sex. You should keep in mind that a character can be a lot more things than just its sex, especially if you want to roleplay with it. There are too many traits that can define a character, you cannot just see that its female and claim that the choice was made purely on this criteria.

For the end, fun fact :
Everyone would agree that to be entertaining, an action movie does not need to be realistic, it needs to be credible.
Thus the best film makers are those who make the most credible things, not the most realistic. By extention you can say that those people do not have a talent to picture reality, but rather a good understanding of their viewer's expectations and conception of reality.

So if you apply this to roleplay, you realise that the best roleplayers won't be the realistic ones, they will be the most credible one. And since Eve has a strong male proportion among its players, you can say that males are the most able to understand their own definition of a woman. Thus, males are technically better at roleplaying females than females. Because again it needs to be credible for the audience, not realistic. *Twisted logic*

Proud to be a G.I.R.L : Guy In Real Life

Did You know, that Polar Bears can weigh up to 1000 kilo gramms?

It's really amazing, those things can run fast as a car and can swim for several hundret miles without pause, smell prey up 30 miles aways and fertile females up 100 miles.

If one decides to kill you (I saiy killing because hunting would mean it could fail) it could rip you limb from limb before you could shout "I've got free fish in that airthight sealed barrel over there!" the bear tho would probably smell that, too.

And yet everybody loved Knut, the cuddly widdle polar bear from the zoo in Berlin.. friggin morons.

I edited my message because I wanted it to be near to the top, so I posted before having finished it. You should re read again :D

Also I could have posted with one of my male avatars if you prefer. I have strong masculine males avatar too. But actually I'd find myself more inclined for homosexuality if I was focusing myself on strong males characters, but maybe that's a wrong assumption.

And anyway homosexuality is fine, I hope you know that:

Each questionmark could be followed with a "No" to answer it.
One of my friends was playing some kind of avatar-based MMO, and said that if he had to look at an avatars behind for years, it'd better be a pretty avatar. In EVE, our avatars are our ships. Ships don't have genders (Well, excluding the Thorax hulls). Whatever our display pictures may be, and if that corresponds to whatever gender is controlling the character, is really only a picture with no significance.
I might ask "All male EVE players have neckbeards. When your avatar doesn't, does that reflect your desire to be an actual human being?" and not only make a really dumb / stereotyped premise, but also miss all the marks entirely.

I like that you need to claim that someone else is apparently closeted homosexual, as if that would make you feel better.
Do you desire to be a part of a majority all of a sudden?

Not really. More like silly and/or nonsensical question.
Good day!

So you prefer staring at a male ship's butt while playing?

HAH!

Weirdo.

On the same topic, is piloting an Avatar a sign of bestiality?

This just in, not only are Titans huge, erected, costinefficient spacepenises, the Avatar titan class is also...
THE DEVIL! Yes, the Catholic-esque faction has chained their devil and made him into a spaceship.
Piloting an Avatar will make you homosexual, bestial and a devil-worshipper.

It's almost true!

Piloting an Avatar means you might have preference for psilocybin mushrooms.

Does playing a race game means you want to be a car?
Does creating an male avatar that is not yourself make you gay? Because if you are doing that, you're creating your idealization of a male

Also, when you jerk you touch a penis, that makes you gay too

Troll

But on a serious note i am realy starting to wonder why so many people are concerned about other peoples sexual preferences
Is it seriously that important to so many people what others do sexually?

Sometimes one can wonder if we realy have come out of the dark-ages....