Forums » RP Discussion » Feelings Towards People RPing the opposite gender?

^^^^^SAME^^^^^

For the longest time, I've avoided playing females for the same reason. I enjoy drawings girls, but for when it comes to develop rp characters, I usually have a harder time designing and developing female ones than males. Most times, I feel also that they are either too plain or that I give them better qualities and more likable traits than to my male characters (not that those are precisely lambs of God either...but I feel that I make women too idealistic, when I strongly prefer notoriously flawed characters in general). Lately I've tried to get out my comfort zone and force myself to do more femmes, and I'm actually kind of happy with how some of them, like Maria and Yaritza came out!. But yeah, for the longest time I've been an all male rpyer.

As for people complaining about it, I myself haven't faced it. Most forums I've been at either: a_My partners already knew I was a female before we even considered RPrying, or b_People just assumed I was a male and I didn't care enough to correct them, or wanted to see how long would it take them to notice.

The idea of anyone complaining about what you choose to rp as is idiotic. What, then I should complain ifabout your character is a dog but you aren't a dog owner? Or maybe because your character is an angel, and you aren't one yourself? How dare you! Outrageous!...Be smart, people, RP in harmony. And if you want ooc romance, just head out ur house and met someone IRL, for Christ's sake.

I got no reason to care about people who RP as the opposite gender. I sometimes do so, but I'm not great at it (lmao).

I find this question confusing on my end, since I don't really identify as either-or (I'm genderqueer, biologically female). Anywho, I don't really think about gender too much when creating a character to roleplay with. I just slap on whatever sounds good at the time when initially creating them, and that's what sticks. My most developed character is male, but I have several well-developed male and female characters in my repertoire, not all of them listed on RPR.

I am fine with it as long it's done well and both parties research their characters if canon or fleshed out if they are OCs. I have seen too many players harass people who RP the opposite gender and give monologues how it is "Wrong".

So I am fine with what people RP. As long they are not doing it to be creeps.

I feel more comfortable RPing male characters, it's more interesting for me, I'm better at it, and people often think I'm a male until I tell them otherwise. I do have female characters as well, and some of them are very well developed (one for certain), yet they don't inspire me that much, and I often struggle thinking of interesting situations to put them in. In real life, I've always been sort of a tomboy, so, maybe, that's the explanation.