I prefer male roleplay partners!
I prefer female roleplay partners!
I couldn't care less/Idgaf
I've noticed that in several ads, people are asking for writing partners of a specific gender and find myself wondering why.
While I can certainly understand the need for a specific *character* gender in a certain roleplay, I do not understand why the gender of the actual person behind the char does matter to some people and I would like to learn more about this. I have never encountered this before so I am really curious.
Being female myself, for example, I vastly prefer playing males, because I am not content with the way my females turn out and my male chars are generally well liked. Nobody ever saw my gender as a reason to play or not to play with me, with some people I played for month, before they actually asked me that question - if they ever did.
Please, good people of the Roleplayers Guild, enlighten my naive self!
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Don't care one bit what another players gender is so long as you play the character well. Personally find it to be a complete non-issue and dont really know what would make it an issue to some, heh.
Also only really seen that kind of thing in 1x1 interest checks(Not that everyone in 1x1 is like that, just the only place shes seen it personally), someone only wanting to have males write males and vice versa. Never really noticed that kind of thing in the group RP intchecks
First off I'd like to say that the use of gender is not what people are intending it for, gender refers to masculinity, femininity, and androgenous, which is something people compare to male and female but it can easily be switched. Also I agree why should it matter, we're all using our imaginations anyway and when there is a character in play the person playing it shouldn't neccessarily be who we are thinking about, we should be focused on the kind of character that our character is interacting with. Maybe people who want to rp with a certain kind of person affects the way the story goes or what kind of story is played but then again everyone has their own reasons. Theres my two cents take it however you will.
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There's only one genre in which it ought to potentially have any bearing: romance. Gender and sexuality and the like are touchy topics for some people, with very firmly placed barriers around their comfort zone, and that's okay. If people aren't comfortable with roleplaying romantic things with someone of particular sex, so be it, that's their choice to make. In a perfect internet world there would also be a firm barrier between character and player, but that just doesn't work for some people. Seeing as romance is the main genre played in the 1x1 section, or at least it looks that way based off of the interest checks, it's kind of understandable that people ask specifically that their prospective RP partners be a specific sex. Asking for a specific player sex in non-romance roleplays is kind of silly, but I've never seen it done.
Anyway, I've never used the 1x1 section of the forum, and any romance that occurs with my characters is a natural byproduct of interaction rather than the goal of the RP. I don't really care what set of genitals the person controlling another character happens to have, even in the case of such romantic side plots. Also, I'm a guy and I sometimes play female characters who might potentially get into some romantic entanglements with other characters, so it'd be rather hypocritical of me to think it's not okay for other people to do. I'm able to put up that barrier between character and player, so it has no impact on me. It might make a difference if I were to do a roleplay focused on romance, but for now I have to go with the "I don't give a fuck" answer.
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You'll only ever come across this problem in the 1x1 section. It seems some romance-oriented 1x1's are made up of people who associate the roleplayer they're with a bit too closely with the character they play (not all, but some) and in those cases, I guess a strait male who walks into a romance 1x1 wanting to RP with a female might find it a bit weird if that female character is actually played by a male. Under the mindset that it's the roleplayer they're in a romantic relationship with, rather than the characters (and sadly I have seen some people in this mindset), I can see where a female character played by a male could almost be the equivalent of, say... a trap. *shrugs*
But again, I bet you'll really only see this problem in romance roleplays- so 1x1's mainly. Anywhere else? I don't think you'll come across the issue.
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The gender of the roleplayer themself I don't care a bit. As for characters I don't mind playing as men, but I don't like playing the "manly man" character for sure.
Nope. I never did understand why some people make it a big deal.
I mostly live the 1x1 section and I see those 'looking for male' and 'female only' all the time, though it's not always clear if they mean the player or the character. I tend to avoid anything that implies my real-life gender matters. Even if it fits, I find it a well, little creepy I guess? As if there is not that much of a difference between game and reality. To me it feels a little like it's just one step before 'I only do romance rps with people I find attractive irl'. Sometimes I wish it was clearer what they refer to, since I have no problem playing male characters but am not male myself.
Same here
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