[quote=Lugubrious]
It's somewhat of a convention, actually. Age denotes experience, but people don't like playing as old women or writing for them most of the time. As such, men are allowed to be old -writing for an older man can be harder since I'm betting a greater portion of RPguild users aren't all that old, making playing as one a challenge and a denotation of mastery- but women aren't.
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Huh, how about that!