Gay or not Gay?? males playing female toonsFollow

I vote Gay!!!!!

If I see a woman in Everquest, I like to think it is a woman playing the toon. Otherwise I think you may have issues, not nessesarily gay, maybe envy, who is to say. I do think there is something slightly off about the whole thing. I tend to kiss women characters in game to show appreciation, is that why you play a female character??? Only you know for sure????? Ever been curious?

There are plenty of very masculine guys who play female toons simply because they like to look at them

As a female who only plays female toons, that doesn't bother me, as most of them are obviously males behind the toon. What I find disturbing is males who deliberately try to act like females, either because they think it will make them more popular or because they enjoy a laugh at the reactions of male players.

Anyway, SoE should allow sex changes for a fee!!

i always play felmale looking character, i don't act or say i'm a femele. it's just better eye candy for us and others seeing us. and the main thing to remember. is this is JUST A GAME not real life, so who cares, unless your trying to pick someone up? which in it's self is weird as i'm sure 80-90% of players are male, and most likly between the ages of 10-20. i'm old but still a kid at heart. really in a bad mode today best computer of three i own fried motherboard, and no warranty. other parts seem ok. but now i have to use a P4 1.6 and a P3 550MHz good graphis but slower the P4 2.4... :-( sorry just sad had to complain...

Well personally I dont mind, I'd choose a female toon in any case because the male ones just aren't as appealing. Look at the Half-Elf cladly dressed in bright red and than at her male counterpart in that LAME green/brown pyamas.

And after running behind Lara Crofts *** in 5 episodes of TR who would blame someone for just continuing that on EQ ;)

In retrospect, this is an easily answered thing.
Are you attracted to men sexually? No? Then he's wrong.

As a gay male I take GREAT offense to this conversation thread. What gender you decide to play you character has no bearing on your sexual orientation. This is a role playing game and men and women alike may enhance their acting skills, and actually learn a little something about life through the interaction with others.

Get out of that dark, stagnant dungeon that you call your mind and open it to new ideas and concepts. Perhaps roleplaying a female character will help you understand the opposite sex better and improve real life interactions with women.

And for the record....there is absolutely nothing wrong with being gay. Gay men play male characters exclusively as well. Just because you're communicating with a male toon doesn't mean the person role playing the character isn't gay. Society and times are changing and I wouldn't be so quick and flippant to use the term gay in a derogatory fashion. Therer are plenty of adults playing this game that have been out of the closet for decades.

This makes a lot of sense. Really, how many hours per week are you looking at your toons backside? ;) And the fact that many guys have a natual tendency to try impressing girls with gifts and such is an added bonus of choosing chick.

But throwing the "reason for playing a girl" out the window for a moment let me pose this. What if that hot looking high elf enchanter (who just saved the lives of everyone in your party) turned out to be gay? Would you never again group with him/her? Would you make fun of him/her, telling everyone you spoke with that so-and-so is really a guy AND gay? Would you dislike this person?

If a person's sexual preference bothers you in-game you have to ask yourself why! I personally couldn't care less if someone is gay or not... As long as a player is not purposely contributing to the untimely death of my toon then (s)he has good faction with me. ;)

and why is this? noone said being gay was wrong, the poor guy was just mis-labelled...should we now not say the word "gay" and start an eq special rights campaign now like african american people did with the "n" word in the 80s? geesh, lighten up..noones trying to offend "gay america"..and wake up, your not the only people to be stereotyped hated on.

back to the matter at hand, i dont play a female toon...my ex wife started one and aftere we divorced i tried to, but couldnt. guys would flirt with me and I just couldn't relate to a woman character like i could playing a male one.

if you play a female and your female cool, if you do and your male so what, if you are gay and do whoop-dee-doo, if you are gay and dont then yee haw..who really cares?

I can feel your pain if your trying to play and someone keeps calling you a "***" when your straight...that would get pretty annoying. they are probably either 12 or are still living at home with their parents and giving people wedgies. just move on and realize the stupid people in the world eventually figure out how to play video games unfortunately.

this is a mmoRPG(role playing game) if you have ever played any pen and papper PRG then to see men playing lady toons or vis a vis would not supprise you or concern you.

heck until about 100 years ago or so ladies were NOT permitted to act. they were forbin from getting on stage and performing. that means all of the female roles were played by men. this did not make them gay, just good actors and nothing more.

its the same in EQ IMHO at least. in fact i play a wide veriaty of gender toons. my bard, cleric, and warrior are all female toons, were my nec, wiz, sham (dont play much on sham or rng) and ranger are all male toons.

its a great RP challange to play something you are not. none of us IRL are anything but human. so if you are playing a human then you are still RP the class as no one IRL can cast spells, summon bodies back from the dead(well except Christ, but he passed this world some 2K years ago) or run faster then a horse, etc.

if you are playing any other RACE in game, then you are RP as there are no such things as trolls, ogres, dwarves, elvs, etc... they dont exsist IRL so you are RP.

what is so hard to grasp that good old fassion RPers want to cross gender as a real challange. hell playing a male troll warrior is no stretch of the imagination i tell you from someone who has been RPing for over 20 years. now on the other hand RPing a female darkelf cleric is a bit more of a challange, and very rewarding when someone meets my nec for the first time and realizes its the same person behind the keys and are very confused if im male or female IRL. when ppl ask i always reply truthfuly and tell them im a guy, and that i enjoy RP and that is one thing i love about this game, and games like this one... like DAoC for example.

my des are fem. I am male. why? 3rd person view! more gay to stare at a barby male than a DE female...