Gay or not Gay?? males playing female toonsFollow

Hmm, well as any one who has read my posts over the past couple of years would know I am a "mature" male, who by coincidence as much as anything ended up with a couple of female characters. One of whom is now at a highish level.

I have a good ingame friend (also somewhat aged) who, due to some guild bulletin board posts, I happen to know looks remarkabely like Gerry Garcia. (If you know what Gerry Garcia of Greatful Dead fame looked like in his later years.)

He has recently taken to calling me "hun" (in game of course), I have to admit it startled me the first time, had me wondering if he had somehow forgotten who I was, or was pulling my leg perhaps.

Now I just chuckle and bat my eyelashes at him.

If you have problems with players who RP their characters, then suck it up and move on. If you see a male character try to court with a female character--or vice versa--then don't fret about it. It's called RP'ing!

I don't like the "hate speech" either. In fact, it's not encouraged in the Soldiers of Tunare guild in Terris-Thule.

Aeleni, who is not often spoken of within the Fearnought family is as hard as nails.

Some might even say a veritable nut cracker

Whereas Celeni has become moderately famous for her healing ways, Aeleni would rather crack you across the back of the head with her Staff of the Earthcrafter.

Typical redhead in fact.

Since my most used hotbutton was a social makro that did for people who inspected me:
"Hey what are YOU staring at?"
/snarl

AND I acted on FV as I do here - I was seldom called "hun", "sweetheart" or hugged *lol*

Compared to that the roleplay of RL males playing a female toon is called "gay" quite often I played my gal certainly very "lesbian" *lol*

But with RL females no one minds what they do - funny though.

My apology does not mean I changed my opinion about the subject in question.

My apology was intended to help us move on from this subject on to more interesting things about EQ. Personally, people who are gay and insist on being treated as a minority group are highly offensive. Being gay is not something you can't change. It is a lifestyle choice. Being black or hispanic is something that cannot be changed. I left a guild because a young person was making disparaging comments about hispanics because I said "Hola" in guild chat. My spouse happens to be both hispanic and black. So after cautioning this person several times about his nasty hateful speech, I took great offense at this little person's comments and left the guild. I felt if there were people like that in this particular guild, then I wanted no part of it. While leaving the guild might seem a little extreme to some, you had to have been there to see what exactly was said. Highly offensive things were said in guild chat. Many officers were present and none said anything in guild chat to discourage the speech.
My point is that I am not the biggot that some seem to think. I just think that gays are quite mixed up and to be pitied.

As I have said before, my main is a 50th level female Paladin, I am male. I'm not gay, I just like to roleplay different characters. Most of my other toons are male, because that is what I had in mind for them when I made the character. It's just that simple. I enjoy roleplaying, and the bigger the challenge, the better for me.

So here is my most recent post on this subject, I am sure I will get flamed on this post as well. At least I am not calling people all sorts of nasty names like Leiany's buddy Zaphado was.
Just kidding, Leiany about Zaphado being your buddy.

Edited, Mon Feb 2 07:42:03 2004 by Vaanan

does playing as male/female have any effect on the gameplay itself? e.g. fewer hitpoints/lower max strength for females traded off with more mana/faster recovery rate/more stamina maybe???

Although I disagree with Vaanan, as a gay male, I will give him several points for being extremely adult and professional in expressing his viewpoints. It is a common societal misperception that being homosexual is a lifestyle choice, an act that a person consciously makes. For the record being homosexual is genetic and can normally be traced within the family tree. It is also not uncommon that it skips a generation.

This forum is about EQ and this subject matter has been pretty well talked to death. Time to get on with other matters.... I would invite Vaanan and any other interested parties to do a little library research on the subject. You seem to be a highly intellegent and introspective individual. Some of the research may surprise you.

Thx Vanaan

Edited, Tue Feb 10 02:23:40 2004 by Leiany

Edited, as requested.



Edited, Wed Feb 4 22:37:32 2004 by Vaanan

Get a copy and start playing -otherwise you'd be just like a catholic priest doing a study on the sexuality of married couples *lol*

please do take this personal and stop answering in such a retarded fashion. If you haven't got more to counter my arguments than this kind of there's-always-an-exception-to-the-rule ******** you better return to doing research on "Bob the Builder".

BTW I don't care in what a perverted corner of the world you live and what your fellow creeps there do in their spare time.