Male and Mithra player, I think maybe FFXI put mithras as a female only race for this very reason, so males could play females and not feel pursecuted about it. In game I never mention my rl sex, and you know what, no one asks, maybe they know I am male, maybe they just don't care, maybe they are shy. If they asked I would tell the truth, and as soon as any guy makes an advance I will make sure he understands just what I am. I don't expect to get the, 'OMG, you are gay!' line from anyone old enough to shave, as for the rest, put you pimple cream on and get to school, YOU are LATE, oh wait, it is sunday, nm, just go away.
Anyways, people always assume what they see on screen is what they see in real life, well it isn't, I haven't seen to many rl women that look like mithra's, and besides, humans don't have tails and cat ears and fur!
Now I don't know what your reason is, but being a hetrosexual man I thought all the men looked, well, ugly, so I got tired of looking at them and went mithra. FFXI has way better camera system then EQ, so 99% of the time you are in 3rd person.
I don't know why they didn't just say the mithra are female only like the galka, i guess they 1) wanted a female dominated society somewhere and 2) didn't want to use the same idea. There are female only species on Earth, a type of lizard, they still need another to reproduce, but they don't mix DNA, so thier daughters are exact genetic duplicates of the mother, i.e. natural cloning. I wonder if this is how the galka really do it...actually, I don't want to know anymore.
Ok, i am gonna stop before I warp my mind and your mind anymore.
*mumbles*Two galka*shudder*