Jack's Ghost wrote:How is it any different then people rollplaying as a system lord?
You are born male/female in reality. There's no way to avoid that.
However, System Lord is not same (it's not a gender...), it depends who you would roleplay there. If I did roleplay with Bastet, or Hathor, THEN, it would be same as that issue.
Why would people roleplay as Asgards/Replis then? Then don't even have an human host/human body!
It's again another issue. But still not the same, as it's no sex creatures.
System Lords are a fictional race. Being a guy or a girl isn't fictional. You are a male/woman in real life. You aren't SL, Asgard, Replicator, Tok'ra...in real life.
Roleplaying as Apophis, Anubis, O'neill, McKay, Hammond, Ronon...when you are a man, has nothing wrong. Because you roleplay a male character. Same for women who would use Carter, Hathor, 3rd, Teyla...or even Lois Lane (

). It's logical. They are women, they use women. Women characters are closer to women and same goes for male characters for males!
smooshable wrote:I can understand why some women might pretend to be males in a male dominated game such as this. I mean you've all been in MSN convo's or IRC when the girl joins and everyone's trying to flirt/hit on her. It must be tempting to just try and avoid it altogether in this way.
One problem, that Lois pointed out (I think she meant that)...you don't talk the same to guys and to girls. Yes, your point is right, but well some guys would talk less "respectively" to a guy than to a woman.
When you talk to a woman you are more careful with what you say!

Depends on your level of education and politeness of course...