NOTE:This thread was originally started by Lightman on the SRP board. I felt that it was a good topic for discussion here. The first few posts are also from the SRP board. What is your feeling?
Originally posted by Lightman
Although I am male, I have posted in a few threads on the SRP Board as a female character. These threads went fairly well, and I have quite enjoyed myself. However, I wonder if some might feel uncomfortable with this--that maybe some do not like the idea of interacting(even in RP) someone who is actually of the same gender.
I would really like to hear the general opinion on this...in order to know wether I should abstain from RP-ing as a female in future.
Originally posted by Merelan
Though I have never done this. There are several here that have. Not sure they have made it open so won't mention names. They have done well. It shows a great imagination to do so. Creativity a must.keep it up!!! Didn't really mean that pun, did I?
Originally posted by Amadeus
To be honest, I usually start out with a fear, or the assumption, that the girl is actually a pimply-faced adolescent guy and it is a nice surprise when I am wrong.I have no idea how often I have been completely fooled and gone to the end of a story line with someone who was actually a male. And it doesn't matter. The only times it was really offensive was when it became so pornographic and ugly and obvious that it was an unimaginative male pretending to be female. That makes it ugly and insulting and I always drop out of the story. No fun. I have played female roles myself occasionally, but only with women writing the other part. I enjoyed it very much and it was very erotic, sometimes quite beautiful. I felt a little guilty deceiving the other writer and that was uncomfortable, so I stopped doing it. That was easy because there are enough straightforward, honest female writers on the lit board to make for very great story telling and extremely good and sensual fantasy. God bless them, they are lovely, and I really love them. Thanks, Lit Ladies,
[Edited by Amadeus on 01-13-2001 at 06:37 PM]
Originally posted by Neale
I have played female characters in rpgs before, in fact I often do, as I generally play with a bunch of guys, and that is the only way to have any female characters at all. However, I don't think I would play a female in a Srpg thread, because it would be just a little weird, not to mention dishonest-if the other party did not know that I was doing so. The only way I can see that it would be 'right' is if my character was somehow transformed within the story. So long as it is in character, I would have no problems staying with the thread.
Originally posted by Phoenix
Actually I got my start in Lit as a cowriter for a female part. See my friend Asya who is the other Phoenix, got married in November of last year and as a result between planning her wedding and doing the deed she needed someone to fill in for her and naturally she chose me her roomie and best friend. Seeing the fact that I am a journalist major and actually wrote my first novel (well most of it at least), it was so obvious. Matter of fact in the superhero league thread me and Asya's style was so distinct that we decided to be two characters instead of one. As for the sexual stuff well at first it made uncomfortable but after a lil (or a lot of) research from various ladies in my life I think I can write sex for both genders. I may not do as well as others but I can be serviceable for either role. However usually I prefer to stay male though just out of the fact that well since I am male I must be used to it.
Originally posted by Hecate
I did play both, male and female roles and will continue doing so in the future... I really do not know what difference it makes since ANY character I am playing in a Role Play is unreal and not ME... so, since I can be whatever - whoever I like, I take the liberty of being a blonde, a brunette, a redhead, slim, athletic, busty - male or female...
The part in a SRP doesn't put me into any interaction with the author of any other character - it is a "writer's challenge" in my eyes, a release for my creativity, a playground for forbidden fantasies. For all I know about people I write with, the "handsome stud, age 32, dark wavy hair and piercing blue eyes" could have pimples and be just 18, or beer bellied and balding at age 75 ... as long as the writing is fun, why should I care??? It is all about taking advantage of the delightfull fantasies our minds can supply us with ...
I do admit though that it is a completely DIFFERENT MATTER to assume a knowingly fake identity when stepping out of the boundaries of the Role Play, when fiction does become a reality (or as much of it as it can be in Cyberspace) and trust is betrayed. Having said that , I would rather not "mix up" this particular topic between the role play and the general board ... there have been cases where "true identities" turned out to be fake, but hearts were broken in the process and a web of lies was spun that was not easily entagled, leave alone forgotten or forgiven.