Player-avatar similarities

[Atoli]

I've only encounter a small handful of players that play the gender they are irl. I've always asked and the most popular response is "why would I wanna stare at a guys butt all day?"

That may be true for guys, but pretty much every female player except for very rare exceptions does play as a female ingame, too. I've been playing MMOs for 10+ years and I never once thought of my character's butt o-O
I think the latent homophobia present in many males make them overly concious about the lovely behinds of their male characters..
Like "I'm not gay! I don't like to stare at a catboy's butt!" xD

when I play a male, I create them as tall as I am, so 7ft... So I play only roes, Au Ra and Elezens =(
It's not something I do for them to look like me, it's Just... I'm more used to being taller. It feels weird when I play a male, to whom I identify more, but who is as small as everybody else... It's for my comfort rather than appearance x)

I like you We are the same, just different in that you are tall and I am short xD
No, but seriously, height is a huge part of how we experience everyday life. So it totally makes sense to be uncomfortable with having to look up to everyone or have trouble reaching something when you are used to be taller than everyone else in RL.

[CosmicKirby]

I like you We are the same, just different in that you are tall and I am short xD
No, but seriously, height is a huge part of how we experience everyday life. So it totally makes sense to be uncomfortable with having to look up to everyone or have trouble reaching something when you are used to be taller than everyone else in RL.

Weird. I'm well above average height IRL, (6'6") And I like playing lalafells and short races just to be short. Being short is rad. You don't stand out in a crowd and people don't assume you're important or cool.

[Atoli]

Being short is rad. You don't stand out in a crowd and people don't assume you're important or cool.

Well as someone who is small in rl, I agree with the above statement xD
But really, I can only speak from experience. I tried to play as a really pretty Elezen lady before. NOT looking up to others felt SO unnatural and weird and I dropped the race within two days.