Quote Originally Posted by TarynH View Post
But in all seriousness... Would it be so awful to play a female character? Why does it have to be male? Does it have to be male to be good, fun, strong, aesthetically appealing? Your goal is equality, I'm sure, but there's a hypocritical base to your argument.
Haven't seen a satisfying enough (for me) answer to this, so I'll provide one. I'm a guy irl. I like my characters being representations of myself. So I play male characters. My current one is kind of an exception, in that I don't see myself as him. He's more eye candy for me. Oh, that's my second reason that I almost never play female characters in MMOs. I like dudes. If I make a character for eye candy purposes, he's going to be a man.