Quote Originally Posted by sagacious View Post
When I first started playing MMO's (star trek online) I started out playing males but quickly changed to female because it felt weird dressing them and watching them from behind (0.0) I realized I smiled a lot when I dressed my female non-modestly (o.o) and watched her from behind because it felt normal and still does. Problems came from other players(males) who ask me why I play female characters and I replied, love watching them from behind and dressing them up non-modestly. I love kicking ass with my beautiful female (Angelina Jolie - tomb raider) character. They called me homophobic and harassed me continually and made cat calls. I quit playing that game and started playing this one where 1/2 the player base's characters are female .... Thank you ffxiv
I absolutely get this.
I played STO from it's beta days, and I absolutely get where you're coming from. That community used to be pretty ok, but it degenerated over the last 5 years into a toxic hellscape it is today. It's part of the reason why I left there to come to 14. Carin-Eri can attest to that! (Hi Carin! :P). That game always had an element of badness in the community, but the decent folks left over the years, leaving behind the morons and the mass of people who don't talk there.
These days, it's rare to see anyone talk in that game, and if they do it's toxic, hateful BS meant to provoke people.

I started off playing a male character there, but the character models for males in that game just look...off. They look weird and I found it near impossible to get a character that looked somewhat normal! The female character models just worked better. It was actually the first time I ever played a female character by choice!