Why are prople so Triggered...

[Orablast]

One day my wife caught me in Lyhe Mheg running along the bridge and frolicking in the grass. She said that the other day, a male character was doing the same thing, and she figured it must have been played by a female IRL, that is, until she saw me doing it

[Bright-Flower]

I've never encountered anyone being upset or triggered about me playing female characters. And this goes all the way back to WoW in 2005, to me jumping into FFXIV mid HW to today. I don't doubt there are some people out there bothered by it, but it's not a prevalent feeling in my experience.

[RitsukoSonoda]

Hoomans are silly.
Medical procedures allow them to change gender IRL and they're still agonizing over people playing a different gender character in a video game...
I should make fantasia IRL and sell them... then watch the world unravel... >.>

[DumdogsWorld]

Hoomans are silly.
Medical procedures allow them to change gender IRL and they're still agonizing over people playing a different gender character in a video game...
I should make fantasia IRL and sell them... then watch the world unravel... >.>

On a side note, I feel like it's worth mentioning that gender (like many other things in life) is really one of those things that everybody defines slightly differently in their own heads.

Some people feel that it's an identity thing. Others feel that it's strictly tied to your DNA (which obviously can't be changed).

Honestly, the best thing here is for everybody to do what they want and not care what others think. If somebody's having a brain aneurysm because hEy! YoU'rE nOt A gIrL iRl!, then that should be a red flag anyway. Last I checked, your IRL gender doesn't affect your character stats or comprehension of game mechanics. If they realize that too, then why do they care?

[Allooutrick]

Hoomans are silly.
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I should make fantasia IRL and sell them... then watch the world unravel... >.>

That stuff would need to be guarded about as closely as nuclear launch codes. The world would unravel in more ways than one if organized crime obtained something like that.

[Gemina]

"Actually, asking me about my trigger warnings is a trigger brah..
I feel traumatized brah..
and now I'm tweeting about you brah..
and now you're trending brah..
and now you're life is over brah..."

[Vahlnir]

People can play as whatever character they want.



Seriously, who cares? I've been everything from a catgirl to Hrothgar at some point or another. My IRL gender is irrelevant. I just play what I like.

[Jybril]

People can play as whatever character they want.



Seriously, who cares? I've been everything from a catgirl to Hrothgar at some point or another. My IRL gender is irrelevant. I just play what I like.

But apparently some folks do according to this here troll topic lol.

[Theodric]

I think most people are being pretty reasonable about it. A lot of players aren't bothered by such things so long as there's no creepiness or active deception involved - but in situations where there is, raised eyebrows are to be expected.

[Windwalker]

Some people play the opposite gender for eye candy, others enjoy Roleplaying as themselves. Im a dude irl and enjoy playing dudes in games, roleplay wise. Its a nice escape from an otherwise boring and grey real life. I rarely play females, unless its games like Blood Rayne, Drakan, Tomb Raider...