Thread: Writing characters of the oppisite Gender...

dramamine213 said This is an interesting thing to read. While I'm a female behind the screen, I loathe playing female characters. I don't identify with being a female. Everything that feels or appears as female is normally something I avoid as it's... uncomfortable. I've always disliked women as I've grown up, even though I had a strong maternal influence as a child. There's just too much emotion and drama that seems to seep from the pores of women that just makes them a huge pain in the ass to deal with mentally. This is the sole factor as to why I don't have hardly any female friends in real life. snip Click to expand... I am the exact opposite! I feel no shame in telling BMR I want to be a girl more than anything. I don't hate my male body, I love video games and kung fu movies, and much of my time is spent thinking of throwing girls down and having my way with them. But if I could snap my fingers and change my life and history to have grown up female, and be female, I would. For many many reasons. I may be a lesbian, I'm not sure, but I would love it. I never will change, for reasons of expense, social ostracization did I spell that right? and medical. I have big heart problems, pacemaker, I think it'd just be too dangerous to have more un-needed surgery when I get them every 5 years already I play characters of both genders because I have long since given up hope of being what I really want to and made peace that I'll spend this life like this. I can still be happy, I can still enjoy my body, I just really hope there's a character select screen in Heaven. Since I don't know that there is yet, I make one here on Earth in the form of RP. It allows me to escape into that side of myself that I NEVER, EVER let out of the box IRL. The only woman who knows is the only woman I've slept with. RPing a girl is therapeutic, and even in a hetero scene with a guy I love it. I am not into yaoi, I tried forcing myself to be with a man I loved once it was a net thing, where bodies don't matter but as I suspected I couldn't, and had to stop it before it went anywhere cause it was just not me. Which, incidentally, is how I know sexual orientation to not be a choice, even though some choose to lie about theirs even to themselves. But if I am a female it's different. I could be with a guy if I had that body. I know I can love a male, just not a male body, not with this one. Wow, I'm really ranting here... but as for how I play them? The girl I'd want to be, sometimes. I pretended to be a woman online for over a decade, three years ago I would've been lying my ass off about my real self to you guys. I've grown past that, thank goodness. No one ever suspected unless I told them, after the first two years or so. So I like to think I'm pretty good at it, though my RP girls are often admittedly NOT made to be realistic. But to the original question, it depends, really, on the RP. Sometimes I play slutty ho-bags, sometimes sweet little things who get confused every time you say the word 'genitals'. But that's because my RP is WIDE and varied. I play so many different kinks and levels of sex vs. plot, it's crazy. Whether they are real, tapping into my own desires and femininity... or just from the part of my brain saturated in male chemistry... it depends on what the RP means to me. If you just want dirty sex, you get the shallow side of me that tells me I'd probably be a HORRIBLE slut if I had the female power of such easy sex. If you make it deeper, draw me in with plot and romance... you may just see a side of me that you'd be surprised at, that I don't let out often. You get out what you put in. ..... wow, that sounded slutty.....