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thread: 2005-03-15 : Cross-gender Play

On 2005-03-16, Meguey wrote:


1.) I've never really seen a very convincing portrayal of a woman by a guy at any of the gaming tables I've sat down at.

And yet that's not a criticism I've ever had in playing hundreds of male characters of all types, nor even a concern, really. Why is that?

Probably it points back to culture, and the overwhelming availability I have to diverse male characters in books, TV, etc. vs. the relatively lesser availablity of female characters to a male gamer. Part of this is clearly about what we read or have read to us as kids: all the Pooh characters except Kanga are male, yet I know all the stories because my mother read them to me. How many men here read as a child or had read to them as a child 'Little Women' and 'Little House on the Prairie' and 'Anne of Green Gables'? And why am I not reading them to my sons? (Ok, the answer to that last one is: we have read Little House, and the others are on the shelf to read this coming winter, when Elliot's old enough to follow them.)



 

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