Got the idea of posting this when I watched this YouTube video that talks about reasons men love playing as girls.

Why do you do it?
Are there more than one reason?
What do you enjoy about it the most?

  • Tlaloc_Temporal
    13·
    6 months ago

    My favorite reason is seeing women in roles not explicitly written for women. Either it helps me reframe what women can be (reframing being a great reason to read stories anyway) or it points out how hilariously coded those roles are.

    My second favorite reason is about playing something I am not, and examining how that changes my outlook and decisions. It’s the same reason I want to play as a robot, or an alien, or a golem, or a dwarf, or whatever else.

    Lastly, but maybe most poignantly, is women tend to have more varied depictions than men. There are far too many depictions of men that are brutish, boisterous, and warlike, which I am extremely not, and usually don’t have any want to play as. Games that give you a character creator are way better in this respect, and I’m much closer to 50/50 male/female characters in those.

    • bermuda@beehaw.orgEnglish
      3·
      6 months ago

      Agree with the varied depictions. I did two playthroughs of cyberpunk (before phantom liberty) and female V says similar lines but in such different tones and much more expressive. I.e. when I pick an aggressive dialogue option it sounds like she’s more devious where male V is more of a brute. Stuff like that.

    • IHadTwoCows@lemm.ee
      2·
      6 months ago

      I also do not like the way men are portayed in games, though Kyle Katarn was reasonable. Guys like Dwayne Johnson and Jason Mamoa do not intimidate me; they are actors selling their body as a marketable image.

      I usually play as a woman if possible because I get to watch a fine ass walking around. The developers know.