My unpopular opinion: Men/Women who are playing opposites are weirdos who probably shouldn’t be allowed to keep playing.
Eh why though? Roleplaying is literally acting. There’s no reason a male can not enjoy roleplaying a female charater or vice versa.
Basically you have dudes playing ladies, often for very poorly explained reasons, often the reason being “I find it gay to look at a male bum” in a crude way of expressing it.
I have -never- heard someone say this. Sure you got the Blood Elf Slutmog players, but these are rarely roleplayers, mostly “normal” cough players who do not care about the lore, immersion, story…
However that is not a good explanation, because firstly: How does it make sense? Also last I checked, you look at the back, or not even look close at your character so you aren’t really “Looking at a male bum”. Secondly, if you find “That” gay, then you most certainly must be super hayetero to play as a girly woman.
It doesn’t matter. At all. You shouldn’t care about other people’s approach to their characters. In most cases the sex of a character can determine the storyarcs and paths it will be involved in, so choosing male or female can be influenced by that, never forget that.
Speaking of which: I think it is fair to say, that unless you are some gray neutral blob who reacts to everything in a similar fashion, a sort of preconception can form when you see a player character, which leads to a shock when you find out that Dude Mc’Dudeson is actually a lady, or vice versa.
It is really fair to say that? Mhh, that’s rough. I have never felt that way when I found out that the player of a character is a different gender IRL than I assumed.
Added annoyance: "Heter’o"sexuality is apparently a no-no. Great, Blizzard wants to get rid of straightness.
Ok? Maybe leave Goldshire?
at the game, finetune our schedules, set up a whole hierarchy, go through practice runs three times a week, only so we can do the run once without failing.