In my article on five life lessons learned, I included a paragraph that Big Bear Butt Blogger responded to an a very eloquent manner. He’s given me pause, and I want to respond to him here. This is not an argument, but more an agreement. First, here’s the paragraph with which BBBB took issue (from Lesson #4):
I’ve also met a fair share of males (I won’t say "men" because at leastone was truly just a boy) who did a reasonable job of passing asfemales. Some use the line I never accept ("If I’m going tostare at a butt for hours on end, I want it to be attractive)." Haveyou actually looked at the male NE model from behind, guys? And I’mdefinitely not buying that line when it comes to Dwarves, Trolls, andUndead. Let’s not even get started on Taurens and Orcs! I don’t haveany female characters, because I’m already as in touch with my feminineside as I need or want to be. I don’t have to demonstrate it in a game.
In rereading this paragraph, it goes off on a tangent I really had no need nor intent to follow. Frankly, it’s mostly irrelevant to the point I was trying to make. Yes, guys play girls. And girls play guys. I want to emphatically state that neither case bothers me in the least, since apparently that issue may have been in question.
I also want to clarify a couple more things BBBB touched on : First, while a lot of guys use the line about what they may be staring at for hours on end, in the final analysis, I really don’t believe that’s the main reason. After all, when I’m traipsing around Azeroth, I’m usually looking at lots of other things besides the backside of my character (the minimap, for example, gets a LOT more attention from me than my toon). Second, my point about male NE’s (and BE’s, for that matter) is that from behind, they’re about as attractive as the female of the species. (Okay, there are the ears…)
I can certainly see where my earlier comments may have been perceived as some sort of "reverse sexism" but that was neither my intent nor my belief.
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I play mostly females because for some reasons I find it easier to name female toons. Amusingly enough, when my wife was pregnant with our first child, we found common ground for a girl’s name but not for a boy. Luckily, we had a little girl, solving the issue
And of course, as a clarification on my part…. I didn’t mean for it to sound like I was teeing off on you. Everything you wrote in your 5 lessons rocked, as does most of what you write.
Sadly, instead of saying that I LIKED your post, I just wrote on the one thing that hit my hot button.
By the way, flood of posts? Grats!
I likes me a civil discourse. K says something, BBBB says I’m with you, but I gots a problem with this part here, K says yeah that didn’t come out how I wanted, thanks fer pointing it out, etc. Well handled, both of ya.
And for the record, I got a damn attractive butt.
I’m male and play a female toon, and have also used the “if I’ve got to look at something for 70 levels…” rationale. I don’t play a female toon to pretend to be female, or to get in touch with my feminine side, or to deceive tards who are looking for a WoW hookup, or because I’m gay (I’m not, for the record – not that there’s anything wrong with it…). Like BBBB I like to challenge the stereotypes a little. I play Horde, but nothing would be funnier to me than a badass gnome tank. So I play a female toon for a change of scenery and because it’s something different. I don’t teehee or /flirt or anything like that…I just send in my cat and then rain down a hail of arrows on the mobs.
Unfortunately the world still has a good quantity of misogynistic, sexist, immature knotheads who will make comments about a player based on the sex of the imaginary character they created on a videogame. ta hell with ‘em
@BBBB:
No worries, my friend–I didn’t take it that way at all. I just need to do a better job of proof-reading, to be sure I’m not just babbling off on tangents that aren’t pertinent.
@Ratshag:
Thanks! Oh…and on the butt thing–you wouldn’t object if we asked for a second opinion, right?
@Pablo:
Couldn’t have said it better myself!
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