Henkie wrote:RedQueen.exe wrote:You should probably take the troll horn off next time.At the conversation didn't get pre-enhanced by the Ministry of Love.
It is curious when people make comments like "So-and-so plays RPs the other gender amazingly well/believably", because what does that actually mean? Do they mean they play a stereotypical female/male well? I don't think there is any personality that you could definitively say belongs to someone of one gender or the other, so there really should be no difference between RP'ing a particular gender well and RP'ing well in general. You may just be playing someone whose personality doesn't fit the pattern stereotypical to their gender, but, MEN AND WOMEN LIKE THAT EXIST IN REAL LIFE TOO. lol
You read George Orwell? I love that book, he writes enchantingly well.
Stereotypes rock! Makes thinking and acting a whole lot faster. Everyone does it, let's just get it in the open and take the taboo off of it! 90% of the time stereotypes are accurate anyway...
I enjoyed it greatly. I remember liking Brave New World better, but I read BNW at a much younger age when I was less skeptical of the predictive power of those kinds of writing. I think they work better if you take them slightly more as an analogy (though perhaps a stunningly accurate one at times) than a too-literal prediction of future dystopianism. Apparently Republicans aren't a big fan though, as they set up a fact-checking operation for the Democratic convention in 2008 and called it the "Ministry of Truth" - I love those kinds of revealing mistakes. XD
And I do think the other side screws up the point of correcting stereotypes sometimes too. Stereotypes are sometimes or often (but definitely not always) true in the aggregate, but not the individual level. That is how some stereotypes BECOME stereotypes, lol. For example, there are probably certain behaviors that are displayed more often in women than in men, but that does not mean that there aren't women that act just as "masculine" as any man or men that exibit equal degrees or even just types, of "feminine" behavior.
BUT, people here are not playing an entire world of women or men, (and even if they were, there's no reason cantr women couldn't act like some subset of earth men, there have been cultures where women take on roles that are considered "male" roles in other cultures) they are playing one woman or man at a time - so there is no reason it should be any more difficult to play a character of the opposite gender than to play one of the same gender. No matter how you play them, if it fits a pattern for ANY human, you, I think, should be able to claim it is a perfectly valid and believable characterization of SOME individual of WHICHEVER gender your character happens to be.
Does that make any sense?
