Vixel
Domine Selyria
It is more of a psychological thing, and before I go further, I (as a full fledged male) started RPing a male alongside my RP debut when I was about 9 or so, the type of clueless half metagaming half OOC in IC type of RP where people try to avoid you like the plague but you don't even realize it since you're having fun simply writing stuff in your own world, you'd be just fine RPing with yourself at this point, it doesn't matter, everything shines like a golden jewel to you even the kind of RP you'd look back now and think to yourself "Did this really happen?".
As I grew more proficient, which also led me to learning about anime which quickly peaked my interest, I grew to prefere playing a female due to personal respect for the gender (I am no feminist, but I respect a female who makes herself respected (duh?)), i'd find it even hard after one year, to play a male, and yes that included more sexual content as well, I find it more enlightening than shamefull since it implied I'd have the ability to create believable to realistic content from a gender that is not mine, implying I had the knowledge/imagination to do so.
A few years later and I've been playing exclusively male, having realized that while I enjoyed the female RP, I deviated from who I really was, I grew accustomed to it to the point that if I suddently became a female IRL I'd feel like nothing changed, which didn't bother me but it made me think a little bit, until the point I realized that I had done enough as a female character to test my abilities in doing unconventional things, which led me to return to my own gender and stick to it, now not even really considering playing a female due to being comfortable with what I have.
After playing a female character for a long while and then returning to the male side for the rest of my RP career (which now spans 9 years, nothing to brag about, but simply a statement) I've come to realize it is likely for a young shy/introverted/unsecure male to play a female due to his own (pardon the word) weakness making him see himself closer to a shy woman rather than a shy man, to him most men are the kind of "alpha" thing he sees himself way bellow to.
While it is more rare to find females RPing males because it implies (generally) that the female has more of a masculine-like mindset, implying, a form of ambition, desire to build something of your own and usually, on your own, or just the idea of being physicaly equal to males for the sake of challenging them to see who can build something better.
Now, all of this is my theorizing and from my own experience, not everyone falls bellow that category, but a good amount of people I've interacted with used to or still do.
So as to the question, yes I prefere the opposite gender due to personal respect but I prefere playing my own because it allows me to express my true worth and qualities more, not to be sexist, but it is what I feel.
As I grew more proficient, which also led me to learning about anime which quickly peaked my interest, I grew to prefere playing a female due to personal respect for the gender (I am no feminist, but I respect a female who makes herself respected (duh?)), i'd find it even hard after one year, to play a male, and yes that included more sexual content as well, I find it more enlightening than shamefull since it implied I'd have the ability to create believable to realistic content from a gender that is not mine, implying I had the knowledge/imagination to do so.
A few years later and I've been playing exclusively male, having realized that while I enjoyed the female RP, I deviated from who I really was, I grew accustomed to it to the point that if I suddently became a female IRL I'd feel like nothing changed, which didn't bother me but it made me think a little bit, until the point I realized that I had done enough as a female character to test my abilities in doing unconventional things, which led me to return to my own gender and stick to it, now not even really considering playing a female due to being comfortable with what I have.
After playing a female character for a long while and then returning to the male side for the rest of my RP career (which now spans 9 years, nothing to brag about, but simply a statement) I've come to realize it is likely for a young shy/introverted/unsecure male to play a female due to his own (pardon the word) weakness making him see himself closer to a shy woman rather than a shy man, to him most men are the kind of "alpha" thing he sees himself way bellow to.
While it is more rare to find females RPing males because it implies (generally) that the female has more of a masculine-like mindset, implying, a form of ambition, desire to build something of your own and usually, on your own, or just the idea of being physicaly equal to males for the sake of challenging them to see who can build something better.
Now, all of this is my theorizing and from my own experience, not everyone falls bellow that category, but a good amount of people I've interacted with used to or still do.
So as to the question, yes I prefere the opposite gender due to personal respect but I prefere playing my own because it allows me to express my true worth and qualities more, not to be sexist, but it is what I feel.
I would really like to start writing more female characters though.
