In my
previous post, I made a side comment about "she-males". Back in the
day (because I'm old), we used this term to refer to a human being who, at
first glance, appears to be a beautiful and well-racked woman -- but has a
penis. Typically, it occurs when a man is convinced that he's really a woman
and undergoes the sex change process, but only up to the point before they
would ... turn it into something else. He gets cold feet (or cold whatever)
and decides he can't go through with it.
In the context of an
MMO, I use the term "she-male" to indicate a female avatar behind which
plays a real life (RL) male.
(NOTE: this subject has nothing to do with "tanking"
-- it's a
"digression").Why do boyz do this? Age-old question.
I'll give you the
typical answer in a bit, but first, let me make
clear that I've had the pleasure of knowing several she-males over my gaming
career who were wonderful people and could credibly play a female in a
multiplayer roleplay environment. Some boys are just that well in touch with
their feminine side and, when you observe their actions in-game, you'd be
hard-pressed to know they're RL males.
But in this post, I'm not
talking about that worthy minority -- I'm targeting the
typical she-male.
So if you ask the
typical she-male why he plays a female, you'll likely get some version of
the following:
"Hey, I spend a lot of time playing this game, right?
And I'm a hot-blooded, cool-as-hell, stud of a man, Dude! As such, I am
not going to stare at some man-ass while I play. I'm far too
sophisticated for that! No, I'll have a female avatar, because then I'll be
looking at a girl-ass which I -- as a guy who's just that good with the
ladies -- can truly appreciate. Because that's the kind of erudite,
high-society, cool-as-hell James-Bond-type I am and why all the ladies want
my seed."
... <stoic nod>
It's a dodge, of course. But most
people fail to understand
why. It's tempting, for example, to tease
the she-male about things like unresolved sexual identification issues,
latent homosexuality, the mistaken belief that they know how to RP a lesbian
...among others.
But none of that nails it. So I'll do that for
you. Please remember the warning in my previous post: I offer only the
truth.
Here it is:
she's your ideal woman.That's it.
Nothing more.
Think about it for a while. Don't worry -- I'll have a
follow-up.