Critical Miss: Issue 2 [x]

Men In Dresses

Stereotyping

In my experience when men roleplay women they tend to play what is very much an adolescent male's one-dimensional view of women. They define their characters in terms of what they wear (usually things like mini-dresses, armour-plated stockings or chain-mail bikinis) and how they look.

To put it bluntly: No bloke ever plays an ugly, unsexy woman.

Well that's my view, but I'm sure there will be plenty who disagree with me. I just don't think that - for the vast majority of roleplayers at least - cross-sex roleplaying works. But what do you think?

Can men really roleplay women?

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