Question

[i-know-stuff.livejournal.com]

‘Ello Poly~ I’m currently in sociology in college and we need to write a few small papers for extra credit points. One of the subjects mentioned were gender stereotypes, such as girls don’t play video games or boys don’t play with dolls, the stereotype of what society views should happen. I’d like to write about RP’ing, I’ve found that generally (at least with RL people I know) RP is thought to be a “guys” thing.

So I need some basis of statistics to go off of, so if you don’t mind can you please leave a comment with your gender?

To be clear this is optional, it’s not a huge deal as I don’t need the extra credit to pass or event get a great grade, you’re lj name will not be mentioned, your online name/real name won’t be, and where I got the info won’t be mentioned. Basically all I need is a number in real life to go off of, the number won’t event be mentioned. I just need to know which side to go with, if it’s completely absurd to think that girls don’t rp (which is what I think XD) or if it’s fairly accurate.

If you’re not comfortable with telling your gender, don’t worry about it! The last thing I want is anyone to feel uncomfortable so don’t feel like you have to!

Thanks for reading~

Comments

[warconductor.livejournal.com]

Dude here. And yes, I often noticed such a divide. No idea why it's there. Maybe it has something to do with the hard rules? Since that seems to be the main difference I can think of.

I asume that you when we say "online RP" we refer to the kind of thing we do here vs. say, the D and D game I play in that is HOSTED online.

[i-know-stuff.livejournal.com]

This wasn't meant to be a debate, I don't want to upset anyone at all.

I didn't realize there were D and D games hosted online. I knew they did Magic online but not that. Kinda cool. But yes I meant this.

[warconductor.livejournal.com]

Did I give the impression of being upset? I'm sorry, I'm not bothered at all. As a former comm student I'm mildly hardwired to think about these things like that.

[i-know-stuff.livejournal.com]

No you didn't really, I probably just took it wrong and am worried that some of my comments may have bothered other males in the game. Which is the last thing I wanted.