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

[doujin-dork.livejournal.com]

I've totally mainly seen it as a girls thing, with guys being minority. I think you should definitely take into account what medium of character that people play.

For example. I'm female, I play an anime character from a shoujo slice of life. Although, it has a pretty big following from guys due to its premise of 'otaku watching otaku' and slightly lesbian undertones.

Captain Hammer from Doctor Horrible's Sing-Along Blog, which is by Joss Whedon, which means there's a considerable number of girls that like it, and at the same time, it's accessible to guys, but NEIL PATRICK HARRIS who, in my opinion, brings all the girls to the yard, if you get my drift. And yet his having been in Harold and Kumar might have some effect on that. Plus I think that Nathan Fillion's (actor for CH) show Serenity and Firefly might be more guys shows. IDEK.

Oh. And Demyx from Kingdom Hearts, which is a video game. And video games are inherently more for guys, but it's got a Disney/Final Fantasy thing going on, and FF is definitely still geared towards guys, but the Disney lessens that a little. Plus, the amount of girls versus guys in the KH fandom is overwhelming. Although, it's highly popular for males in general.

Actually. That'd be something, huh? Girls are more fandom-based (art, stories, rping, etc.) than guys. Maybe that's a point. Definitely a lot of pairings from girls. But guys tend to just do. IE, just play the game, just watch the show, just read the book.

OMG, HI, THIS IS SO TL;DR HOW DID THIS HAPPEN. Hi, I am a girl.

[i-know-stuff.livejournal.com]

If this was a serious big paper that was exploring the why's then I'd take into account all of that. It'd be much more interesting to write too...T__T But it's just a tiny extra credit thing.

I loved Firefly and Serenity. But then again as a kid when most of my girl friends wanted barbies I wanted X-Men/Power Rangers action figures.

Thank you I don't mind long comments. I really wish it was a serious paper now, this is really interesting.

[horrible-protag.livejournal.com]

And then of course, there'd be transgender people, but- yeah. Not big paper.

Hey, what're you going into? Maybe this could be a research paper for you or something? I've actually always wanted to find out player's gender, orientation, gender of the character, and orientation of the character, to see stats and correlation.

Oh! And there are at least two other guys that haven't commented on this that are in Poly.