{"id":41991,"date":"2014-05-15T15:17:49","date_gmt":"2014-05-15T21:17:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/05\/15\/cross-gender-avatar-selection-in-mmos.html"},"modified":"2014-05-16T13:04:13","modified_gmt":"2014-05-16T19:04:13","slug":"cross-gender-avatar-selection-in-mmos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/05\/15\/cross-gender-avatar-selection-in-mmos.html","title":{"rendered":"Cross-gender avatar selection in MMOs"},"content":{"rendered":"
Yeah, I confess I prefer to look at female figures more than male ones — but I tend to play more female characters than male ones for a couple of reasons:<\/p>\n

1. The costumes are often more varied ("tough" costumes show up for both genders; "soft" costumes tend to be only for females).<\/p>\n

2. In at least some cases (City of Heroes was a classic), female characters just move more gracefully \/ naturally than male ones.<\/p>\n

3. I personally find male heroic figures to be so overdone (being a regular comic book reader)\u00a0that female heroic figures are just more interesting to me to play (often the case of my comic book reading, too). \u00a0<\/p>\n

(h\/t +<\/span>Les Jenkins<\/a><\/span>)\ufeff<\/div>\n

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The Surprisingly Unsurprising Reason Why Men Choose Female Avatars in World of Warcraft<\/a>
\n When men play female avatars in online games, they change the way they speak to conform to female stereotypes\u2014but the way they move betrays their masquerade. In a recent study reported in Information, Communication and Society, researchers created a custom-built quest in World of Warcraft\u2014the popular online game where players…\n <\/p>\n

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Yeah, I confess I prefer to look at female figures more than male ones — but I tend to play more female characters than male ones for a couple of reasons: 1. The costumes are often more varied ("tough" costumes show up for both genders; "soft" costumes tend to be only for females). 2. 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