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Playing as females in video games
2016-04-29 17:13:39 Post No. 335923250
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Playing as females in video games
Anonymous
2016-04-29 17:13:39
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Does anyone else actively embrace your identified gender through your chosen avatar when interacting with others? If so, do you find it helps more with the dysphoria than just internally placing yourself in your avatar's shoes?
I'm totally closeted everywhere except online, with no plans to really out anywhere else any time soon as it isn't safe to do so. But I was thinking I might get better results regarding dealing with the dysphoria if I were to "roleplay" in my identified gender. I don't like the term roleplay here in this context because presenting as your identified gender isn't play (though I'm sure it must be exhilarating) and it isn't a chosen role, it's being myself/yourself. However, I use the term in a non-gender-related way to refer to one being "in character", it is often common while playing a RPG in a larger community (it would be a bit hard in a solo game).
I've never RP'ed and thinking about doing so brings up a similar feeling of anxiety and hopefulness that thoughts of presenting as a woman does, albeit less severely because of the vicarious / physically removed nature of doing it from the comfort of my keyboard. So far I've just been wistfully admiring my avatar and enjoying the game, just with the added internalization of "I wish I looked like this and am as free as she is" thrown in good measure every so often. An added bonus; my guild does seem to be LGBT friendly as we have several openly gay members on teamspeak (voip) and in text chat. Again, I'm not out to them, but I like to think that someday I might be.
