From:	The Deb Decker <RJR96326@****.UTULSA.EDU>
Subject:	Re: New players, gender benders, etc.
Date:	Tue, 26 Oct 1993 22:59:01 GMT

> We have had several successful "gender benders" of a sort. They
> were not truly "bent". I have had 2+ homosexual players who
> have elected to run female characters. They have worked out
> well. In fact one character, "Black Widow", is a female elf,
> run by a gay male, is a lesbian. She has worked out quite
> well.

I must publicly disagree with the implicit assumption that gay men are somehow
bending the gender fence less than straight men who play female characters.

I have to admit that I don't feel I did Jaez justice playing her, but then
again many of the situations we found ourselves in, one's gender was not
important.

One other female character that I played I felt I felt the difference most
when I played a noblewoman on a mission to an Islamic country in GURPS (there's
that word again!) Deryni campaign, because of the culture and the campaign. I
think in combat-oriented camapaigns you sex is irrelevant, and only becomes
important if heavy role-playing happens. Even then, if gender is unimportant
to all the characters involved in a scene, it won't be a problem.


J Roberson