Someone wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets 2008-09-02 02:28 am (UTC)

106. Not necessarily. I might have interpreted the secret wrong, but from what I gathered, the OP just meant that she didn't want to play as female characters simply because she is female, and wanted to escape into a fantasy world where she could play as male characters.

I mean, don't get me wrong. It's a silly/stupid/word-of-choice secret, and she'll obviously be missing out on a lot of good games.

But I don't see anything inherently sexist about wanting to 'play pretend' only as male characters. The poster even said herself that she has nothing against female protagonists, she just doesn't wish to play as them. Isn't escaping from the real world the point of things like video games?

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