Its roleplaying. I know a RL guy who plays a female with such accuracy, I never knew he was really a guy until I met him in person. He's a dang good actor and I would never consider him 'gay'. (I miss the days when gay meant happy and didn't cause such uproar... *sigh*)
If someone freaks out because they just discovered that 'hottie' they've been flirting with is really a guy, I wonder more about their security in their personal identity rather than the flirtee. (Is that a word?
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Just because an actor plays a female in a movie, does that make him homosexual? As mentioned in an earlier post, females were banned from the stage in Europe for most of history, and females were banned from the stage in Japan for much of their history, meaning all female parts were played by men.
So to answer OP query. No. You are not gay if you play a female toon.
You know... I find it odd no one questions females motives for playing males.
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Edited, Mon Jan 26 17:29:33 2004 by Irondragon