Stereotypical misconceptions by uninformed people make for entertaining reading, but really do nothing to expand understanding for anyone who ventures here.
I am sure that I am not alone in knowing people both male and female, perhaps gay and straight and everything in between, who play multiple gender characters in a game. This is not an indication of one’s sexuality. If anything, it simply indicates a natural curiosity that would not occur in one who was not comfortably centered in their own sexuality. It is important to understand that there are many places where one can be “centered” in their sexuality.
It apparently has not occurred to people that “dressing in woman’s” clothing is usually something done by cross dressing inclined people who statistically maintain heterosexual relationships.
The “incidence of homosexual people adopting the role of the opposite sex is statistically less than that of a heterosexual person”. Fundamentally, that is one factor that defines them as homosexual. Of course the last thing I would want to do is cloud the issue with facts out of a text book.
Translate the psychology into the world of Everquest and the fact is that more straight males play female characters than gay males. This is not surprising at all if you understand what homosexuality means.
What people seem to not realize is that sexuality is based on a scale of degree between heterosexual and homosexual. There are many degrees between in most people. Interestingly, it is the people at the extreme ends of the scale who are more accepting of the people at the opposite end of the scale. It is the ones in between who exhibit conflicted thinking to one degree or another. That is where insecurities and fears, i.e. “intolerance” comes from. Of course environmental factors enter in here as well. It makes for an incredible diversity in people.
You may as well get used to people being different because most people are very different than you are and they.. are “normal” too.
This topic has become an outlet for phobias and I wonder why it is allowed to continue.