Male or female protagonist, and why?

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#1 Welis
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Topic title says it all. For me, I prefer male because I am a guy and I prefer playing as a male or likes movie that the male has the leading role. I get uncomfortable playing as a female or watching them go all out "cool" and stuff. It's just not my taste.
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#2 FMAB_GTO
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Women,if the case is tough. tough women are the best!
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Wow, sexism already in the first post! This shall be a hilariously sad thread.

Anyway, I don't care. As long as they're god.

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#4 spazzx625
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You get uncomfortable watching a woman? :/ I don't mind either as long as the story makes sense for it.
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#5 bobcheeseball
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Male. I'm scared of females.
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#6 Ilovegames1992
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Meh, usually guys make better characters. Don't know why that is, guess its harder for people to write women characters.

Plus they always go the route of increasing the t n a until it becomes ridiculous fan service.

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#7 Welis
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[QUOTE="spazzx625"]You get uncomfortable watching a woman? :/ I don't mind either as long as the story makes sense for it.

No don't get me wrong. I don't get uncomfortable with women around me or watching them. But me playing as them in a game yeah. And no I am not sexist at all. I just prefer that male should be protagonist, but that is me. :)
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Both. Depends on what it is. Games, it can be both. I tend to pick women to play as, because I like a strong, powerful woman who doesn't give a crap. Perfect example of this is FemShep, which is only made even better by the fantastic voice acting by Jennifer Hale. While Mark Meer is an outstanding actor in his own right, his ManShep is just dull sounding unless you're all out Renegade and never, ever stray from the Renegade options. Films I tend to only 'respect' and reflect over a strong male character, because the females are almost always really boring and uninteresting. I think Hollywood is a little outdated on their view of female characters.. Books it's once more both. I've read many books with strong female leads and weak female leads that didn't speak to me, as well as for the male characters in a different book or a different genre of book.
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Meh, usually guys make better characters. Don't know why that is, guess its harder for people to write women characters.

Plus they always go the route of increasing the t n a until it becomes ridiculous fan service.

Ilovegames1992

It's because the majority of fiction writers are males and they don't know how to portray female characters without slipping into ridiculous stereotypes.

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[QUOTE="spazzx625"]You get uncomfortable watching a woman? :/ I don't mind either as long as the story makes sense for it.Welis
No don't get me wrong. I don't get uncomfortable with women around me or watching them. But me playing as them in a game yeah. And no I am not sexist at all. I just prefer that male should be protagonist, but that is me. :)

You're being a little sexist... You say you don't like watching women do "cool" stuff or be strong. Well guess what, women aren't any less awesome or capable of amazing feats than men. Women tend to make great protagonists in darker settings, and you should not just brush off playing as a woman because "oh man boobs are weird".

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I prefer male protagonists because woman are weak. All those games and movies where women beat up legions of bad guys. LOL. false. Besides, who wants to listen to a story about kitchen work? Now I shall sit back and see which people bite.
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#12 spazzx625
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women aren't any less awesome or capable of amazing feats than men.

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I prefer male protagonists because woman are weak. All those games and movies where women beat up legions of bad guys. LOL. false. Besides, who wants to listen to a story about kitchen work? Now I shall sit back and see which people bite.sonicare
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#14 Ilovegames1992
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[QUOTE="Ilovegames1992"]

Meh, usually guys make better characters. Don't know why that is, guess its harder for people to write women characters.

Plus they always go the route of increasing the t n a until it becomes ridiculous fan service.

Aljosa23

It's because the majority of fiction writers are males and they don't know how to portray female characters without slipping into ridiculous stereotypes.

Really? I would have thought it predominantly male in Hollywood but a lot of fiction writers of novels are female and still male characters are usually better.

You're right though.

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Ultimately, I don't care. However, I'd like to see more respectable female protagonists who aren't either totally stereotypical women or mere sex symbols (or, even worse, both).
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[QUOTE="Deihjan"]

women aren't any less awesome or capable of amazing feats than men.

spazzx625
Let's see you try to write YOUR name in the snow with your pee.

Let's see you try to make a sandwich if you can't make mayo yourself!
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[QUOTE="spazzx625"][QUOTE="Deihjan"]

women aren't any less awesome or capable of amazing feats than men.

Deihjan
Let's see you try to write YOUR name in the snow with your pee.

Let's see you try to make a sandwich if you can't make mayo yourself!

lol
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I prefer male protagonists because woman are weak. All those games and movies where women beat up legions of bad guys. LOL. false. Besides, who wants to listen to a story about kitchen work? Now I shall sit back and see which people bite.sonicare
You almost got me there. XD
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#19 Zaibach
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depends on the source material.

Sometimes Male sometimes Female,

Claymore, Female

Lat airbender male

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[QUOTE="sonicare"]I prefer male protagonists because woman are weak. All those games and movies where women beat up legions of bad guys. LOL. false. Besides, who wants to listen to a story about kitchen work? Now I shall sit back and see which people bite.ghoklebutter
You almost got me there. XD

lol. Usually when I go sarcastic, I try to do it in such a blatantly obvious way. But some people still think I am dead serious.
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#21 DJ-Lafleur
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I don' t really care either way.

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#22 Fightingfan
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[QUOTE="FMAB_GTO"] tough women are the best!

Periods.
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#23 CHOASXIII
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I like both and sometimes I'd rather see a woman protagonist cause it helps "shake things up" a bit.

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[QUOTE="ghoklebutter"][QUOTE="sonicare"]I prefer male protagonists because woman are weak. All those games and movies where women beat up legions of bad guys. LOL. false. Besides, who wants to listen to a story about kitchen work? Now I shall sit back and see which people bite.sonicare
You almost got me there. XD

lol. Usually when I go sarcastic, I try to do it in such a blatantly obvious way. But some people still think I am dead serious.

The last part gave it away. Try to be a little less obvious next time for the sake of entertainment. Nibroc should be a role model.
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I like female protagonists to be honest, I think most people do.LegendaryMatt
Apparently not in this thread...
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#27 Ilovegames1992
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Ultimately, I don't care. However, I'd like to see more respectable female protagonists who aren't either totally stereotypical women or mere sex symbols (or, even worse, both).ghoklebutter

They almost managed the entire film of Alien doing that with Ripley.

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#28 Hatiko
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I like it when they work, and usually in an action setting a male is more suited. Look at a game like Uncharted, Chloe and Elena are beleivable and tough women. Then you have games where they wear no clothes but are able to take on an army with no scratches? Noooooo. I rather have Frank west take on zombies than be a lasy fighting zombies with sex.

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[QUOTE="Fightingfan"][QUOTE="FMAB_GTO"] tough women are the best!

Periods.

What about them? I suggest you read any book of Tamora Pierce, especially from her Tortall universe. Or the Dragonriders of Pern books, there's a trilogy about a girl named Melody. Highly entertaining. Both are fantasy-settings with strong female protagonists who grow up, get their periods and deal with them, and even become knights and bards, despite their hardships and efforts to fit in as boys or to continue living after an accident that leaves the heroine unable to ever fully recover from her wounds.
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#30 Jackc8
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Females because male characters just bore me.

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[QUOTE="FMAB_GTO"] tough women are the best!Fightingfan
Periods.

What's that got to do with the question?

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#32 Welis
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[QUOTE="Welis"][QUOTE="spazzx625"]You get uncomfortable watching a woman? :/ I don't mind either as long as the story makes sense for it.Deihjan

No don't get me wrong. I don't get uncomfortable with women around me or watching them. But me playing as them in a game yeah. And no I am not sexist at all. I just prefer that male should be protagonist, but that is me. :)

You're being a little sexist... You say you don't like watching women do "cool" stuff or be strong. Well guess what, women aren't any less awesome or capable of amazing feats than men. Women tend to make great protagonists in darker settings, and you should not just brush off playing as a woman because "oh man boobs are weird".

I might sound like a sexist.. Yeah. Women can be great as leading role if the role they were given suits them. I like watching movies when female gets role as a psycho girlfriend, a obsessed stalker or something psychological. But being a bad ass with two pistols, half naked or something so fiction it only gets too mainstream. You know, big boobs, half naked and one shot every men around them, it gets too ridiculous.
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#33 Fightingfan
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[QUOTE="Fightingfan"][QUOTE="FMAB_GTO"] tough women are the best!CHOASXIII

Periods.

What's that got to do with the question?

Why men are better.
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Females because male characters just bore me.

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They are too busy actually getting things done to be exciting and titillating. Oh snap!
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#35 Deihjan
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Oh, and another very good series of books that show VERY STRONG female protagonists, because god forbid girls wanting to play with swords, is The Shamer Chronicles by Lene Kaaberbøl. While I don't know if they translated well from Danish into English, those four books have helped me realise that I have just as much right to being a tomboy and play in the forest as the boys.

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[QUOTE="CHOASXIII"]

[QUOTE="Fightingfan"] Periods.Fightingfan

What's that got to do with the question?

Why men are better.

Men aren't better than women and since when do female game characters(or ones from books) have periods?

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Female. Being female then I prefer to play as female,sick to death of male leads and the whole 'be a man!' and 'only males play video games!' mentality in the industry that tends to limit imagination and ideas. Female leads can be well written and fit into games if the writer actually uses imagination instead of some sexist, outdated stereotype. It isn't hard to write a female character if you have the creative capability to do it.
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[QUOTE="Fightingfan"][QUOTE="CHOASXIII"]

What's that got to do with the question?

CHOASXIII

Why men are better.

Men aren't better than women and since when do female game characters have periods?

You honestly take that seriously? *sigh*
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[QUOTE="Fightingfan"][QUOTE="CHOASXIII"]

What's that got to do with the question?

CHOASXIII

Why men are better.

Men aren't better than women and since when do female game characters(or ones from books) have periods?

They probably do, i just doubt its an integral plot point.

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[QUOTE="Welis"] I might sound like a sexist.. Yeah. Women can be great as leading role if the role they were given suits them. I like watching movies when female gets role as a psycho girlfriend, a obsessed stalker or something psychological. But being a bad ass with two pistols, half naked or something so fiction it only gets too mainstream. You know, big boobs, half naked and one shot every men around them, it gets too ridiculous.

[QUOTE="Fightingfan"] Why men are better.

Fvck you two. Fvck you beyond eternity. I hope you fvcking rot from the inside out, that your d!cks disappear and your nuts turn into pus-filled globs. You piss me off beyond belief, your narrowminded viewpoints on women are part of the reason why feminism becomes a bad word, because NO GOD FORBID THAT WOMEN CAN BE STRONG AND FERTILE AT THE SAME TIME. NOOOO WHATEVER WILL THE MEN DO WITHOUT WOMEN ENSLAVED IN THE KITCHENS NOOOO
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sick to death of male leads and the whole 'be a man!' and 'only males play video games!' mentality in the industry that tends to limit imagination and ideas. Smokescreened84

So true. It gets really irksome after a while.

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#44 CHOASXIII
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[QUOTE="CHOASXIII"]

[QUOTE="Fightingfan"] Why men are better.Fightingfan

Men aren't better than women and since when do female game characters have periods?

You honestly take that seriously? *sigh*

Serious or not I was making a point.

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I might sound like a sexist.. Yeah. Women can be great as leading role if the role they were given suits them. I like watching movies when female gets role as a psycho girlfriend, a obsessed stalker or something psychological. But being a bad ass with two pistols, half naked or something so fiction it only gets too mainstream. You know, big boobs, half naked and one shot every men around them, it gets too ridiculous. Welis
How would you feel if your wife got a higher salary than you?

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[QUOTE="Welis"] I might sound like a sexist.. Yeah. Women can be great as leading role if the role they were given suits them. I like watching movies when female gets role as a psycho girlfriend, a obsessed stalker or something psychological. But being a bad ass with two pistols, half naked or something so fiction it only gets too mainstream. You know, big boobs, half naked and one shot every men around them, it gets too ridiculous. Deihjan
Why men are better.Fightingfan
Fvck you two. Fvck you beyond eternity. I hope you fvcking rot from the inside out, that your d!cks disappear and your nuts turn into pus-filled globs. You piss me off beyond belief, your narrowminded viewpoints on women are part of the reason why feminism becomes a bad word, because NO GOD FORBID THAT WOMEN CAN BE STRONG AND FERTILE AT THE SAME TIME. NOOOO WHATEVER WILL THE MEN DO WITHOUT WOMEN ENSLAVED IN THE KITCHENS NOOOO

I have you pegged as someone who is smart enough to know when people are joking.

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[QUOTE="Fightingfan"][QUOTE="FMAB_GTO"] tough women are the best!Deihjan
Periods.

What about them? I suggest you read any book of Tamora Pierce, especially from her Tortall universe. Or the Dragonriders of Pern books, there's a trilogy about a girl named Melody. Highly entertaining. Both are fantasy-settings with strong female protagonists who grow up, get their periods and deal with them, and even become knights and bards, despite their hardships and efforts to fit in as boys or to continue living after an accident that leaves the heroine unable to ever fully recover from her wounds.

Joke asides, in regards to media I think I am kinda sex.

For example. Watch Terminator3, I honestly can't take that women seriously in comparison to Arnold. How the fawk does a women 130lbs, take down Arnold...

Same goes into Military movies, women can't even join the special forces so how am I suppose to take a military movie with a women in it serious, I know I'm just "lookin' into things too much", but stuff like that just gets to me.

I remember in the walking dead rick said "Make sure the safety is off", the gun was a glock, they don't have safetys(pull switch), stupid sh*t like that will make me turn off a movie right there.

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Fvck you two. Fvck you beyond eternity. I hope you fvcking rot from the inside out, that your d!cks disappear and your nuts turn into pus-filled globs. You piss me off beyond belief, your narrowminded viewpoints on women are part of the reason why feminism becomes a bad word, because NO GOD FORBID THAT WOMEN CAN BE STRONG AND FERTILE AT THE SAME TIME. NOOOO WHATEVER WILL THE MEN DO WITHOUT WOMEN ENSLAVED IN THE KITCHENS NOOOODeihjan

Deih, I can't say I've always been a fan of you, but you deserve +10 respect points for this post.

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[QUOTE="Deihjan"] Fvck you two. Fvck you beyond eternity. I hope you fvcking rot from the inside out, that your d!cks disappear and your nuts turn into pus-filled globs. You piss me off beyond belief, your narrowminded viewpoints on women are part of the reason why feminism becomes a bad word, because NO GOD FORBID THAT WOMEN CAN BE STRONG AND FERTILE AT THE SAME TIME. NOOOO WHATEVER WILL THE MEN DO WITHOUT WOMEN ENSLAVED IN THE KITCHENS NOOOO

I love you Jeanette :oops: No offense to the one she quoted though ok.