Female impersonation tarts up online games

Why do so many male players dress up their avatars as female? It's not for the reasons you may think.

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Only one fantasy here

The only fantasy here is the belief that most men assume a female character is operated by a female person.

I play MMRPGs. The only people in these games that would support the above belief are kids, who's first instinct is to make a character that shares their own gender.

I agree with the player quoted in your story. If I have to look at the back of a character for hours while playing, I would rather look at a female. I believe most males understand this and make no assumptions as to the gender of a characters operator. If they call you "her" it's because the character is a her, not because they're assuming the operator is a her.
This has been going on since role playing games were invented, so now it's a story? Someone just notice it? We all know this is 2006 right?