Oh god, where do I start? I'm always bad at writing these things. I guess a self introduction is in order.

I'm a trigendered female bodied gynephile. My gender fluctuates throughout the seasons, occasionally being feminine, occasionally being masculine, and occasionally being both/neither. Currently I'm in the loop of femininity, but for the sake of saying, I'm just queer. Saying that, gender is an issue that seems to pop up a lot around me. It's a very complicated issue and occasionally hurts my brain, but I try to make sense of it from time to time.

That's basically enough about me, so let's jump right into the mix.

To say that gender is just taught through culture is just plain erroneous. There is definitely an inbornness attached to it. As it is, a majority of peoples born with female anatomy are feminine in gender, as with male sexed individuals to masculine gender. Even those who show traits of say, flamboyantness in males and tomboyness in females show telltale signs of masculinity and femininity in their respective typical places.

There are times when individuals are in fact genderless, both genders, something else, or trans, but to say that they were taught to be that way is simply not true. Gender defiantly isn't a binary, but on the other hand to say that it can be determined on how the individual was raised is (beating the dead horse) just plain wrong. I grew up in a conservative environment where the expectation was for me to be as feminine as possible. Even then, I lived the first 4 years of my life thinking I was a boy.

Womanly issues, no matter what what sex the individual is, span all women and such and I agree immensely that gender is not just a cosmetic thing. And in fact, I'm insulted to think that it has only been represented mostly as a cosmetic thing. Gender is a wonderful factor in the spice of life that is diversity, and I DO want to play more games where being a woman does come into play. Great examples of positively representing women in a positive way would be, in my opinion, Heavy Rain and Beyond Good and Evil. Bad examples would be like the aforementioned Tomb Raider and Bayonetta. Bayonetta being so ridiculous about its portrayal of women to the point of being absolutely hilarious to play.

I find it sad that there aren't a whole lot of games where in a female main protagonist has been portrayed realistically. And you game making folk should get on that.

im not too good at this writing and portraying thoughts thing