I've spent a few years helping moderate/admin a fairly old aber style MUD. In being in that position of "authority" I listened to a lot of complaints from female players that they get hit on constantly. Many of those same players have created male characters so they can solve puzzles in peace.
When I was a player, I dealt with this a lot too, everything from the "Let me give you a hand, little lady." to "Wanna hotchat me, cutie?". One of the "perks" of being appointed to admin level is that it deterred a lot of those comments for fear of reprisal. Even now, when I visit places like LambdaMOO I spend a fair bit of time deflecting unwanted passes.
As and experiment I've logged in to several MOOs and MUDs as male, it's like a different world. No one hits on you, but you do fall prey to more competitiveness.
I rather enjoy ApocaMOOlypse's option of setting your gender to Royle (We prefer not to play by ordinary rules, rather We play by our own).
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I've spent a few years helping moderate/admin a fairly old aber style MUD. In being in that position of "authority" I listened to a lot of complaints from female players that they get hit on constantly. Many of those same players have created male characters so they can solve puzzles in peace.
When I was a player, I dealt with this a lot too, everything from the "Let me give you a hand, little lady." to "Wanna hotchat me, cutie?". One of the "perks" of being appointed to admin level is that it deterred a lot of those comments for fear of reprisal. Even now, when I visit places like LambdaMOO I spend a fair bit of time deflecting unwanted passes.
As and experiment I've logged in to several MOOs and MUDs as male, it's like a different world. No one hits on you, but you do fall prey to more competitiveness.
I rather enjoy ApocaMOOlypse's option of setting your gender to Royle (We prefer not to play by ordinary rules, rather We play by our own).