Gamers missed the sexual revolution?
In EverQuest female characters sell for 12% less on online auctions, etc. And theres more.
But in playing the game, he found plenty of anecdotal evidence that female characters are valued less highly than are male ones, even though the real person behind the character can be of either gender. Castronova said he played the game as a female character a number of times, and would inevitably find other players assuming he was less knowledgeable or skilled. “I’m pretty experienced, but I’d still get people coming up to me and saying, ‘OK, honey, stand over there and watch what I do,’” he said. “Even though everybody knows the person behind the avatar could be either sex, the male avatars tend to be treated as more skilled…We’ve just taken sex roles from Earth and put them into Norrath.”
courtesy of Ars Technica
I agree!!! Most definatly! female characters are treated as newbs…. i do it sometimes myself hehe… I play as jangang on the bristlebane server if anyone wants to get incontact with me :)