I am much the same. I do not know how much of that is that I always WANTED to be male until not too many years ago, now my gender honestly doesn't matter much to me (except when I praise the need to not shave my shave, or curse about monthly femaleness). I am who I am, and I wouldn't want to be DIFFERENT as a man.
Ever since I was a kid, I've also preferred drawing male characters. Which, according to my experiences, is the slightest bit unusual, as, supposely, one can draw one's own sex better. (I've spent so many years drawing only men now that this certainly isn't true anymore)
I wonder if the same would be true of writing, although I firmly believe the essential emotions are true of men and women. Maybe that's a delusion, and I'm writing feminised males. I doubt it, though.
As for the why...in fanfic, I really think a LOT of it is simply due to the characters I like. So far, I have only written LOTR and POTC, and neither movie has females I like; and I believe I have a fair number of reasons for it, none of which has to do with their sex, except perhaps one: I like to stay historically correct, and due to writing in historical fandoms, that allows far less freedom with female characters. It's impossible to write a woman in the Navy, it requires a LOT more explanation to give a woman as pirate a plausible backstory than a man.
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Date: 2007-04-17 09:15 am (UTC)Ever since I was a kid, I've also preferred drawing male characters. Which, according to my experiences, is the slightest bit unusual, as, supposely, one can draw one's own sex better. (I've spent so many years drawing only men now that this certainly isn't true anymore)
I wonder if the same would be true of writing, although I firmly believe the essential emotions are true of men and women. Maybe that's a delusion, and I'm writing feminised males. I doubt it, though.
As for the why...in fanfic, I really think a LOT of it is simply due to the characters I like. So far, I have only written LOTR and POTC, and neither movie has females I like; and I believe I have a fair number of reasons for it, none of which has to do with their sex, except perhaps one: I like to stay historically correct, and due to writing in historical fandoms, that allows far less freedom with female characters. It's impossible to write a woman in the Navy, it requires a LOT more explanation to give a woman as pirate a plausible backstory than a man.