Thank you. XD Unfortunately, you are right on some aspects of how it's weird. Most people don't have my experience with opposite gender characters. They just don't feel comfortable or just don't think it's 'acceptable' to play what you aren't.

Where I used to RP was the worst due to immature kids (and I mean kids even into their 20s by how they acted).
Worst were the people who, instead of asking why I didn't allow it when I finally stopped, they'd go into a bitch-fit about how I was being 'unfair' and how I should be willing to play males as well.
This made me think; "Wait, I should be FORCED to play something I don't want to make YOU happy?"
Roleplay is about finding partners who like/want the same thing in an RP, not trying to force others to do as you want.

Here, people seem a lot more docile about it. They question things like you do, but they rarely go into this fit of how 'it's so unfair that we cannot make people do what we want'.

We make threads like these to find partners who match our tastes, not to be berated by children who cannot accept that we don't like the same thing as they do... It's kind of like...I have a few threads up. Yesterday, 4 people messaged me to RP...and none of them apparently read the thread because they wanted things I clearly stated I wasn't offering. Lol.