[quote=@Crazytrini85]
Like I said, exceptions exist, but it's kind of uncanny when you ONLY write from a perspective that has nothing to do with you. Which is why assumptions of people being trans women start flying. If you had 12 character slots and 11 of them were girls, then you are no longer "just trying" out to write from an alternative perspective; that basically is your perspective. The question OP raised isn't a can or cannot; the question is [i]why.[/i]
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I don't like this idea a writer can only ever write what "their perspective" is. Yeah, I get it, you can never truly disassociate yourself from your writing or you wouldn't be the one writing it, but it's not like people who exclusively play female characters always play [i]the same[/i] female character. Most writers at least ATTEMPT to write a variety of personality types, personality types that might not even line up with how THEY act. I'm not a very good writer, but I at least try to challenge myself by playing characters that are completely unlike how I am. Sure, my biases as a person are naturally going to be imparted on them, but I'm at least making the [i]attempt[/i] of being different.

That is to say, I don't like it when you call someone a sussy baka for exclusively playing as the perceived opposite gender and calling that "their perspective". It's... rude? Yeah, rude. At least to me it would be, and is.