When you start selecting older characters as your Avatar

No idea what you mean

When I played WoW I generally played a female dwarf hunter. I cannot count the number of time I got whispered something along the lines of “hahaha your a girl. Feign death!” WoW even had a holiday quest where you had to /kiss a female dwarf - I’ve never been so popular!

When I first started WoW i had a number of characters. I was coming from EQ, in which I 2-boxed characters, ala two separate accounts. So I copied that for WoW and enjoyed it for a bit. At the time I had a male Orc warrior, and a female Troll Priest. So as I leveled and played I eventually joined a guild and as roles would have it, I was needed as a Priest a LOT more and ended up being our lead raiding Priest through two expansions. I eventually burned out, switched to rogue, raiding with that for two more guilds and then hung up my WoW shoes.

I can’t even begin to count the number of times I got creepy PMs from people thinking I was female while playing the priest Really creepy, too, not just awkward banter. I don’t envy actual females playing multiplayer games.

I’ve not experienced any of that kind of crap for quite a few years. Maybe gamers grew up a bit. Or maybe it still happens but I gravitate towards guilds that make it clear members are “old farts” and maturity is expected. Or maybe its just declaring for the world to see that that I am an old fart!

It was mostly when in mixed groups or PUGs that I got that kind of stuff. The guild knew I was an old male as we talked to each other constantly on Ventrilo/Teamspeak.