Yep . . . gender-bending popular in video games . . .

By day, Freeman Williams manages a small dental practice in suburban Houston. But on any given night, he’s prowling crime-ridden streets and battling ne’er-do-wells in the video game “City of Heroes” as his virtual alter-ego: a female superhero named Robotrixie. “I get in character voice-wise as much as my male voice will allow,” explains Williams, 48, who talks with other players through the game’s voice chat feature. “This has become my catharsis, my escape from the work world.” While the idea of gender-bending is hardly new, the vast online worlds in video games such as “City of Heroes” and “World of Warcraft” have become the latest ways for people to forget about their real life and transform into someone — or even something — else.

Well . . . when we get a new PS2 or X-Box game, there is a tendancy to choose the female characters around here . . . althogh, for Kaye, it makes sense she needs female characters to identify with and so many games don’t have good female characters, most are pretty much all-male or only have one or two girls to choose out of a selection that has many males. However, deal ol’ dad will sometimes choose the girl characters ‘cuz they’re hotter looking. No online roleplay though. When I’ve played online, I’ve always gone male . . . male priest types who usually worship Eris. Duh. I’d say that the online RPGs have this phenomenon but it’s not as annoying as say the online chat rooms or messengers systems with tons of “hot babes” randomly approaching folks to talk sex . . . then, you know it’s a guy. Way back when I ran the experiemental hypnosis group for women, a good fifteen percent or so of the members turned out to be guys pretending to be girls looking for folks to hypnotize them into becoming women . . . a fetish, not transgended.