Originally Posted by tore

I did a little demography study on my own yesterday in WoW out of curiosity and interviewed a female veteran player on what she thought of genders and players. She wrote that she had stopped playing male avatar characters because she felt she got treated worse as a male in the game. I've only played male characters myself, so I wouldn't know, but when I asked her if male characters in the game had a harder time, she said they definetly do. She also wrote that all her female friends in the game mainly play female characters and that her macho male friends in the game played male characters, but usually had a "trophy female char". When I asked what that meant, she said she meant that they all had one female character that they would sometimes play.

Not a very good or elaborate study, but some potential insights there still