Now I feel terribly excluded!

I'm female. In Real Life I am not and have never been a girly girl. Despite the best efforts of my parents and various other relatives of their generation, I have zero interest in dresses, shoes, handbags, make-up, babies, slushy love stories or things coloured pink. So I don't want to roleplay some girly girl stereotype: I've been fighting tooth and nail to avoid conforming to that all my life. Why the hell would I want to do it in my hobby time?
At con games I'm uninterested in 'token' female characters. A mate of mine made my blood boil because the only female characters in his pulp game were the cliches of the Plucky Girl Reporter and the Escaped Concubine (translation: ex sex slave) and he kept saying "oh but it is appropriate for the genre". Yeah because in a game with Martians, ghosts and triffids, you couldn't possibly make the imaginative leap to make the Big Game Hunter or the Retired Airship Pilot a woman.
Mostly I play male characters. Playing a manly man stereotype is interesting, because no-one IRL has ever tried to force me to be a manly man. (I also play non manly men).
For con games I try to do double-sided character sheets. Both sides are identical, apart from the picture: guy on one side, gal on the other. I use photos of actors, not necessarily for a game about that TV series (e.g. I use Bluestone 42, Our Girl, The Unit and various movies for my military science fiction games) . Pick the side of the character sheet you want, assign them the gender and sexuality you want.
I'm female. In Real Life I am not and have never been a girly girl. Despite the best efforts of my parents and various other relatives of their generation, I have zero interest in dresses, shoes, handbags, make-up, babies, slushy love stories or things coloured pink. So I don't want to roleplay some girly girl stereotype: I've been fighting tooth and nail to avoid conforming to that all my life. Why the hell would I want to do it in my hobby time?
At con games I'm uninterested in 'token' female characters. A mate of mine made my blood boil because the only female characters in his pulp game were the cliches of the Plucky Girl Reporter and the Escaped Concubine (translation: ex sex slave) and he kept saying "oh but it is appropriate for the genre". Yeah because in a game with Martians, ghosts and triffids, you couldn't possibly make the imaginative leap to make the Big Game Hunter or the Retired Airship Pilot a woman.
Mostly I play male characters. Playing a manly man stereotype is interesting, because no-one IRL has ever tried to force me to be a manly man. (I also play non manly men).
For con games I try to do double-sided character sheets. Both sides are identical, apart from the picture: guy on one side, gal on the other. I use photos of actors, not necessarily for a game about that TV series (e.g. I use Bluestone 42, Our Girl, The Unit and various movies for my military science fiction games) . Pick the side of the character sheet you want, assign them the gender and sexuality you want.