Honestly, a not-insignificant contributing factor to my mid-20s gender crisis is that I used to think I was viscerally repulsed by playing as male characters in video games, but eventually I realised it was literally just playing as smarmy brown-haired thirtysomething dudes with an emotional range running the gamut from dull surprise to generic rage that put me off, and basically every other sort of male player character was fine. It's just that this happened to be when the Uncharted series was really taking off, so a solid 50% of all male video game protagonist fit that mould! Nathan Drake sucks so much that he made me question my gender, is what I mean to say.
(karaoke track from here)
"Hm. I don't know what my gender is, but it's definitely not THIS guy."
"games journalism was my bread and butter as a lad but calling everything the "newest dark souls" felt too bad but then one day, to my chagrin, i saw a common thread, i opened up my laptop then, and this is what i said! HEY! Grizzled Thirty-Something Brown-Haired White Male Alcoholic, His wife and kids were murdered so he's rather vitriolic, To say this Guy's in every game would not be hyperbolic. Grizzled Thirty-Something Brown-Haired White Male Alcoholic!"
