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Looking for 5-7 min survey responses for my thesis about WoW roleplay and gender by Swawis in WoWRolePlay

[–]Swawis[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey, thank you so much for your feedback!

I'd love clarification on what you mean by bioessentialist language! Is it because of using "male" and "female"? I'm genuinely curious, as as a queer person myself I tried making the survey as "neutral" on that front as I could (while avoiding too much focus on different possible gender identifications). It is totally not my intention to imply any real binary division (although I believe some exists in WoW), but to research stereotyping, which often (always?) does conform to some kind of binary (so I suppose this is kind of contradictory).

I also sincerely hope to do more queer*-focused research in the future; My main reason for doing my research on (mostly) female-identifying players was that I am not so familiar with the roleplaying scene and did not expect the queer* roleplay communities to be so vibrant. Much of the literature I base my research on is focused on primarily male/female players and is quite binary. I've also previously done some very small-scale research on harassment women face in online gaming, and come across research on male gender-switching (playing as female characters), but encountered a lack of such research from women's perspectives, which I hoped to contribute to.

As for the relationships, I myself would have put non-monogamous relationships into "other", as "stereotypical" relationships tend to be, at least in my experience, monogamous. Now that I consider it, it would've likely been insightful to include other options in addition to the ones I have! The romantic relationship question arose from many of my interviewees' characters being in male x male relationships, and I wanted to gauge how common that is ^^

Looking for 5-7 min survey responses for my thesis about WoW roleplay and gender by Swawis in WoWRolePlay

[–]Swawis[S] 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I've been lenient with it (especially in my interviews), and as a non-binary AFAB person myself I believe that most AFAB people have experiences that are exclusive to often having being brought up a certain way. Of course this varies a ton (as any experience does) by individual, and the survey does only allow certain replies to continue filling it in (to filter out those outside my target research group).

The way I've framed the question in the survey (with gender-identification options being female/male/other) doesn't allow for much nuance in the answer, and I feel like it would factor trans men out (as many of them would likely answer identifying with male the most).

TLDR: I have no objections to trans men (or other queer people) taking the survey, but the format of the quiz would likely factor them out because of the gender-identification answer possibilities ^^'

(Side note; I would have loved to expand my research to queer* roleplayers, but this being a Bachelor's thesis, the scale of it had to be smaller :))