Dude because reasons. I mean every little girl wants to be a huge dude with a beard.
Or was it the other way around? Well, you got the gist of it.

I play both. The reason: RNG tends to pick genders 50/50.

My characters are an extended family of adopted brothers and sisters who share the wealth, weapons and jewelry. The armor is enchanted to fit everyone regardless of sex, height or body type. The cooking is all done by a male Altmer 'cause men are the best cooks (ducks.) All the armor and weapon smithing is done by my rather muscular and fierce female orc.

It's a family of Altmers and Bosmers, Bretons and Redguards, Orcs, Imperials and Dunmer. We were reluctant to let a Khajiit into the family but he was a cute kitten and rather easy to house train.

Just no Nords because, you know, the drinking. No Argonians yet either but that doesn't mean we don't like them... some of my best friends are Argonian.

I play a murderous androgynous lizard, what kind of a personality disorder is that?

Made my first female character yesterday. Got 6 men. Going for an imperial baspler. I think she's gonna be my favourite one she's old, grey, battle scarred and hard as nails!

Like many people, I play both, for a variety of reasons. Most of my characters are built with quasi-RP "roles" in mind. I usually build at least one analog of myself, sometimes 2 (part of me is very rogue-ish, and sometimes I'm very paladin-like, so I often build 1 of each to express my 2 most prominent personalities).

Then, I almost always build a female mage - it's complicated as to the why, but female sorcerers/wizards/spellcasters have become a staple in my head of the fantasy genre. and I always want at least 1 female because having a stag party of fantasy adventurers seems both unrealistic and a little boring.

afterwards, I build characters mostly based on what I feel is appropriate to the world, which storytelling "roles" seem to be missing and need to be filled and/or would be fun to experiment with, and some personal preferences. Currently, out of 8 characters I have 6 men and 2 women, 1 female breton sorceress, and 1 female altmer dragonknight, because I found it interesting to try and build a dramatically non-traditional character archtype, and that was about as far in the direction of different I could think of...all of my men are mildly interesting experiments (khajit chef nightblade, argonian dragonknight ...because dragon...dunmer jackass surly sorcerer, and imp pact templar because 1 templar wasn't enough)

anyway, feel free to wildly speculate on the psychology behind my choices - however, be warned, if your conclusions are anything beyond the reasons I've mentioned above, then you're wrong - I'm the best authority on my own motivations, and anyone claiming to know why I do something better than I know why is severely overestimating their mastery of my personal psychology

I always pick male for sex, but gender is a bit more complicated. I tend to vacillate somewhere between "male-identifying" and either "gender neutral" or "agender", depending on the character. I've considered making third-gender characters but honestly don't know enough about a culture in or out of game to emulate that properly.

In most all games I play that has the option... My casters are usually always female, they usually always wear robes/dresses so they just look better in my opinion.

My melee are usually always male.

Even though we have costumes and appearance changes now, I still feel like my casters should stay female lol

I don't know, I've always been like this and prefer it this way.

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Third person means I don't want to be looking at a man's ass all day

I looked at a man's ass through an entire trilogy as Commander Shepard.

male because i'm a male, thats it

i love to play games with character customization is because i can create ME inside the game, i can pretend the character is me, and trying to be immerse into the game

I'm gay and I'm gonna look at the bootay I like to look at.

Because I am female, and my characters are an extension of me.

The only way I would play a male would be if I were an RPer, and I had a male character as one of my RP characters.

I'll play either depending on what "feels", right to me for the character. I tend to spend a lot of time in the customization for an game that lets me, looking for a set up that speaks to me and I'll choose a gender based on that.

I prefer to play my own gender for immersion purposes - and I feel this way with pretty much all games.
I don't mind playing male characters, if it is a set part of the game. But when the choice is there I go female