I know a lot of guys who take the position of rather playing a female character because they'd prefer to look at the backside of a female all day rather than a male.
Personally, I've always picked a mix depending on what I'm playing. For Guild Wars, I have a variety of male and female characters. They're often based on whatever look I want to go for or possibly the particular dance of the male or female gets of a profession. For the latest chapter I went with all male because I wanted an elementalist with an afro and the two new professions had Jackson's Beat It dance & Christopher Walken's dance in the Fatboy Slim video. They also had the better designs for the new males. The females were pretty fugly.
If there's no outside factors, I'll pick a female character over a male.
To cash in my CC rewards points for $300 in Circuit City gift cards to purchase a 360 or not: That is the question.
