Of course it does! Although the joke in particular evokes the old cliche/trope/stereotype of the woman who "loves" a rich man more because he can pay for her nice things than because she genuinely likes him, so my brain reads it as heterosexual. I'd happily read the lesbian version of that, yes sir.
WoW is definitely guilty of some nonsense (hypermasculinizing and hyperfeminizing their designs, for instance; I'm still annoyed about buffed-up blood elf men and supermodeled-up troll women) but they also really kind of have fun with things. Although I was pretty disappointed in Metzen's approach to Thrall/Jaina, there is a lot to work with, a lot of potential and awesome setting stuff, so it's more than possible to take the awesome setting and run with its potential to your little heart out! The MMO aspect is... less encouraging; even RP servers only see RP in the sense of "the pretty elf people gather in the pretty elf people places and walk verrrry slowly while conversing in /say" and either shy away from or outright sneer at anything better.
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WoW is definitely guilty of some nonsense (hypermasculinizing and hyperfeminizing their designs, for instance; I'm still annoyed about buffed-up blood elf men and supermodeled-up troll women) but they also really kind of have fun with things. Although I was pretty disappointed in Metzen's approach to Thrall/Jaina, there is a lot to work with, a lot of potential and awesome setting stuff, so it's more than possible to take the awesome setting and run with its potential to your little heart out! The MMO aspect is... less encouraging; even RP servers only see RP in the sense of "the pretty elf people gather in the pretty elf people places and walk verrrry slowly while conversing in /say" and either shy away from or outright sneer at anything better.
BUT THAT'S WHAT LJ/IM/FORUM RP IS FOR, I GUESS?