What determines what gender you choose for your characters?

[DoucLangur]

When creating a new character, I have a certain idea in mind, of how I wanna play that - and typically that idea comes with a gender. Other than that, I choose by whatever character name I can come up with and whatever gender fits that best.

I play both male and female characters (since 2001) and I have never had creepy dudes coming at me... There's been questions "are you a girl in r/l?" but that's about it. Not sure if it might get annoying when you answer "yes" to that question... I normally do not ask people because I don't care what gender the player behind the toon is. And after making conversation for a while, I can usually tell anyways.

I think male players who argue "I am male thus OF COURSE(!!!) I play male characters" are insecure.