I am a female, and play as a female when possible because, as someone stated earlier in the thread, a lot of times I don't have a choice and I have to play a male character. Which is fine, and doesn't really bother me, but given the choice, I like to be a badass female instead of a badass male. But she rarely looks like me, so in that way she's not representative of me. And I never choose human if given the choice to be something else. The fun of games is that we get to escape reality for a bit. So if you get to choose your character, you don't always have to make a digital version of yourself. Be the opposite sex. Be a different species. Sport a blue mohawk and a face tattoo. Whatever. I don't see why it should matter to anyone what avatar a person chooses.