Role-playing is Hard

Some thoughts on the ease of good roleplaying indirectly provoked by discussion here on cross-gender roleplay:

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I don't know what my final point is. Just that roleplaying is a lot less easy for me than it seems for others. As for playing female characters, I've got old rasfw discussions on whether male authors could write female characters in the back of my head. Anyone want to imagine Heinlein or Doc Smith doing female roleplay?

UPDATE: Obviously, I'm not the only one to think about such things.