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In remembering that only TWO of my characters in the past seven/eight years have ever dipped as low as 19 years old. Seriously, with one exception (a group RP that required the ages be set at high school levels), that's as low as I've ever gone.

That counts my PPC characters so far, by the way, and totals to about ten or eleven different guys in total (but always guys. I'm a guy, it makes sense to write what I know).

I am sometimes worried by all those heavily sexualized Mary Sues (slim, big breasts, revealing clothes) who are self-inserts of 14-year-old Suethors with no first-hand romantic experience. For characters who are supposed to be perfect, Sues often lack a particular power: that of escaping the patriarchal mindset of our society. Sure, sexual emancipation of women is one of the things feminists have long fought for, and I fully support it. But some Sues are insults to the whole female gender, and it grieves me to know how young and influenceable the Suethors who created them usually are.