On topic:
My personal experience with this is too limited, but my guesstimate is that there is more girls playing RPGs than FPSs online. I love that there is a female population on this server, because generally I get along better with women than with men.
Off topic, but threadrelated:
I don't care if some insecure moron thinks I'm gay for playing a female character. Why?
1. I'm secure with my heterosexuality. I am not attracted to men. If someone wants to call me gay, whatever.
2. I play a character I created before playing FFXI.
3. I prefer looking at a female toon all day instead of one of the male ones. If Aalea hadn't been human (hume) before FF, she would probably had been Mithra.
4. I am not Aalea, I only play Aalea.
5. This is a Role Playing Game. If you identify with your char, fine, if not, fine too!
6. The male toons in this game, with some exceptions (Galka, Pauk-char, Baldy, some of the Elvaans) all look like members of N'Sync/BBB. Tarus are an exception because they are so damn cute, gender notwithstanding.
7. If I /emote with male chars it is with people I know and who knows me, acting in character is part of RPG.
8. No I don't have any desires of acting out the "woman in me". If I were a woman I would probably be gay...
9. Guess you've never played Tomb Raider, since it has a female hero then?
/em gets a headache from reading all those WSM posts...