Pretending to be a girl?

[Combo]

I feel like females get more attention than males, mainly because apparently everyone on the internet is a male, and when you manage to prove your a female or adamantly claim you're female, that attention explodes.

This although I've never signed up to a forum pretending to be a female.

 

[Hulk's iconHulk]

but its sick when they start flirting with the same sex

Ummm.... males flirt with males all the time. Are you trying to be homophobic?

 

[Icetex's iconIcetex]

not like anyone done before
i mean i did for jokes

 

[Nebulous's iconNebulous]

but its sick when they start flirting with the same sex

Ummm.... males flirt with males all the time. Are you trying to be homophobic?

Its sick to trick someone into thinking they're flirting with a female when they're really not.

 

[Cedric]

cuz they attentionwhores.

 

[+paradox]

maybe i should pretend to be a girl...

warning: explicit context

Spoiler

i'd be the sluttiest girl on the net, flirting with all the hott guys...

*cough* *in a girls voice* hey boys, how are y'all tonight? want to sex chat with a fine asian 19 year old lesbian? i'm horny and wet, ready to play...

too much?  

 

[MrDawn]

Why do you think males go around forums (and websites) pretending to be a female?  Any opinions on this subject?

Yeah.I think they do it for the attention or to get a laugh. If not that, than I don't know what to label it.

 

[Nebulous's iconNebulous]

cuz they attentionwhores.  

That's probably it!

Or they are confused and exploring what its like to get attention from another guy?

 

[Crys]

For the life of me, I have no idea.

 

[Black Angel]

Why do you think males go around forums (and websites) pretending to be a female? Any opinions on this subject?

They are probably pedophiles looking to get some NSFW pics from kids.. this would be one way to do it.. pretend to be a teen (regardless of gender, but it is usually them pretending to be a girl) and make some nsfw posts to get some gullible teen to respond and then use a fake pic to get him to let his guard down and then when he shows you his, you add it to your collection.

No, I have NOT done this, however, I have accidentally encountered a forum like this and on IF no less.. and this came directly from the owner herself.. and as soon as I figured out where I was, and what was on the forum, I reported that shit and the one on PB as well run by the same people.

They actually linked to the new forum on PB and abandoned the IF forum because of the server outages..

I ended up at this forum because I from the IF directory and they were listed as a GFX forum.. I didnt want to scroll for days looking through the boards with astronomical members and posts, because they usually had egos to match.. and after dealing with immature shit from certain cliquish designers on PB especially from those on SSD and other design sites, I decided to try and learn how to make my own gfx and skins.

Anyway, on this day, I decided to list in reverse order and I randomly picked a page and then clicked on the first forum I saw. I forgot the name but these people used the words elf and elven a lot.. I didn't think much of it and figured that it was a gfx forum dedicated to LOTR or some other fantasy shit.

It wasn't.. it was actually a dogwhistle code for children. I guess they didnt want to get flagged or look suspicious to be talking about kids on a forum that is meant for gfx..

At any rate, I clicked around what looked like a dead but once very active forum, and I didnt see any tutorials or anything like that.. which I thought was odd but figured that it might've been hidden to guests or something.. so I joined.. and just as I suspected, there was the tutorial section, which didnt have much in it and a premium gfx section..

I went there and the first thing I see is pictures of children in various states of undress and the people in the threads were posting about what they would do, and worse, have done to the children around them. I took screenshots of everything I could and before I left, I clicked on what was an FAQ thread where the admin was answering people's questions..

I ended up in a multi-page thread in which someone asked the admin how they managed to get such a large collection and asked for tips on how they could do the same.

And the admin replied with what I said in the first part of my post damn near verbatim. And the worst part of it, was that she was supplying pictures of her OWN kids in that thread.. and she wasn't the only parent doing so. Stuff like this is why I believe that some parents out there truly hate their kids.

I was horrified and angry and it made me sick.. and after I read her response to the question that some one asked her regarding how she got her collection. I left.

I sent the TOS report using the form on the IF homepage, but I then went on to IF Support and contacted one of the admins and told them what I saw and I gave them the url to the board and sent them the screenshots and the admin said that he would send it to Brandon.

After that, I then went to that PB forum that was run by the same people registered with the same throwaway alias and did the same thing. Their content on the PB forum was much worse.

MUCH WORSE..

After I took the screenshots, I logged off and reported the forum using the TOS form and then I logged into my account on PBS and pmed an admin, and showed him both the screenshots I took from both forums and included a link to both so that he could see for himself and I told him to make sure that he keeps the evidence safe because I will be deleting it off of my pc as soon as I can.

And I did exactly that. I deleted the screenshots and ended up replacing the hdd because it was starting to get a death rattle. I didnt even wait to get confirmation that the forum was deleted or that the host owners saw my report. I just didnt want to remember anything about that place.. and I deleted the throwaway email I used to register on both sites.

This experience not only made me even more against sharing my pics online, but I told my mother and my brother and sis-in-law not to either, and when they asked me why, I told them exactly what I saw.. my brother listened and he actually checks the pics before he allows them to be posted.

Anyway, I don't pretend to be a gender that I am not.. I just dont specify, or rather, back then I didn't, and on forums that I am not comfortable with I just don't answer that question.. and I try not to post anything that can blow my cover either.. The attention that we get online as soon as someone finds out you are a female is seriously disturbing. And I honestly don't understand it, nor want to, but it does make me wonder just what is going through their mind when guys do shit like this.

 

[Webster]

Any opinions on this subject?

TV Tropes has a few pages dedicated to gender topics and the one that immediately came to mind was....

Cross Player - TV Tropes

A Cross Player is a person in either real life or a show whose Digital Avatar or customized video-game character is of a different gender. The name comes from "crossplay," a subset of cosplay where one dresses as a character of a different gender …

tvtropes.org

A Cross Player is a person in either real life or a show whose Digital Avatar or customized video-game character is of a different gender.

The name comes from "crossplay," a subset of cosplay where one dresses as a character of a different gender. It's also worth noting that crossplayers aren't exclusively men playing women; occasionally women play as male characters, one reason being to be treated as One of the Boys, the other being that all the best characters are guys. Both this trope and the aforementioned cosplays are also commonly used as an outlet by closeted transgender folk.

Crossplayers are usually quite up-front about their real life gender—and simply prefer avatars of a different gender for aesthetic reasons, like seeing the Impossibly Cool female version of armor models or certain content is gender-locked. A common defense of crossplay is "If I have to look at an ass all day, I'd prefer a nice one" when a Third-Person camera is involved. Less frequently, it's for the sake of role-play.

Whatever the reason, crossplayers are pretty common in modern MMORPGs, and very few people see it as a big deal. The term is sometimes used to describe someone who plays a character of a different gender in a Tabletop RPG.

Contrast with the G.I.R.L., when a cross player is actively pretending to be one of the other gender. See also There Are No Girls on the Internet, for the (mostly) discredited phenomenon of users assuming everyone online was male. Obviously not the same as a real-life Cross Dresser, and also is different from Cross-Dressing Voices or people who play multiplayer games with people on other consoles.

Now, have I used a female avatar in the past on both forums/Discord servers?

Yes, in both sets of places and I had no problem doing so; you especially see the above on roleplaying forums/servers - for instance, thinking about all the RP characters I've ever created for all the RP sites I've been a part of, a good 60-70 percent of the characters were female characters so that one part above (..."
Crossplayers are usually quite up-front about their real life gender—and simply prefer avatars of a different gender for aesthetic reasons, like seeing the Impossibly Cool female version of armor models or certain content is gender-locked. A common defense of crossplay is "If I have to look at an ass all day, I'd prefer a nice one" when a Third-Person camera is involved. Less frequently, it's for the sake of role-play." -- With all due respect to the Tropes, its' a helluva lot more common in roleplaying than they say above)

As for forums, on this one Liverpool FC fan forum that I help admin, there was about a 5-6 year period where my avatar there was either one of indie musician Tegan Quin or actor Lena Headey from her time as Sarah Connor on the Terminator franchise's TV spinoff series and no one during that period had a problem with it whatsoever. In most cases its' really just up to (and should just be up to) the individual member's choice, provided others have no problem with it.