Following what was mentioned in the last lecture, I found the issue of gender bending quite interesting.
Out of curiosity has anyone ever pretended to be the opposite sex online? In my experience I've been mistaken as a guy a number of times, and a few times I have quietly let that assumption do what it liked without saying anything. The main difference is that people are far more forecoming with you if they don't think you're female.
Which leads to another question: what allures men to be girls online? (apart from the obvious sexual fantasies of some)
Has anyone found the claimed sex of someone's online persona unconvincing?
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I've had female characters in games before (eg, Guild Wars), but not pretended to actually be a female.
I'm a little surprised that people were less forthcoming knowing that you were a girl? It's still all anonymous.. *shrug* May I ask what situation it was? Like, game/forum/chatroom/etc?
It was on IRC. Maybe it was the chatroom I was in, since as I was talking another user logged on who was known to be a girl, and everyone shut up :/
I haven't played many online games. The closest I've come is Second Life, and one of the first questions I'm asked is "are you a girl?" and I usually think does it really matter?
I haven't posed as a male online, though I've been a registered user on a site on which gender is anonymous, unless anyone specifically wishes to reveal it. Because of the nature of the site (it's a site for guitar tabs) there may be some preconceived ideas by some that males would be the predominant users of it.
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