That’s kind of a weird assumption. What qualifies as pretending? I don’t think I have ever done that.
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Samsy@lemmy.ml 3 weeks agoI bet everyone has pretended to be the opposite sex online. Maybe just for the giggles. But anyone who does that all the time, straight to hell.
abfarid@startrek.website 3 weeks ago
Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I’m a woman on Lemmy with a gender-neutral username, which means I don’t have to try to “pretend” anything - people assume I’m a guy by default. Hell, it also happened back when I was on Reddit and used a female-coded username, which is even more confusing.
I can only imagine the gender performances these guys are putting on if they’re able to easily convince others that they’re women. Some people apparently take “there are no women on the internet” literally and can’t seem to process when women appear online (in a non-porn context, at least. Which is really disheartening.) I’ve had people full-on argue with me that I couldn’t really be female, because I once posted a picture that included my hand and apparently it “wasn’t feminine enough.” That’s what I get for disliking nail polish, I guess.
Malfeasant@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
imagine the gender performances these guys are putting on
Hello, fellow woman. Would you like to go to the bathroom together and have periods?
MotoAsh@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Sorry, I already had my period at lunch. Maybe later for dinner periods?
stingpie@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
There can’t be women online, that’s impossible! Websites aren’t pointlessly gendered!
mr_satan@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Being a woman is gay, so you must be fake.
Conclusion, women on the internet are fake and gay.
LH0ezVT@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Fellas, is it gay to be a woman?
umbrella@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
[deleted]echodot@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
Based on my All feed everyone on Lemmy is either American or, for some reason, German.
RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
Say you’re a girl when you aren’t a girl in order to fool the other person into thinking that you’re a girl
abfarid@startrek.website 3 weeks ago
So if men playing as female avatars in games don’t count (that openly admit to it), then I would say it’s probably a very small group of men who actually do that.
TheSlad@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
I never have on purpose, but in games i like to play as female characters. This was very useful in runescape back in the mid-2000s. Desperate guys would just asume you were a girl IRL and give you free shit asking to be your boyfriend.
Malfeasant@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I play guitar hero as Casey Lynch. I figure why play as who you look like when you can play as who you want to look at?
If I were going for accuracy to body type, I’d have to pick Lars Umlaut…
PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
I got a load of grief for playing Fortnite as Penny, mainly from a family friend who kept banging on about “oh look, that’s his type there!”
I’m like motherfucker she’s British and she’s an engineer so I’m choosing to play as her, not because what’s between the legs you fucking buffoon
If she’s starting popping off about just playing Fortnite I’d have been “yeah fair enough mate, maybe I am a shithead” but the whole implied “you’re a guy so you must fancy her if you’re using a girl model” just really got on my tits… to use a poorly timed expression.
echodot@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
I only ever played beta Fortnite, so I don’t really know who we’re talking about, but I thought all of the characters were generic, I didn’t know there were classes.
PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
It’s been a while since I played, I only get involved in the live events these days.
I don’t think there are classes in Battle Royale, but Save the World had different “classes” in the loosest sense.
bitjunkie@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
All my WoW alts were female because my then-girlfriend thought dudes were giving her all kinds of stuff because she was such a good healer. I made a level 1 and undressed on the Orgrimmar mailbox, and made more gold than her main had in like 10 minutes. Sleeping on the couch was so worth it.
umbrella@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
[deleted]burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
I had an acquaintance who used a voice changer on dnd online, and was both given crazy loot and allowed to act like an absolute ass without consequence. It’s amazing how thirsty some folks can be.
RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
For me it was Habbo Hotel. I’m hearing this sort of shit is rampant on Roblox. It’s nice to know kids are keeping some traditions alive.
PrimeMinisterKeyes@leminal.space 3 weeks ago
I can’t find the original source right now, but a study found that 50% of men pretended at least once in their lives to be women online, whereas 0% of women pretended to be men.
Jiggle_Physics@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
I doubt the 0% part on women. I have met many women who claim to start off indicating they are male in online games, and avoid voice. Once they feel like they have a group of people who aren’t going to perv on them they make their gender known.
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
Thanks for the suggestion. I never thought about it!
janus2@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
or straight to therapy and hopefully a trans supportive community haha (not that it would excuse catfishing)
Diurnambule@jlai.lu 3 weeks ago
I try to not reveal my gender when speaking online. I don’t fell it pertinent and it is nice to be able to act which ever role you chose to at the moment.
burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
Bingo, bango! Whenever gender comes up, I flip a coin for what I’ll answer. With rare exception, gender is meaningless in most places and is only being used by the other side as a red herring at best.
LH0ezVT@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
“Apparently, today I am… the queen of england. Huh.”