Comment on Anon puts himself out there

• Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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.

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  • Malfeasant@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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?

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    • MotoAsh@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Sorry, I already had my period at lunch. Maybe later for dinner periods?

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  • stingpie@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    There can’t be women online, that’s impossible! Websites aren’t pointlessly gendered!

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  • mr_satan@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Being a woman is gay, so you must be fake.

    Conclusion, women on the internet are fake and gay.

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    • LH0ezVT@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Fellas, is it gay to be a woman?

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  • umbrella@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    back on reddit almost everyone was a white young middle class male westerner, so that was my default assumption

    lemmy sounds way more free and diverse.

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    • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Based on my All feed everyone on Lemmy is either American or, for some reason, German.

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• RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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

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  • abfarid@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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.

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