I had a great reply written out and realized this wasn't RnF :( I'd just like to say as P99's premiere princess that I don't feel I've ever gotten the respect I deserve due to my choice of character and incorrect tone of voice. Ain't that some shit.

o.O

since when can people tell what sex you are by your avatar? or do you mean in game sex in which case i don't think it matters.

if its a problem you don't have to tell every person you meet, hi im a woman irl.

The problem is, every person you meet will ask you that.

I've gotta say the level of discourse in this thread is a lot higher than I expected. Lots of good points all around. I don't have any to add, though :p

I never ask if someone is a girl IRL cause i don't really care, im not on eq to have elf cyber. Lets duo this evening though cecily, if u know what i mean bby.

The majority of my characters on p99 have been female, not once has anyone ever asked me if i was female irl.

Maybe I'm juts so macho it exudes through my avatar and people just know.

also you don't have to answer when someone asks about your real life

Literally never once been asked if I'm a guy. TBH it's quite rude.

I don't think that it is acceptable that the first reply to a post on female experiences in EQ refers to women as whores.
Racism and homophobia aren't acceptable, so why is misogyny? If we casually refer to women as whores, even as a joke, then we create an atmosphere of low-level sexism and intimidation which leads to the mistreatment of women.
Have a look at the everyday sexism project
http://www.everydaysexism.com/
which gives 1000s of examples of, well, everyday sexism.

On the main point, as a male, no-one ever flirts with me online, probably because i'm double ugly (ugly on the inside, ugly on the outside). Playing a female toon in another game, someone was being pretty friendly and asked me how old i was. I replied "old and male" and he felt a little sheepish after that.

I have to say that I play to level up, have fun, get fat loots, but not really to chat with members of the opposite sex. And if people ask me RL questions that I'm not comfortable with, like the other posters suggest, I just answer as my toon "i'm a troll, i come from grobb"

I don't play female characters because females have cuties.