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Originally Posted by Cecily
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I think I did that for 1.5 years here. It worked ok for awhile, As people we're scripted to interact one way or the other, depending on gender.
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I'm curious to how saying you're a male to avoid unwanted attention directed towards your gender would effect this. I'm a man, but my chat box isn't filled with vulgar tells from other male players about stuff they wouldn't say in front of a woman. In fact, that sort of stuff is said
way more often in public, or semi-public channels.
Does it mean that they just talk about sports, automobiles or some other stereotypical male driven interest? I care very little about either of those things, and again they never even come up.
The only scripted behaviors I could imagine that would flare up between opposite genders, that don't come up between two individuals of the same gender -- with the exception of the presence of homosexuality (which isn't a big deal) -- is romantic intimacy. If someone is crude then they will be crude, no matter what their audience's gender. I'm uncomfortable with certain topics, and I'll pull the conversation away from them. If you say you're a male in this context, then what you're really doing is making yourself gender neutral. It's similar to de Beauvoir's
the other.
Again, it isn't really right that you should have to resort to this, but I don't see how lying about your gender would be anything but beneficial if you have no intent to instigate or reap any of the effects of being a woman in an environment filled with creepy sexists. I can see how it would be annoying. But, in the end, who cares: unless the point is to highlight the fact that you are a woman -- for the purpose of an equality crusade or otherwise.