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hkellickThe damned Baltimore server is piffy today. That keeps making my connection from here to ChaoticMUX piffle off. *unhappy look* So I keep losing it.. even in the middle of a decently good conversation.
The topic of the conversation: what makes people certain what sex you are online. I was recently informed by a newbie on ChaoticMUX that she thought I was a girl. Why? First off, my name, LITE.. apparently a female-sounding name (how, I dun get) and that my default picture used to be Smokey, my lap-fungus (aka the gray cat) ( I was informed that, supposedly, men like dogs and women like cats. What the heck is that? I like cats AND dogs. Both are outstanding pets for different reasons.). Then the conversation turned into people who roleplay on places like MUDs as the opposite sex (The majority of these people being male pretending to be female). Then he mentioned that he KNEW they were men because they talked male. I guess that one, more than the rest of the conversation, got my attention. How does a male TALK? *boggles* Unfortunately, I haven't been able to find, for myself, a satisfactory answer to how men talk, simply because I can think of many cases of women who can talk just as down and dirty as men.
This all stems from my personal belief that the only difference between men and women are those that society puts on us (well, and the obvious physical differences, but with the correct clothes/surgery, physical differences can be changed). I was informed sometime this past week by a friend that, being male, we got the short end of the hormone stick. I disagree. I know many women who are as horny as your average male, even hornier.
I dunno. Like I said, I think the only differences are the ones we put on ourselvesor that society puts on us.
The topic of the conversation: what makes people certain what sex you are online. I was recently informed by a newbie on ChaoticMUX that she thought I was a girl. Why? First off, my name, LITE.. apparently a female-sounding name (how, I dun get) and that my default picture used to be Smokey, my lap-fungus (aka the gray cat) ( I was informed that, supposedly, men like dogs and women like cats. What the heck is that? I like cats AND dogs. Both are outstanding pets for different reasons.). Then the conversation turned into people who roleplay on places like MUDs as the opposite sex (The majority of these people being male pretending to be female). Then he mentioned that he KNEW they were men because they talked male. I guess that one, more than the rest of the conversation, got my attention. How does a male TALK? *boggles* Unfortunately, I haven't been able to find, for myself, a satisfactory answer to how men talk, simply because I can think of many cases of women who can talk just as down and dirty as men.
This all stems from my personal belief that the only difference between men and women are those that society puts on us (well, and the obvious physical differences, but with the correct clothes/surgery, physical differences can be changed). I was informed sometime this past week by a friend that, being male, we got the short end of the hormone stick. I disagree. I know many women who are as horny as your average male, even hornier.
I dunno. Like I said, I think the only differences are the ones we put on ourselvesor that society puts on us.
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Pretending
Date: 2001-07-24 10:24 am (UTC)Re: Pretending
Date: 2001-07-24 10:43 am (UTC)Usually any description referring to heaving full bosoms pulled taut in (fill in the blank outift) is a pretty good clue that the person describing themselves is probably not a woman :)
Forgot to mention
Date: 2001-07-24 11:00 am (UTC)Re: Forgot to mention
Date: 2001-07-24 06:35 pm (UTC)I don't see the shame in preferring cats to dogs or dogs to cats simply because yer male.. or female.
*shrug*
Call me silly, tho