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.

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...

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!" or "like a buxom blonde, do you?"

I'm like motherfucker she's British and she's an engineer so I'm choosing to play as her because that's awesome as fuck, not because what's between the legs you fucking buffoon

If she'd started 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.

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. To prove a point I made a level 1 female character 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.

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 keeping my nails short and disliking nail polish, I guess. Who knew even women's hands are expecting to conform to rigid gender expectations?)

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

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.

... and don't get me started on the "birds"

Not being genuine is also bad you know.

It's a Buddhist misquote, it should read "there is suffering in life" but it's often interpreted as "life is suffering."

The intent is to express that our own desires and material wants are often the root causes of our suffering and if we can begin to understand that we can begin to free ourselves from the suffering that occurs in this existence.

But it does sound nihilistic as fuck on its own.

Because no one is going to tolerate attention from someone who hasn't any outside theselves. Just because someone's ego is of a despicable opinion doesn't mean they're not narcissistic. It does mean they don't yet know what the fuck to think about what they see.

Want a short cheat sheet?

Ego exists to create dying

Murder any notion of that sense. You'll never be worth attention from outside youself any time you spot that nonsense.

Just ask the downstairs daddy that eats the dead.

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