![]() There are, in fact, certain places where women now dominate the community, such as in Fan Fiction sites, Soap Opera boards, Facebook, Second Life, LiveJournal and its clones (particularly in Journal Roleplay) or Myspace. ![]() It's still good to keep in mind that some people will not take your advice seriously and that sometimes the software distorts or changes the voice so that people will question your sex regardless. With the advent of Voice over IP it's pretty obvious who's female (at least physically) as your voice will "give you away". You can still see this to some degree in the gaming community, but that too is fading with time. Nowadays, the lingering sentiment can only be seen as a meme in certain corners of the Internet and in people's assumption that anyone they meet online is male unless obviously otherwise. Nowadays, of course, attempting this usually elicits the aforementioned righteous screeching, deservedly so. Part of the paranoia was justified on the early internet by both GIRLs and even some actual girls, taking advantage of the fact that the internet had a great number of socially awkward males who were easily duped into thinking this girl who was paying attention to them was seriously interested in dating them, if only they 'proved' their affection with gifts and special privileges. Girls naturally responded to this by pretending to be men just to avoid the verbal harassment and righteous screeching. Even a vague mention of a boyfriend or husband as an aside would get these righteous Internet College Males screeching in rage that you were an evil Attention Whore pretending to be female to get things. Not proving it or refusing to share pictures means that you would be assumed to be male and only pretending to be female for the attention or (if in a game) free items. Of course, proving you are female online is something of a conundrum, since any pictures or voice you present as proof can just as easily have come from a sister, girlfriend, or random site-which thanks to webcams was later solved by asking for a "timestamp", a picture with the current date, time, and a certain message (which could still be pictured with a woman who just happened to be near the actual poster, but it helps). This led to anyone claiming to be female to instantly be accosted with demands of "proof" (eventually codified as "Tits or GTFO"). Sadly, men pretending to be women became even more common as well it soon became obvious that announcing you were female online (and thus a geek girl) was a surefire way to win lots of attention and accommodation from other users, even to the point of them being tricked into mailing gifts, cash, or performing other favors. While you might occasionally find a person with a genuine female identity in general anyone you met with a female username was actually male.Īs the Internet grew, women became more common. An Internet trope that was originally true, then an attitude in general, and finally a meme with only lingering traces left.īack in the dim recesses of history, the Internet was predominately populated by young male nerds.
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