Playing as a male character: Man, what a mensch, that was so nice of them
Playing as a female character: Oh jesus, it's some nerd who thinks I'm a girl and this is some weird sex thing isn't it
Playing as a male character: Man, what a mensch, that was so nice of them
Playing as a female character: Oh jesus, it's some nerd who thinks I'm a girl and this is some weird sex thing isn't it
I remember this being a very observable phenomenon playing WoW.
It's a supremely uncomfortable experience, can't imagine how awful it is for women who have to deal with that sort of stuff in real life
The best part if anyone talks to you at all there's always one guy who gets mad at you for 'getting special attention for being a girl' like bruh I'm just standing here.
Or my favourite, when you start trying to communicate with other players (you know, the point of an online game) and one of them gets annoyed at you for being an attention-seeking feeeemale.
It's like women existing at all pisses these people off.
Thats why I play as a male character a lot of the time because:
1.Easier to present as androgynous and get me some gender euphoria
2.People just treat you normal.
I'd take the abuse just for the slightest bit of validation tbh
...but that probably just speaks to my unhealthy mental state.
It's somehow worse in a game than in real life. Games are supposed to be a plaxe of comfort and safety but there's always That Guy.
I got at least 4 weird PMs this way, one of them was a complete dick so i had some fun