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  • Dirt_Owl [comrade/them, they/them]
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    3 years ago

    What? No I don't think they do it for solidarity? Most people think they're dudes anyway? I wasn't talking about that.

    How is gender a "personal" detail? When was the last time someone rold you to get back into the kitchen for having a male voice in an online game? Trust me, there's a reason I don't turn voice chat on in online games but if I had a male voice I wouldn't think twice because that shit doesn't get you harassed. Are you going to tell me sexism doesn't exist next?

      • Dirt_Owl [comrade/them, they/them]
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        3 years ago

        It's funny you should mention women switching to male avatars to avoid rape, because when I played online games I would pretend to be a dude because I would get treated better.

        Theres more to sexism then rape, is what I'm saying. Men that use female avatars in VR chat get to avoid the worst parts of sexism because everyone assumes they're male until proven otherwise "there are no women on the internet, tits or GTFO" is how the old saying goes, isn't it?

          • Dirt_Owl [comrade/them, they/them]
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            3 years ago

            I dunno dude I think we're talking about two different things. Can attraction to anime girls be called benevolent sexism if no one looks like an anime girl in real life?

            Wouldn't that be like saying furries get benevolent sexism too because they're also cute?

            • meme_monster [none/use name]
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              3 years ago

              No one looks like Jenna Jameson irl either but people react to her body in a sexual manner regardless. You are far off into the weeds if you are going to ignore the unreality of VR and the utility of large expressive, clear eyes and skin and how people will more easily interact with fictitious nonthreatening figures with exaggerated markers of health and beauty more readily than with an uncanny valley monstrosity.

              And yes, people will want to fuck the cute bunny cop and are thus more likely to interact with her avatar than with a mangy, three-legged dog avatar. The lack of diseased and disabled avatars is disgustingingly ableist is it not?

                • ugly_disabled_cishet [none/use name]
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                  3 years ago

                  Large eyes are a neotenous feature

                  If the cishet gender-switchers were all chomos then they'd sport 3000 year old dragon loli avatars, so I don't think neoteny is the primary function here. More likely large eyes serve a utility function being highly expressive. But the shape is also an indicator of health, they don't have bug-eyed, hairy, bloodshot, cataract clouded eyes for good reason.

                • what_me_worry [none/use name]
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                  3 years ago

                  It’s not that people like to interact with beautiful/cute people. It’s that men like to interact with beautiful/cute women.

                  There's really no need to genderize this behavior. People of both genders are more likely to ignore a wheelchair bound leper avatar in favor of interacting with an anime cat girl, gay/hetero/cis or not.