Weird female privileges online chatrooms/twitch

[CallMeKatie]

So, without posting a photo or putting my age and considering I like watching people play computer games online I decided to join twitch

So here I am, I click on a game I love to watch people play and suddenly find the host happily replying to my every message.
Remember I do not have a photo, age or any other details. Just the name - Katie.

It's like guys are programmed to put you above all others and that is so weird.

[Sephirah]

Not weird. It's a lot of guys online.

Half don't believe that girls could have any interest in gaming, and the other half think they can get in your panties if they talk to you long enough/try hard enough.

Just play any MMO long enough and you'll see how you get treated. One guy wanted to send me naked pictures of himself just because I helped him out. I never told him my gender, he just assumed.

[CallMeKatie]

Not weird. It's a lot of guys online.

Half don't believe that girls could have any interest in gaming, and the other half think they can get in your panties if they talk to you long enough/try hard enough.

Just play any MMO long enough and you'll see how you get treated. One guy wanted to send me naked pictures of himself just because I helped him out. I never told him my gender, he just assumed.

I think it's a bit of both for almost all guys.
It's like oh wow this girl plays games and she saved me from dying thus she must like me and want to have sex with me haha

My friend is a cis guy and he always plays as a female character as people give him stuff online all the time because of it. He doesn't even pretend he's a girl, he just has a sorta girly name online.
If people find out he is a guy he simply says "I was roleplaying"
Haha he's awful

[Kylo]

I have never had any of this happen to me while playing an online game.

On game forums? Yeah. Not often though. Met some doozies on those. There was one guy who like to message me about his erection problems. I didn't know him at all. Another guy from Jordan who was generally unintelligible and said I had to be a whore because I posted a picture of my face in the forum's picture thread. I happened to be the chief mod there, you bet I had some fun dealing with him. Lol.   

I used to play WoW a lot in the past, I feel kind of left out now that nobody sent me an ASCII dick or something at least. All those hours put in, a female character, and not even a sniff? pft

   

[Sephirah]

I used to play WoW a lot in the past, I feel kind of left out now that nobody sent me an ASCII dick or something at least. All those hours put in, a female character, and not even a sniff? pft

   

Yeah, but you're a guy. I mean I know the majority of female characters are guys but it's like you blokes have a sixth sense or something, I dunno. This is WoW I'm talking about. I've had a lot of very... weird encounters. Some kind of creepy. A couple borderline scary. I never tell people my gender, they just assume. One guy said he didn't need to ask because he "just knew". I shrugged and said "fair enough". I can honestly say I've never had the situation crop up where someone has said I was a guy. It's always the assumption that I'm a girl, and I just go with it, because why wouldn't I? Strangely no one has ever asked me outright.

I think that you show your real self more when you're just being yourself, such as in MMO's. And people pick up on that. Online in general, to be honest. I mean here, I get feelings from people. I always have. I get certain vibes from people quite separate from the things they say, or even how they say them.

[Kylo]

I guess I don't give out friendly or sexy vibes, lol.

Definitely not friendly ones, I'm usually chill but people think I'm snarling in my posts.

But I have female friends who are inundated with this stuff for sure. I can't keep track of the people they hang with there are so many. They're usually amused by all this attention though. Especially the lesbians.     

[Sephirah]

I guess I don't give out friendly or sexy vibes, lol.

Definitely not friendly ones, I'm usually chill but people think I'm snarling in my posts.

But I have female friends who are inundated with this stuff for sure. I can't keep track of the people they hang with there are so many. They're usually amused by all this attention though. Especially the lesbians.   

You're right. I know a lot of other women gamers, and a fair proportion love the attention. Most of my friends in WoW were other women and some seemed to get a real kick out of it. I mean they knew nothing was ever going to happen but they seemed happy to have people being interested in them. Not to mention the stuff they could get out of the hapless, lonely men interested in them. It was a bit of a running joke. Because most women know how guys are online, and a good deal aren't above using that to their own ends. In a lot of ways, we're as bad as the guys, just in different ways.

That being said, I did know at least two people who left their husbands/boyfriends to run off with someone else they met in-game. That boggles my mind, frankly, but who am I to judge.

I'm not sure it's about being friendly or sexy. I mean I've told people no end of times to leave me alone, and that I really don't want them to talk to me anymore. But they seem to think I'm lying, or making it up, or playing hard to get. I am SO not sexy, lol. In a game or IRL. I think it's just how you are overall.

I get the feeling from you, Viktor, that you're someone who watches. Who sees a lot but says little. Who thinks a lot and is very precise and articulate with his thoughts. I feel that you distance yourself from people, but that's more a choice than a necessity. Because you spend a lot of time examining yourself, and hold your own self-values to be paramount. That sometimes people see you as cold but that's more down to self-belief and a long time coming to accept yourself. It's not coldness as much as it is you filter the world through your own lens. One which has taken a lot of soul-searching to establish. You have a quiet power about you. One that comes from knowing who you are and what you want. You're very focused, like a laser.

I doubt you could pull off being a girl in any sort of online environment if your life depended on it.