Poll: Pretending To Be Female

[infohippie]

I am a girl, but I've never used the fact I am a girl to get a guy to do something for me online. Hell, even IRL, I only ever do it as a joke. But seeing how many guys do it to other guys and seeing how well it works for my female friends in real life, I may have to start relying on my feminine wiles more.

Please don't. Those of us guys who don't turn into a slobbering creep when we find out that a fellow gamer is female would much rather see women (and men for that matter) in games who act like normal, intelligent human beings rather than try to use their sexuality to get whatever they want. Girls who do that are creepy and a little bit sad themselves, just like the guys who fall for it.

 

[FuktLogik]

I don't trust anyone saying they're female unless I'm going to be meeting them. People lie to troll, to get off sexually, or various other pathetic reasons, and I'm certainly not loosing anything by assuming they're full of shit until they prove otherwise.

 

[Smooth Operator]

I have pretended to be a girl... sort of.
So this MMO buddy of mine was going on a smartass rampage how he would never fall for these pretend "girls", he can always tell it's a dude, blablabla,... so I wanted to test his salt, made a new char of the female form an added a spiffy name.
Didn't take five minutes from joining his party till he was all over me, and I never even said I was a girl, it was so hilarious
And he didn't much like it when I recited his pickup lines later that day.

The lesson for you kids, everything on the internets can be faked, and don't be a smartass.

And on an honest MMO forum that top choice would be have 99%.

 

[TheRundownRabbit]

No, definitely not. I wouldnt want whatever situation I was in to be turned into an incredibly bad movie

....ehf

 

[Halvhir]

Never have, never would, understand why it happens but stay way the hell away from people who do it.

Much happier playing with cool people who happen to be dudes or ladies than any number of outspoken "girl gamers" who try and be girls first, gamers second.

 

[ThePurpleStuff]

I'm a girl whose made male characters in online games before, I usually prefer to depending on the art style or look of the game/character/armor etc. But quite a lot of times, I'd play as a girl, with this girly sounding username and be called a guy constantly, it's annoying.

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

So I have a question for you, what do you guys think, and have you ever pretended to be female to get things?
If yes, did it work?
If no, would you, given the oppurtunity?

I've played a female quite often, and it's true. You do get a lot of stuff for free, you do get a lot of leeway on how you play the character and you do get hit on.

(That's always funny when you have to explain)

What I would do is say to most women, try playing a completely male character - and make no reference to your gender - and then see how differently you get treated. See how many start telling anti-women jokes, swearing and yelling at you if you're not 100% accurate.

There's a few that will suss - but go with the majority.

 

[Fiad]

Yes I have pretended to be female. Never to get things though, just to mess with people. Mostly on Omegle and chatroulette. I am apparently fairly feminine looking, so I get on cam and guys try hitting on me, both funny and sad really.

 

[RivFader86]

i only play female characters and have never got any special treatment (good or bad) because someone thought i was female irl (never pretended to either)

 

[drisky]

I have found that when playing a female avatar, people of both genders treat me better. Hell a girl was offering to give me some avatar mods in Dungeon Fighter Online, (in which you can't pick your gender for most classes) which cost real life money. I have a feminine personality and when people make there own conclusions as to what I look like in real life, they are far more open to me. And in a way it's kind of depressing.

 

[Imperium9990]

No I haven't, and I wouldn't because that's freaking weird.

 

[AwesomeSuperMelon]

Not as much as I have pretended to be female as I had a female character. In the MMO's people knew I was a he, and I never told anyone anything else. I do it because in my mind I create stories when playing games (even if they have a story already) and sometimes the main character of the story i my head is female, so I play accordingly. Bit weird some may say, but hey, I don't care. It entertains me.

 

[Xyless]

One time, on my friend's TF2 server, a little kid showed up while we were playing bball2. He kept using the sniper, and was raving about his amazing skills (he wasn't that good). So one of my friends and I decided to mess with him. He (my friend) is good with voice acting, so he started to use his amazing Scottish voice while I used my little girl voice (surprisingly accurate) to hit on him.

Well, maybe not "hit on" him, but I kept saying things like "you're so cute and amazing can you take me to my school dance?" and when the boy turned me down, my friend would respond with "aw, yer gonna let this poor lass down? she really has her hopes on you"

Eventually the kid accepted, and then we kicked him because he was acting like a dick on the server anyways.

 

[Hristo Tzonkov]

I've done it a few times with a friend on WoW.We pretended we were a couple and we changed the female part every so and so to keep it funny.Oh and we talked a lot about sex to see reactions which are pretty much hilarious most of the time as people desperately try to fit in the sex conversation without having any experience.

 

[Firia]

I'm surprised by the lack of 'yes' answers.

I think the opposite happens a lot more: Females who play males to keep the creeps away.

When Playstation Home was first released, you could voice chat anywhere. I made my avatar as close to me as I could, and set out into the extremely limited world. People would keep doing the running man (which was as close to humping as the emotes got) right on my ass. So I in turn made a model of a tall redheaded afro guy. I'd swap to that every time I'd get the troll on me. They'd stop right away. I eventually just left the avatar running.

(then people thought I was a 12 y/o boy with a mans avatar.... so I just stopped visiting PS Home.)

 

[Jake Lewis Clayton]

i've had one or two female characters on mmorpgs, just because i wanted the armor to look different or the experience to be shaken up a little, and guildies/interested people who ask find out i'm male.

Never turned round to someone and said, i'm a woman give me coins though.

 

[Mariena]

Well, I am female .. and often enough, when you get down to guild business, it all ends up on Ventrilo or something anyway. Kinda hard to fool that one, I'd imagine.

I've pretended to be a guy though, a few times. :3

 

[Farotsu]

From the other point of view, if a girl tries to get something from me by just using the fact that she's a she, I lose interest really fast. Be it the internet or IRL. Sure if you push your tits at my face I do enjoy the experience but it still won't get you anywhere. Heck one girl thought that I hated her because I didn't do what she asked when she tried that trick on me.

Never pretended anything like that myself and I wouldn't try to get free stuff from it. Doesn't make much sense to me as I want to get that stuff myself.

Edit: Oh and it's pretty frustrating when people mistake me for a female IRL because I have long hair. I mean I have a pretty long beard too and people still make the mistake when pass by my workspot. I'd cut my hair but the two girls that I irregularily sleep with like it so... One of them threatened to shave her head bald if I did so it's still growing...

 

[Kopikatsu]

Every female character I make in a game without voice chat, I do exactly that.

Works every. Damned. Time. No regrets. I mean, it is a video game, after all.

Heck, everyone I know on Guild Wars still think I'm the girl I pulled from a google image search onto their guild forums.. they'll never figure it out.

I did this, too.

Interestingly, I never did the 'Oh baby, you're so hot. If you give me all of your best items, I might go out with you...' thing that alot of guys do. I basically acted like a gigantic asshole. Apparently not only is that acceptable behavior for a woman, but it gets guys to fawn over you and drown you in fun trinkets.

There's your secret to life! Be an asshole and everything falls into place.

 

[NecroFantasy]

I've never pesonally, but I've got a male friend's who online handle is always this:

'lydiababy'

Seriously. You have no idea how many times he's gotten help from other people 'just because they feel like helping'. The hilarious part is that we once went to an Internet cafe to play together and he got hit on by different 5 guys in 20 minutes.

Then I burst their bubbles by saying 'you do know he's a guy... right...?'

Reactions ranged from 'oh, I knew that' (blatant lies) to 'ew, fuck off'