2012 Survivor's Party @ Drakow's House Page 55

Started by Honest September 22nd, 2012 4:38 PM
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Frostweaver

Ancient + Prehistoric

Age 34
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Canada
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Posted July 30th, 2016
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I'm going to go with the terrible sexist stereotype: "assume male unless stated otherwise."

Though I myself generally use female avatars too if there's characters in it, onionhead being the exception. As for the masculine pronoun problem, erm I guess that we can blame English. Another +1 to Japanese in a Pokemon board.

Ice Car

Banned

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Oahu, Hawaii
Seen November 12th, 2012
Posted November 12th, 2012
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13.2 Years
Idgi. You say you hate gender bending and Hikari claims (Stress on 'claims') to be a genderbender.
I don't hate "gender bending."

I'm going to go with the terrible sexist stereotype: "assume male unless stated otherwise."

Though I myself generally use female avatars too if there's characters in it, onionhead being the exception. As for the masculine pronoun problem, erm I guess that we can blame English. Another +1 to Japanese in a Pokemon board.
Pretty much this.

You can't help but assume when avatar, signature, and posting style match up so that it seems very much so. (See: MidnightShine)

Oryx

CoquettishCat

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I don't think you understand the novelty of gender bending, in that you can **** with people.
I understand it and find it really rude and unnecessary. As someone who can be socially anxious in real life, I can understand people with social anxiety online, and feeling like they don't know how to refer to a person because they keep switching genders really adds to that anxiety and I just can't get behind intentionally upsetting people for the sole reason that they tried to refer to you on the internet. HOW DARE THEY


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Retro Bug

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Maaybe I'm not around enough gender benders but I don't see how it upsets people... If you're unsure of someone's gender why don't you just ask them? Or ask them what pronouns you should refer to them as. I didn't know it was that hard to do or offensive. Like, why is it even important? You can say "they" or other gender neutral pronouns.

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Ice Car

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I understand it and find it really rude and unnecessary. As someone who can be socially anxious in real life, I can understand people with social anxiety online, and feeling like they don't know how to refer to a person because they keep switching genders really adds to that anxiety and I just can't get behind intentionally upsetting people for the sole reason that they tried to refer to you on the internet. HOW DARE THEY
I can perfectly understand your opinion.

I don't know, I find it kind of gratifying to have successfully tricked someone.

Oryx

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I guess I'm just more sensitive to the emotions of other people. I can't enjoy doing something if it upset/harmed another person, pranks are only fun when the victim isn't upset by it for me, lol. I really can't wrap my head around the other mindset because I've never been even close to it.

Edit: Live go away you have a politics thread go talk in that


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Tyrantrum

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I think gender-bending can be fine if you're not comfortable with putting your real gender online, I guess. Or if you identify as a gender opposite of your given gender at birth. But to do it just to purposely screw with people is pretty messed up, honestly... :\

Like what Toujours said, basically; I kind of grew a bit of anxiety when referring to other peoples' genders on here because I usually think some of them are gender bending, unless something - like a post or VM or something - proves that they are not.

Ice Car

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Can we talk about the important things again aka the election
You mean talk about something that already has its own thread for that specific topic in a different thread?

http://www.pokecommunity.com/showthread.php?t=286344

Can we continue the discussion there, I mean, there IS a thread for it. Why does the topic have to drag on into a different thread?

alisaie

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I used to change genders depending on what theme I was and what gender the person in my theme was. Not to genderbend but just to match the theme as a whole. The only thing I didn't change would have been my location since it's been the same since I joined. But now I'm just not listed (... I don't think I am. I don't have gender being listed in the postbit) because ... i'm not sure why. But I think it's obvious enough that I am female and I correct people who assume me to be male.

As for the elections ... I think I'm pretty done for the night. Doesn't look like I'll be getting my state's results tonight. Gdit Florida.

Ice Car

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I used to change genders depending on what theme I was and what gender the person in my theme was. Not to genderbend but just to match the theme as a whole. The only thing I didn't change would have been my location since it's been the same since I joined. But now I'm just not listed (... I don't think I am. I don't have gender being listed in the postbit) because ... i'm not sure why. But I think it's obvious enough that I am female and I correct people who assume me to be male.

As for the elections ... I think I'm pretty done for the night. Doesn't look like I'll be getting my state's results tonight. Gdit Florida.
I don't know. You seem to type like a normal person. Gender ambiguous. Usually when I think of how a female types, it's with lots of smileys and overzealous use of exclamation points and question marks.

Trying to determine a person's gender from the way they type is difficult in general.

Meganium

memento mori

she/her
Houston, TX
Seen February 1st, 2023
Posted February 1st, 2023
I used to genderbend back then, but not anymore. It's pointless seeing that the majority of the forum knew I am a female.

However...I only do so when I go for a manly theme, like a NASCAR theme.

droomph

weeb

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I don't know. You seem to type like a normal person. Gender ambiguous. Usually when I think of how a female types, it's with lots of smileys and overzealous use of exclamation points and question marks.

Trying to determine a person's gender from the way they type is difficult in general.
so you're saying ozzy is a female.
did u no there r 21 letters in the alphabet
o i forgot 5
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Ice Car

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so you're saying ozzy is a female.
Wut? Posting style just makes it easier to assume someone's gender. It doesn't mean you're female if you type like a female, and "typing like a female" is subjective in the first place.

Livewire

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You mean talk about something that already has its own thread for that specific topic in a different thread?

http://www.pokecommunity.com/showthread.php?t=286344

Can we continue the discussion there, I mean, there IS a thread for it. Why does the topic have to drag on into a different thread?
8D How about we do whatever I so choose - funny thing is, you're in my section. My rules.

And you changed the topic when you shouldn't have anyways.

Ice Car

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8D How about we do whatever I so choose - funny thing is, you're in my section. My rules.

And you changed the topic when you shouldn't have anyways.
I guess I did, but there's already another topic for politics. Do all other threads that have no definite topic have to "derail" into politics...?

It was a question for a few people that may have noticed my post. It ended up being at the top of the page and everyone kept replying to me.

Hikamaru

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Posted September 4th, 2018
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I used to genderbend back then, but not anymore. It's pointless seeing that the majority of the forum knew I am a female.

However...I only do so when I go for a manly theme, like a NASCAR theme.
That happens to me too Megan, I may have been using a lot of male themes lately yet everyone knows I am female.

I guess it's cos I have a girly username, "Hikari" does sound like a girl's name.
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Her

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I don't think I've changed my gender on this website for over four years - jesus, that's too long. I don't even try to generbend anymore, considering I talk about all my crappy male stuff literally all the time, but there's always a couple of people who feel the need to exclaim "Harley! You're...you're a boy! But your info tab... it say female? Female? Internet? Boy?" or something along those lines. I just don't bother to go out of my way to point out the fact I'm a guy anymore, lol.

Nihilego

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Posted March 16th, 2018
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I don't think I've changed my gender on this website for over four years - jesus, that's too long. I don't even try to generbend anymore, considering I talk about all my crappy male stuff literally all the time, but there's always a couple of people who feel the need to exclaim "Harley! You're...you're a boy! But your info tab... it say female? Female? Internet? Boy?" or something along those lines. I just don't bother to go out of my way to point out the fact I'm a guy anymore, lol.
Ahaha, I misread that as "I don't think I've changed my gender in over four years" and I was like WHAAAAA. I don't even remember what I have mine set to right now... either male or hidden, not sure. I really need to go sort my bio out or something like that since it's really boring right now lol.

...but then I have some work to be doing. ):
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Sylphiel

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Posted January 9th, 2023
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I never got into the whole "genderbending" thing myself.

...Although I used to take great amusement in making people guess my gender. :P I think that was mostly after people would call me by the opposite pronoun even while I had my actual gender listed, so I just said "screw it" and took it off and made people assume. I don't care what people refer to me as anyway, and it was hilarious to see the shock at times.

(And while not on this forum, nothing will ever beat the guy who continually mistook my gender for a while after hearing me over a voice program, though. My voice isn't even manly!)

Nihilego

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(And while not on this forum, nothing will ever beat the guy who continually mistook my gender for a while after hearing me over a voice program, though. My voice isn't even manly!)
Something kinda like this happened to me once! I was in a Skype call with someone and they were like "oh wow I never knew you were so young!" and I was like "...how old do you think I am" and they were all "about 13?". I was 17 at the time like seriously. ):
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Kiel

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Posted September 29th, 2021
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Not into the whole gender-bending thing. I'm more into the whole..*mutter mutter uber secret mutter* thing.