Have you ever pretended to be a person of the opposite sex on the Internet?

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Now I'm confused.

― Julie (or perhaps Julian), Friday, 15 August 2003 08:52 (twenty-three years ago)

I used to use an ambiguous name as a pseudonym (not for anything remoptely dodgy, mind) and found that most people assumed I was female. I didn't necessarily tell them otherwise, though mostly I did. I'm honest, essentially, and see no point in continuing a pretence for no reason.

― Mark C (Mark C), Friday, 15 August 2003 08:59 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm not sure there is an opposite sex to me.

― Pete (Pete), Friday, 15 August 2003 09:43 (twenty-three years ago)

Pete stop being emo.

― Tom (Groke), Friday, 15 August 2003 09:49 (twenty-three years ago)

kind of. I was in the NME chatroom once and, as always, some sad fucker came in asking "any hot grlz want cyber?" and, because I was bored, I said "go on then". so every lewd private message I got sent, I forwarded to all my mates in the chatroom before eventually telling him that I was a bloke and that he'd been cybering with a big gaymo. this provoked a hilarious reaction from him, and a private message asking me if I had a problem with gay people... this private message came from the bloke that I'd be living with a happy five years later.

so think on.

― j0e (j0e), Friday, 15 August 2003 10:02 (twenty-three years ago)

No, never.

― Alexia K, Friday, 15 August 2003 10:06 (twenty-three years ago)

that's a great story j0e!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Friday, 15 August 2003 10:47 (twenty-three years ago)

I feel I have missed something by not knowing what 'living with a happy' means.

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 15 August 2003 11:10 (twenty-three years ago)

Well if you dont know N....

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Friday, 15 August 2003 11:12 (twenty-three years ago)

I haven't, but I remember coming up with the best opposite sex pseudonym for myself -- Katie Apostrophe, P.I. (see, I'd have to be a private investigator for this to work), cause if you say it out loud you're just spelling my name really fast.

If I had a nickel for every idea that would only work if I were a female private investigator, I'd have two nickels, and the other one would be more like "me being all three of Charlie's Angels," and it isn't "an idea" exactly.

― Tep (ktepi), Friday, 15 August 2003 11:22 (twenty-three years ago)

Yes - I am male but whimsically chose the name Linda to disguise my real life identity on a Go server (place where you can play the oriental game of Go with ohter people on-line). This was a terrible mistake: non-stop sexual harrassment and countless private messages from desperate males. I soon changed back to a male nomme de guerre.

― Bob Six (bobbysix), Friday, 15 August 2003 11:49 (twenty-three years ago)

N., have you ever pretended not to be a pedant on the internet?

i think i was once fluffybunny on nmechat for about an hour because it wasn't letting me log on as me, can't remember anything exciting happening apart from having to explain to everyone that it was me...

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Friday, 15 August 2003 11:52 (twenty-three years ago)

mmm, kinky!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Friday, 15 August 2003 11:54 (twenty-three years ago)

Everyone is hating on me today.

I am guessing that joe is gay and that line 'living with a happy' means 'living with happily' but I'm genuinely confused as that seems a weird typo.

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 15 August 2003 11:56 (twenty-three years ago)

N. I think it is the five years that have been happy for Joe.

― Mark C (Mark C), Friday, 15 August 2003 11:58 (twenty-three years ago)

Ahh - thanks!

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 15 August 2003 12:03 (twenty-three years ago)

this private message came from the bloke that I'd be living with [INSERT COMMA HERE] a happy five years later

sorry, N. i didn't mean to hate on you, honest :)

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Friday, 15 August 2003 12:51 (twenty-three years ago)

No, but I have pretended to be sexually active.

― Aimless, Friday, 15 August 2003 16:01 (twenty-three years ago)

When I was in college my friend pretended to be a woman and had a long, extended relationship with a guy online, for like two years. This was in the very early 90's and I think it happened over IRC or telnet or something. The guy sent him tons of CDs and books as well. He began to feel bad about it and eventually told him, then embarked on a long campaign to get the guy to date his mom. I have no idea what happened to that. My friend is now a teacher at a Jesuit school in NYC and married to a nice Catholic girl. Why do I know freaks?

― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Friday, 15 August 2003 16:06 (twenty-three years ago)

um, no. why would i *want* to impersonate a member of the opposite sex?

― Orbit (Orbit), Friday, 15 August 2003 16:07 (twenty-three years ago)

I might. -- Ah, the grand, bubbly utopia of non-gendered cyberpersons (c. 1991), where has it gone? Into chats where people cyberfinger each other to find out, that's where. Hide and seek for the really desparate, no?

― nestmanso (nestmanso), Friday, 15 August 2003 16:10 (twenty-three years ago)

If you need to finger someone to find out, it's already too late.

― Mark C (Mark C), Friday, 15 August 2003 16:15 (twenty-three years ago)

that's just wrong, Mark C

― Horacina WoMann (Horace Mann), Friday, 15 August 2003 16:17 (twenty-three years ago)

Never.

― Janet Reno, Friday, 15 August 2003 16:22 (twenty-three years ago)

Yep, while playing online poker or any other online games. People undestimate you if you're a woman usually, and it makes em feel even worse when they lose to you.

― Christopher (Christopher), Friday, 15 August 2003 17:02 (twenty-three years ago)

no, but i always try to give people the impression i'ma drag queen.

― The Lady Ms Dogshit (lucylurex), Saturday, 16 August 2003 01:55 (twenty-three years ago)

Have you ever pretended to be a person of the opposite sex on the Internet?

No, but I've taken on a pseudonym before. ;) </revelation>

I would think it would be kinda hard to try to be a different GENDER, though. My goodness gracious me, that would be the greatest of acting jobs, even if you're dealing with the relative safety and ease of the Internet. Really.

― Just Deanna (Dee the Lurker), Saturday, 16 August 2003 02:07 (twenty-three years ago)

You'd be surprised how many people pull it off -- especially back before anyone had digital cameras or scanners, and no one was expected to have a photograph.

― Tep (ktepi), Saturday, 16 August 2003 02:08 (twenty-three years ago)

I've pretended to be a woman before, and guys always bought it. In fact, they were often amazed. "You're so cool! You like the Beastie Boys!" I was their perfect fantasy woman. It was fun.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Saturday, 16 August 2003 02:09 (twenty-three years ago)

One of the first people I met in a non-locally-based online place, come to think of it, was a guy who had a specific fetish he couldn't find enough women to cater to, so he posed as a woman catering to said fetish for men who essentially took on "his role" in his fantasies.

Does that sentence make any sense? He pretended to be a chick talking dirty, saying the things he wanted chicks to say to him.

― Tep (ktepi), Saturday, 16 August 2003 02:12 (twenty-three years ago)

I want to know what the fetish was, so I can laugh and point.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Saturday, 16 August 2003 02:13 (twenty-three years ago)

Thigh-high boots.

― Tep (ktepi), Saturday, 16 August 2003 02:15 (twenty-three years ago)

Wow. What a bunch of revelations.

I suppose maybe it's because I'm not that good at crafting stories or trying to be a person I'm not. Even if released by the whole "Do you have a photograph?" constraint, I couldn't really SOUND like a guy.

But wow. You guys. *applause*

[except for the whole fetish thing... *attempts to wrap brain around this one*]

― Maybe Just Deanna (Dee the Lurker), Saturday, 16 August 2003 02:15 (twenty-three years ago)

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