There has been a lot of talk about differences in how we portray our selves with our avatars this week: race, color sex. I am not sure if race covers thing like furries, elves and aliens.
This got me to thinking about avatars available. In the past few days I have done quite a bit of looking around. I have noticed some variety including some very different or alien skin colors. I have also noticed these avatars always seem to come in male and female. Are there any good androgynous avatars out there? What have you seen where sex is not readily apparent?
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Whimsycallie Pegler
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05-10-2006 13:29
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Aodhan McDunnough
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05-10-2006 13:32
A silver ball with what I think is a single narrow gunbarrel poking out.
A mechanical spider. Actually we can make our avatar look like anything. These are not androgynous ... more like, sexless. LOL |
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FlipperPA Peregrine
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05-10-2006 13:32
My avatar is supposed to be male. Think cute indie-goth type boi, however. A lot of people think my avatar is female. Its kind of fun having obvious minors hitting on me and then saying, "BTW, I'm male. Are you gay?" Then ensuing freak out is always wonderful to observe!
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Wildefire Walcott
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05-10-2006 13:34
A silver ball with what I think is a single narrow gunbarrel poking out. Well, that would be a male, hun. _____________________
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Jenny Marshall
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05-10-2006 13:37
Its kind of fun having obvious minors hitting on me and then saying, "BTW, I'm male. Are you gay?" Then ensuing freak out is always wonderful to observe! Regards, -Flip LOL that is hilarious _____________________
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Arken Soothsayer
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05-10-2006 13:37
Um, I'd say a good % of the human male population is androgynous;p
But that aside, most furries never seem very masculine, and barely femenine. Just the screaming Disney look about them, I guess. Anyway, there's a whole host of robots, free-floating orbs, and as always, you could make whatever you want. Like a few weird alien people I see here and there. _____________________
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Whimsycallie Pegler
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05-10-2006 13:39
A silver ball with what I think is a single narrow gunbarrel poking out. A mechanical spider. Actually we can make our avatar look like anything. These are not androgynous ... more like, sexless. LOL I know we can be anything we want. I just wondered if there were any adrogynous forms out there. LOL.. at Wildefire's male comment. |
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Khamon Fate
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05-10-2006 13:43
Are there any good androgynous avatars out there? What have you seen where sex is not readily apparent? _____________________
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Arken Soothsayer
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05-10-2006 13:43
U mean a shape than? If so I'm not sure, but it shouldn't be hard to make one.
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Whimsycallie Pegler
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05-10-2006 13:45
I am not sure I really want one... but I might sometime.
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Marcus Moreau
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05-10-2006 14:01
But that aside, most furries never seem very masculine, and barely femenine. Just the screaming Disney look about them, I guess. <generalization> Turn on "view transparent" and look at furries. You'll notice some gender at that point. </generalization> MM _____________________
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Barnesworth Anubis
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05-10-2006 14:06
My av seems clearly male to me yet people generally refer to me as she and her. I will admit for awhile I didnt know what you were Khamon. You need to crank up the package slider. _____________________
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Salazar Jack
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05-10-2006 14:32
I will admit for awhile I didnt know what you were Khamon. You need to crank up the package slider. Time for the little green sprout to be the jolly green giant. (Did I just type that out loud?) |
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Barnesworth Anubis
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05-10-2006 14:37
Time for the little green sprout to be the jolly green giant. (Did I just type that out loud?) ahahahaaaaaa _____________________
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Sparky Widget
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05-10-2006 14:53
<generalization> Turn on "view transparent" and look at furries. You'll notice some gender at that point. </generalization> MM For various reasons, this idea disturbs me... |
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Charmande Petion
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05-10-2006 15:31
I use the female body shape, but I'm definitely supposed to be male, it's just the the male body shape is ugly and a pain to work with. =|
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Talon Lardner
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05-10-2006 16:09
<generalization> Turn on "view transparent" and look at furries. You'll notice some gender at that point. </generalization> MM I did it once... I definatly knew who was male then! But to be fair, I also found a lot of suprises on Male Human avitars, and I swear, "Alt shows Physical" shows a lot of suprises for Female Human avis as well... We all got our needs, I suppose. |
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Aliasi Stonebender
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05-10-2006 16:34
Um, I'd say a good % of the human male population is androgynous;p But that aside, most furries never seem very masculine, and barely femenine. Just the screaming Disney look about them, I guess. Depends on the furry av, too. Luskwood and Lost Creatures, for example, specialize in the more "cartoony" look, whereas others (Jakkal Dingo's Werehouse comes to mind) try to go for something more "realistic". I enjoy both approaches. (In any case... I seem to get more creepy guys hitting on me when I'm in my half-dragon look than when I'm human!) _____________________
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jrrdraco Oe
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05-10-2006 16:56
<generalization> Turn on "view transparent" and look at furries. You'll notice some gender at that point. </generalization> MM aww you just took all the fun out of it  |
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FlipperPA Peregrine
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05-11-2006 06:09
I will admit for awhile I didnt know what you were Khamon. You need to crank up the package slider. JUNK SLIDER! Bring back pandastrong! _____________________
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Feynt Mistral
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05-12-2006 02:21
<generalization> Turn on "view transparent" and look at furries. You'll notice some gender at that point. </generalization> MM Don't have to do that around me, unless I'm teaching. I'm clearly male and I'm not shy about showing it. I get lots of complements about my appearance too so I can't be that hard on the eyes, even if you are pro PG. Not that I won't don some pants if asked. _____________________
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Ordinal Malaprop
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05-12-2006 02:36
I certainly regularly get mistaken for a boy. I don't really make it easy to tell from a distance when I'm wearing my trademark red jacket and black trousers but honestly... have you ever tried manually recalibrating a counterclockwork engine or scrubbing the soot out of a cannon barrel whilst wearing a dress? Not practical.
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Burnman Bedlam
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05-12-2006 06:19
I use the female body shape, but I'm definitely supposed to be male, it's just the the male body shape is ugly and a pain to work with. =| uhm... Well you see.... uh... erm.... I guess that... well... ahh... Ok then  _____________________
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Chance Abattoir
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05-12-2006 06:48
What have you seen where sex is not readily apparent? Working on some. Still finishing up a few scripts. Will release soon on threat of bankruptcy for all the land I own but had to stop developing in order to get these avatars out of my head. _____________________
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Parker McTeague
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05-12-2006 07:11
"BTW, I'm male. Are you gay?" Then ensuing freak out is always wonderful to observe! it's always fun to turn people's prejudices against them  |
