Men in Drag

No, because that isn't true.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/gullible



LOL!

I had similar experiences. It seems there is always tension when you walk around male even if you're not looking for sex or relationships. Hetero males seldom interact with you because you are not as interesting as females. Females may avoid you because they think you may be after only one thing. Or at least I imagined it thus.

I found the non-human avatars did wonders for this -- even more so than the female alt I experimented with for a while.

I am now very content and settled on being a canine most of the time and only occasionally a human male, which has worked out very well.

As far as the "shaft of lightening" type phrases, I can only laugh and compare them with the kind of language you get at the other end of the spectrum. Ever tried to read one of those hysterical romances?

"She tried to resist, but the soldiers were too big and strong for her. Big -- and strong . . ."

"Even in the moonlight she knew he was a real man . . ."


Puh-lease!

I tried using a non-human avatar as well. It wasn't for long because I didn't feel fully comfortable with that. It seemed so alien to me that I didn't quite no what to say or how to react. I know, I was reading much more into it than was necessary, but I fall into that trap sometimes. Maybe I'll try a furry avatar again at some point, but for now I'm enjoying my second life as a woman.

Krull.

A while back i coined the term "Cybervestite".

I think it works better when speaking of SL and cross dressers.

Meh. Too many terms to keep sorted.

I'm just a guy in RL and a woman in SL. No need to complicate matters with labels. LOL

I'll chime in again for Argent's term "transmesh-ite". Then there's William Gibson's "genderbait" for a male representing as female online to elicit a more positive response. I've also heard "gender tourist" and "crossplayer" (derived from cosplayer).

On older chat systems and message boards "transpostite" seemed to be common.

Men put together fem avatars because they are sick of having to deal with jaded, dried-up hormonally driven mad old bats who come out with statements like that. The degree of unchallenged unthinking, venally motivated anti-male sentiment in SL and the wider world these days is frankly sickening: fortunately, it comes handily packaged with it's own reward, since you have immediately identified yourself as a basket case and definitely, finally, completely and utterly unworthy of the skills in pleasure, and politeness in conversation, which you are so loudly claiming I and the rest of my gender just can't get right.

In other words; I would find it a considerable delight to be as sexist, demeaning, jock-ish and goofy as possible around someone like you, morning noon and night. You clearly deserve it.

/me tosses Scylla that lovely Prada flack vest..with a matching helmet. You will need this more than me.

I love that stuff. It's what happens when people have been pushed to the extreme boundary of their powers of description: it's WAY better than just going 'mmmmmmmm' (or the sophisticate's version - 'mmmmmhmmmmm'). I expect that particular shaft-of-lightning thing was someone for whom English isn't a first language - but look at it like this, they are hellishly motivated, otherwise they wouldn't do it...!

(my favourite is an old British story about a newsreader, who Did The Nasty is a studio she thought was shut down, when it wasn't. Her climactic outburst was 'F**k me till I fart' - which may have seemed the pinnacle of hawtness to her, at the time, but to the guy on the giving end of the first verb, and then the receiving end of the second, maybe it wasn't such a fantastic deal...!)

cool rant gummi

Before she edited her post, it read as follows:

Originally Posted by Scylla Rhiadra
ETA: Sorry, did I say that "me are mostly morons"? Slip of the tongue. When I get a chance, I'll come back and edit this post to fix that. Honest . . .

I think it should have been left as is.

Yeah. Sh*t.

Wouldn't you people prefer to go back to beating up on Jig?

Well, Gummi, as I am pretty sure I actually say somewhere in this thread, there was a lot of tongue planted pretty firmly in cheek when I wrote that. I was responding to what I thought was the tone that Jig herself was taking. As I think I ALSO say somewhere, I probably should have indicated that more clearly.

For what it is worth, I actually don't like simplistic and glib "anti-male" sentiment (when it is intended seriously) anymore than I like the usual run of misogynist crap that I run across a lot in both SL and RL.

I DO disparage and critique, quite happily and fluently when asked, the real sexism that still permeates our culture. Most of that (but by no means all) comes from men. SOME men.

As for the prevalence of "anti-male" sentiment, relative to misogynist garbage, I'll lay money the latter is a hell of a lot more pronounced in both RL and SL than the former.

QFT

I would like to remind everyone that their hormones make them do funny stuff. Ask my hand

Do I have to? I'd really rather not . . .

Maybe you can just summarize for me?

Hold on, I gotta paint the lips on.

Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww . . .

LMAO... Sawwry ;D