Gender stereotypes in SL: "Real" women

You're right I suppose. thanks.

In my experience, SL has a greater number of IT/technologically proficient people than the general population so this is utter bullshit not just as a cultural assumption but as a statistical one.

And a large part of creative community is female in fashion, art, et al.

The rest are assumptions that are utterly idiotic and often quite false.

My thoughts.

Well, my rl wife uses buddy. Don't know if she would had her youngest kid not been a boy. When referring to her friends she also uses both ladies and guys as generic terms. Last time I checked she was definitely female.

PS it seems those who want to pigeon-hole people by gender stereotypes forget that there are also transgender and mixed gender people as well.

Benski,

I've used the 'Ignore' function for the very first time, ever, because of this thread. And you keep nerfing it by quoting the person .

Don't get upset. Just use click on the poster's name on the left, drill in a bit, and find the 'Ignore' option... life is just too short to have to deal with some things.

Be well .

Do I really need to point out that your all here to debate issues, not to attack each other, or belittle people's spelling, or grammer.

Debate the ideas, not the other posters please, or this thread will go the way of others.

Don't get insulted by such childish behavior. I bet those people who criticize your English would not be able to write the same post in Dutch, let alone in flawless Dutch.

I am afraid that if you get annoyed with people pointing out deficiencies in your posts then the forums are not the place for you.

Did you feel insulted when your teachers pointed out errors? You are using this forum to learn, so you should be pleased that someone points out how to spell dyslexic correctly - although I am sure a spell checker would have identified that it was incorrect.

As Mickey has pointed out, don't feel special. I point out the errors of lots of people. Because I have, many posters now take more time and care about their posts, I am delighted to say. It saves everyone else time if you have taken more care so we don't have to translate posts before answering.

Pep ("Constantly"?)

Well, the funny thing, of course, is that every single person replying with "Well, I do this or that and I am a woman" could be lying.

I think the stereotypes are bunk, of course. I'm also not particularly pre-occupied about people's gender. There are some friends in SL who have told me enough about their lives that if they are not the same gender as their avatars means a lot of what we have talked about is lies, and I confess THAT would make me feel kind of crappy. But other than that, it's not something I look for in others. I don't spend much time thinking or wondering whether the person behind the av is the same gender as the av. Once in a very rare while someone will do or say something that gives me pause, but it's never been someone I was close with.

And for what it's worth, I would never do voice or cam for any reason and certainly not to prove my gender. I'm not interested in the first place, and do respond to ultimatums, in the second. I presume a lot of women would refuse to for safety reasons, but maybe I'm just paranoid.

These are English forums, Moaner.

Pep (I have French as a good second language, but I would not dream of inflicting it upon a French language forum)

Most people won't do as 'we' would do, so trying to apply one's personal standards to the world is an exercise in frustration.

Your abs must be like steel, Pep!

/me slams his heels to attention at the behest of the Phorum Pleece.

Pep (Why is it that it is the worst offenders who claim that spelling and grammar are not important in presenting cogent arguments and views? Funny that . . . )

They are!

Pep (Covered over nowadays with quite a thick layer of insulation though. )

Real Women concern themselves with:

love
marriage
husband
children
family in the larger sense
and community, pretty much in that order.

Some of them hold jobs, some do not, depending on circumstances.

In SL, they know who they are and generally do not need or want pixel sex with others than their RL mates or Significant Others.

All the rest is neurotic nonsense from people with head problems. Some of them very complicated head problems.

That is all.

EDIT: Real Men consider themselves very fortunate to find one such and marry her, and they are right. I am one of those lucky persons, so I know whereof I speak.

No, these are international forums.

As long as the TOS don't state that you need to be of English mother tongue and/or have perfect knowledge of the language to use them it is perfectly fine to post here even if you make mistakes. You can just mute anyone you don't want to read. Problem solved!



This is very unfortunate because the only way to learn a language and improve your skills is by using it.

my god it's like spam in here with the spell checking..
just reading it was like watching a tailgater spellchecker movie or one of those songs that get stuck in your brain you can't get rid of..i had to hit the iggy..i don't know how anyone can stand it lol

Har - so if a woman isn't particularly into romance, marriage, or raising children she isn't a real woman?

Dang.

Oh whoops...worse...she's neurotic and has 'head problems'? Yikes.

I hope you were kidding.

The International Forums are here actually. It says so on the heading.

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Of course anyone can post in as fractured English as they like here. Just don't be surprised if your views, opinions and arguments are not taken as seriously as if you took more care in presenting them.


And by having errors pointed out so you can know when you have made mistakes.

Pep (The same applies when EFLers present posts in a flawed fashion, so don't feel singled out.)

First of all, sorry that I got overheated with this person, I hit Ignore too.

Secondly, back on topic: gender stereotyping. What about male stereotypes?

I mean, I do believe stereotyping is mostly noncense, and have nothing more than pure entertainment value to me, but what are the most idiotic male stereotypes you know?

^ I'd like to know what the guys think are unfair stereotypes of them (RL and SL/online) too. I wouldn't know or hazard a guess, I'm not a guy! And I don't ask my brother these things. ^

I don't think the two sets of characteristics are exclusive, from experience.

Pep (Do real women make quiche?)

Yup because the smart ones have RL lovers *G*

That we are fat lazy slobs who only rise from their chairs watching sport on TV to get another beer.

Pep (It is SOOOO untrue - if we are married we make the wife get the beer for us. )

Most people seem to be a whole stew pot of traits and qualities.

Quiche? Not me...Mine's cooked for me and delivered with brunch, on a tray, each Sunday. Lol.

(He gets his own beer too. Lol)

He's obviously not a real man then.

Pep (Probably drives a Prius too)