[adrift]

Completely random thought here while perusing the forum but does anyone else get confused about the gender of a poster who uses a female avatar? The girls in these avatars are either smoking hot or Japanese comic characters. I'm assuming there's probably a couple smoking hot female members of this forum, but it seems unlikely that all of them are. And I, by default, figure that anyone who's got a manga/anime character in their avatar is probably (but not necessarily) a teen to twenty-something male.

Its sometimes confusing cause when I read a post from someone who has a person in their avatar I tend to imagine the voice... it gets a bit weird when I read someone with a female avatar post something out of... character... I guess. lol. Maybe I'm the only one that feels that way though.

 

[Armaegis]

And then there are the females with male avatars...

 

[timmyGCSE]

what about ones with cat avatars? I recently had a gender fail with boomana

 

[apatN]

No...

 

[logwed]

No, I don't. Generally the female avatars are ones with headphones covering their boobs, or an angel drinking whiskey, and I don't know that a female would feel the need to appear like that. Also, to clarify, I am not a cat stuck in a sleeve, and I'm pretty sure that my friend who has posted above me is not Mr. T.

 

[Emooze]

My picture is of myself because I had a brief stint of narcissism and made it.

Rest assured, I am male

 

[TopPop]

Well, unlike all of you, I actually am an elderly gentleman who enjoys both headphones and celebration of the new year.

 

[adrift]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Armaegis /img/forum/go_quote.gif And then there are the females with male avatars...

I didn't think there were any females on the internetz

 

[LingLing1337]

Please don't tell me that krmathis isn't a wizard duck?

 

[adrift]

Quote:

Originally Posted by logwed /img/forum/go_quote.gif No, I don't. Generally the female avatars are ones with headphones covering their boobs, or an angel drinking whiskey, and I don't know that a female would feel the need to appear like that. Also, to clarify, I am not a cat stuck in a sleeve, and I'm pretty sure that my friend who has posted above me is not Mr. T.

The angel drinking whiskey one I'm familiar with. I could see a girl using that one.

I thought your cat was rolled up in a carpet. I love Dune by the way (the Lynch film and not the books... true story).

Guys using female avatars doesn't trip me up as much as my male coworker who likes to play as females in multiplayer online games...

 

[adrift]

Quote:

Originally Posted by LingLing1337 /img/forum/go_quote.gif Please don't tell me that krmathis isn't a wizard duck?

Everytime I see his avatar I think old hippy. I can dig it.

 

[adrift]

Quote:

Originally Posted by TopPop /img/forum/go_quote.gif Well, unlike all of you, I actually am an elderly gentleman who enjoys both headphones and celebration of the new year.

I actually wondered about that for some time. I think I confirmed you were much younger in that one age/job thread that was going a couple months ago.

 

[adrift]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Emooze /img/forum/go_quote.gif My picture is of myself because I had a brief stint of narcissism and made it. Rest assured, I am male

I prefer people using avatars of themselves. Again, helps makes sense of that internal narration as I'm reading posts.

 

[Uncle Erik]

I look exactly like my avatar.

 

[Covenant]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Uncle Erik /img/forum/go_quote.gif I look exactly like my avatar.

And I'm really a cartoon wizard.