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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Wait, there's women on the internet?!

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)
[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I opened this post knowing 100% that I'd find this comment.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago

The internet

Where men are men

Where women are men

Where kids are FBI

—1990s USEnet era adage

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Yes, but weirdly, none of us play MMOs.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

You're not missing much

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I know a few who play as male characters to avoid attention.

[–] atomicorange 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I would play as male characters and then dye their armor pink and flirt relentlessly with the boys. It was fun, especially when you’d get on teamspeak with them after playing together for weeks and they’d be like “wait you’re a girl?”

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Oh, I know. I've met a lot of women who do, it was more tongue-in-cheek at the old "Many Men Online Roleplaying Girls".

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I know at least two who are in my coven / crew who play MMOs.

I don't like MMOs myself, but I'm way neurodivergent and do a lot of single-player and small-group co-op.

I think I steered away from pub games around the rise of gamergate and the alt-right. Folks got scary.