Posing as the opposite sex- TRY IT

Holy cow has anyone done this on an online forum before? I had a teacher in college who encouraged people to experiment with it at least once and observe how differently you are treated. She was big into social norms & mores and the effects of breaking them.

So I tried this experiment on IGN, which is essentially populated with 15-year old males, and it's so amusing to see how differently they act. Before I specified my sex and put up a phony profile picture I was assumed - naturally - to be a guy, but these kids' posting habits changed dramatically when they imagined me to be female.

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[You have] a killer rack.

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I'm a big perv, what can I say.

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C'mon... have we reverted to our pre-pubescent mentalities here? There are other attractive parts about her, not just her breasts...

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If my mentality was prepubescent, I don't think I'd care about her breasts

Anyway, anybody here ever tried it for kicks? Any observations or insights to share about the nature of online posting as a certain sex in general? I wouldn't be surprised if someone here is doing it. I don't imagine this thread will be too popular, but I thought I'd see if anyone else has done this.

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I suppose I can ask this question of those females who do post at this forum: do you ever feel as though you are treated a bit different solely because others know you are a female?

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Encephalon

this member was coming back to report that he had been the one posing as a young girl as research for a sociology/gender study class he was taking in college at the time.

Man that is awesome. I would've liked to read his paper or whatever he had had to compile as a final project.

Yeah I do suppose it is deceitful in some fashion... once I walked through a Wal-mart pretending to be blind while my girlfriend led me around. It was nothing but a social experiment, but afterwards both of us felt guilty. Very odd.

There's nowhere I can't reach.