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Why do Men choose Female Avatars?

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Cyprus Amaro
Tortuga Coalition 102
#261 - 2012-06-07 20:27:38 UTC
Spy 21 wrote:
To me it seems freakishly weird for a male to run around in a virtual universe with the identity of a hot looking woman...

Maybe it's just my upbringing in an older and now outdated world but it just seems to me like playing dress up on a Saturday night and trolling the seamier parts of town.


It is pretty obvious that many of these avatars simply represent a juvenile male fantasy of what their ideal sex toy would be. You would think that these kids would outgrow that mindset as they mature, but remember this is the EVE population where far too many of them are basement dwellers hiding their computer porn from their Mom.

(Full disclosure: One of my toons is a female character. She is actually modeled after my adult daughter both in name and appearance.)
Onyx Nyx
The Veldspar Protectorate
#262 - 2012-06-07 20:32:38 UTC
Cyprus Amaro wrote:
Spy 21 wrote:
To me it seems freakishly weird for a male to run around in a virtual universe with the identity of a hot looking woman...

Maybe it's just my upbringing in an older and now outdated world but it just seems to me like playing dress up on a Saturday night and trolling the seamier parts of town.


It is pretty obvious that many of these avatars simply represent a juvenile male fantasy of what their ideal sex toy would be. You would think that these kids would outgrow that mindset as they mature, but remember this is the EVE population where far too many of them are basement dwellers hiding their computer **** from their Mom.

(Full disclosure: One of my toons is a female character. She is actually modeled after my adult daughter both in name and appearance.)


So your male toon is what your ideal sex toy would be?

And modelling a character after your daughter is just disturbing.

I kill kittens, and puppies and bunnies. I maim toddlers and teens and then more.

  • Richard (http://www.lfgcomic.com/)
Cyprus Amaro
Tortuga Coalition 102
#263 - 2012-06-07 20:35:32 UTC
Onyx Nyx wrote:
Cyprus Amaro wrote:
Spy 21 wrote:
To me it seems freakishly weird for a male to run around in a virtual universe with the identity of a hot looking woman...

Maybe it's just my upbringing in an older and now outdated world but it just seems to me like playing dress up on a Saturday night and trolling the seamier parts of town.


It is pretty obvious that many of these avatars simply represent a juvenile male fantasy of what their ideal sex toy would be. You would think that these kids would outgrow that mindset as they mature, but remember this is the EVE population where far too many of them are basement dwellers hiding their computer **** from their Mom.

(Full disclosure: One of my toons is a female character. She is actually modeled after my adult daughter both in name and appearance.)


So your male toon is what your ideal sex toy would be?

And modelling a character after your daughter is just disturbing.


Actually this toon I bought and never changed the appearance.

My Main is modeled after me, an "Old Guy".

Finally, I think you have some reading issues. Try reading my post a few more times and eventually you may understand.
Onyx Nyx
The Veldspar Protectorate
#264 - 2012-06-07 20:38:53 UTC
Cyprus Amaro wrote:
Onyx Nyx wrote:
Cyprus Amaro wrote:
Spy 21 wrote:
To me it seems freakishly weird for a male to run around in a virtual universe with the identity of a hot looking woman...

Maybe it's just my upbringing in an older and now outdated world but it just seems to me like playing dress up on a Saturday night and trolling the seamier parts of town.


It is pretty obvious that many of these avatars simply represent a juvenile male fantasy of what their ideal sex toy would be. You would think that these kids would outgrow that mindset as they mature, but remember this is the EVE population where far too many of them are basement dwellers hiding their computer **** from their Mom.

(Full disclosure: One of my toons is a female character. She is actually modeled after my adult daughter both in name and appearance.)


So your male toon is what your ideal sex toy would be?

And modelling a character after your daughter is just disturbing.


Actually this toon I bought and never changed the appearance.

My Main is modeled after me, an "Old Guy".

Finally, I think you have some reading issues. Try reading my post a few more times and eventually you may understand.



I did. It is you who should stop giving me such delicious phrasing.

"It is pretty obvious that many of these avatars simply represent a juvenile male fantasy of what their ideal sex toy would be."

That really says it all, like modelling a alt after your RL daughter.

I kill kittens, and puppies and bunnies. I maim toddlers and teens and then more.

  • Richard (http://www.lfgcomic.com/)
Zora'e
#265 - 2012-06-07 21:08:38 UTC
Onyx Nyx wrote:
Cyprus Amaro wrote:
Onyx Nyx wrote:
Cyprus Amaro wrote:
Spy 21 wrote:
To me it seems freakishly weird for a male to run around in a virtual universe with the identity of a hot looking woman...

Maybe it's just my upbringing in an older and now outdated world but it just seems to me like playing dress up on a Saturday night and trolling the seamier parts of town.


It is pretty obvious that many of these avatars simply represent a juvenile male fantasy of what their ideal sex toy would be. You would think that these kids would outgrow that mindset as they mature, but remember this is the EVE population where far too many of them are basement dwellers hiding their computer **** from their Mom.

(Full disclosure: One of my toons is a female character. She is actually modeled after my adult daughter both in name and appearance.)


So your male toon is what your ideal sex toy would be?

And modelling a character after your daughter is just disturbing.


Actually this toon I bought and never changed the appearance.

My Main is modeled after me, an "Old Guy".

Finally, I think you have some reading issues. Try reading my post a few more times and eventually you may understand.



I did. It is you who should stop giving me such delicious phrasing.

"It is pretty obvious that many of these avatars simply represent a juvenile male fantasy of what their ideal sex toy would be."

That really says it all, like modelling a alt after your RL daughter.


Ouch, that hadda hurt.

I won't say you are stupid, but you're not exactly on the Zombie menu either.
Lumi Leena
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#266 - 2012-06-07 21:54:14 UTC
Superficial answer: Because females have longer hair. Long hair is awesome.
Svarek
#267 - 2012-06-07 22:03:59 UTC
Lumi Leena wrote:
Superficial answer: Because females have longer hair. Long hair is awesome.


Truth.
I am waiting edgily for CCP to include longer hair on guys, because it is awesome and the fact that you can't give a guy long hair (other than dreads, or Amarrians - and how do Amarrians being the only long-haired males make sense at all?) annoys me fairly greatly.

Whoops.
Serptimis
Ministry of War
Amarr Empire
#268 - 2012-06-07 22:12:20 UTC
Because females have up to 90% resistance to ECM ?
Maru Shana
Imperial Shipment
Amarr Empire
#269 - 2012-06-07 22:26:42 UTC
"Have I defied the gods by achieving immortality? Or have I become a god? Is it sinful to never know the permanence of death or is it a right of passage toward divinity? Once the mind is as immortal as the soul, does the shape of the flesh matter? When the limit of lifetimes exceeds the infinite why must one confine themselves to one particular mortal vessel?

I know not the temperance of death. Why should I care for the restriction of form?"



This is pretty much what she would say if she weren't simply yet another mask I wear. ^_^

By the way, in my Psychology 101 class we were asked if we would choose to live as a member of the opposite sex. Half chose yes; half chose no. Most saying that they wouldn't mind as long as they could live out their first life beforehand. And our instructor was surprised by how many more had chosen "yes" compared to the year before. The trend seems to be toward complete acceptance rather than forcing everyone to fit into their preassigned ideological roles.
Calvin Chesterfield
Royal Navy Fleet Logistics
#270 - 2012-06-07 22:36:40 UTC
I don't think it matters one bit if people use "actual real gender" for their characters or if they mix it up. I guess if you are trying to use eve as a space version of match.com then it might cause you some frustration but as it is I just do two things.

1. I assume all players are males until convinced otherwise.
2. I refer to them by the gender of their toon until convinced otherwise.

Both these handy items will keep you from despair, confusion, and heartache.
Stalafur
State War Academy
Caldari State
#271 - 2012-06-08 06:01:17 UTC
'Why do men choose female avatars'

The Milkshake song. Cool
Adaam Ikalaa
Doomheim
#272 - 2012-06-10 18:19:52 UTC  |  Edited by: Adaam Ikalaa
I have an alt that is a female. I don't see the big problem some people have. In other MMORPG's more so than EVE. I mean, yeah, I'm not a girl. I'm also not a wizard, a knight, an elf, a pilot of a starship, etc. I also am not tall, musclebound, tattooed, or have piercings. So? Games are entertainment. More or less, movies/films/stories that you write and direct with your imagination. As long as you don't present yourself to really be the opposite sex when you're not, I don't see the problem.

People who have an issue with players using a female or male as their avatar when they are the opposite IRL, have the issues if anyone, to be honest.

If you waste today, you've wasted one of the last days of your life.
Ila Dace
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#273 - 2012-06-10 20:56:08 UTC
Hmmm.... No idea.

If House played Eve: http://i.imgur.com/y7ShT.jpg

But in purple, I'm stunning!
Kiteo Hatto
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#274 - 2012-06-10 21:01:12 UTC  |  Edited by: Kiteo Hatto
I've filled the other 2 slots with females just because I want to make my main feel like a pimp. Its a love triangle thing, its complicated Cool
Yuriko Deathstrike
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#275 - 2012-06-10 21:09:32 UTC  |  Edited by: Yuriko Deathstrike
Cyprus Amaro wrote:
[quote=Spy 21]
It is pretty obvious that many of these avatars simply represent a juvenile male fantasy of what their ideal sex toy would be.


**reads the above, looks at Cyprus' avatar picture, reads the above again**

/squinty eyes


EDIT: but seriously though, video games is one of the few places where i can act immature. I'm not gonna sit here, play a game and act all serious and mature...i do enough of that at my job (act serious and mature that is...not playing games).
Grog Barrel
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#276 - 2012-06-10 21:18:35 UTC
OP, allow me to drop a counter-question:

Do you directly identify yourself with your (in-any-game) avatar/character or do you discern them just as a third-person actor/actress?

It's all a matter of perspective.
Grog Barrel
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#277 - 2012-06-10 21:24:38 UTC
Onyx Nyx wrote:
Cyprus Amaro wrote:
Onyx Nyx wrote:
Cyprus Amaro wrote:
Spy 21 wrote:
To me it seems freakishly weird for a male to run around in a virtual universe with the identity of a hot looking woman...

Maybe it's just my upbringing in an older and now outdated world but it just seems to me like playing dress up on a Saturday night and trolling the seamier parts of town.


It is pretty obvious that many of these avatars simply represent a juvenile male fantasy of what their ideal sex toy would be. You would think that these kids would outgrow that mindset as they mature, but remember this is the EVE population where far too many of them are basement dwellers hiding their computer **** from their Mom.

(Full disclosure: One of my toons is a female character. She is actually modeled after my adult daughter both in name and appearance.)


So your male toon is what your ideal sex toy would be?

And modelling a character after your daughter is just disturbing.


Actually this toon I bought and never changed the appearance.

My Main is modeled after me, an "Old Guy".

Finally, I think you have some reading issues. Try reading my post a few more times and eventually you may understand.



I did. It is you who should stop giving me such delicious phrasing.

"It is pretty obvious that many of these avatars simply represent a juvenile male fantasy of what their ideal sex toy would be."

That really says it all, like modelling a alt after your RL daughter.


incestwaaaaaht?
Tarryn Nightstorm
Hellstar Towing and Recovery
#278 - 2012-06-10 21:43:52 UTC
Don't forget that a lot of the old male avatars simply looked wrong. And not in a cool, edgy/evil way, either.

(Thank God Minmatar/Siebestor and Caldari/Achura finally look as badass as they always should have! More long-hair options for the former naow, pls, CCP, kthxbai.).

Star Wars: the Old Republic may not be EVE. But I'll take the sound of dual blaster-pistols over "NURVV CLAOKING NAOW!!!11oneone!!" any day of the week.
Noriko Satomi
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#279 - 2012-06-10 22:46:31 UTC
When the new avatars first came out, male avatars could either be metro douchebags, goombahs, or a bizarre mixture of Telly Savalas and that Balok prop from The Corbomite Maneuver. Things have improved.
Myrdraeus Keaunt
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#280 - 2012-06-10 23:28:42 UTC
Spineker wrote:
I never buy into the "eye candy" thing. It is some other reason surely, because none of these avatars are physically attractive unless you are messed up in the head or something.


I'd do me.