At 9/20/04 01:22 AM, Rabid-Echidna wrote:
experiment
People are scum ... especially pre-teen males habitating random forums. This wasn't something that needed to be proved. Then again writing a doctoral thesis proving that adjacent geographical neighbors are more likely to have an armed conflict than non-geographically adjacent neighbors wasn't necessary either ... but it was accepted. Say Doctor, thank you!
~shrug~ everyone feels the need to prove this point at one time or another, myself included, so I'm not going to get "all in your shit" over it, but you really needed to rethink the reasoning behind why you did it. NG is one of the few places that allows people to be "unspecified" on gender ... and it's a great benefit. As you've proven (oh gee, yet again) declared female users have a bit more latitude in what they are allowed to post with impunity BUT you have not run a full test on it to understand it. Now run the gamut I've done (below) and then get back to us. If you're a normal fucking human, you'll actually get some enjoyment of being able to help people who need/want it ... and this gender bullshit ... that experiments like this constantly throw in the way ... are part of the problem, not part of the solution.
In a given system, if you declare yourself as male, anytime someone stating they are female has a serious question that you try to answer immediately becomes you trying to hit on them. If you are declared as female and do the same, the innuendoes of lesbianism immediately start. If you are declared as female, and the person asking is male, they may not make you their "girlfriend" right off the bat, but they are far more inclined to read what you have to say than if you were declared male, and significantly more likely to try to interact with you in the future. Me, I just want to pipe in, help out and, if I'm not needed be gone, thanks bye!!
I have "run with the bulls" in a variety of fora on a variety of systems on this nonsense and am more than happy to be as I am here ... unspecified. Females are not threatened by my interaction in a thread of theirs since, by being unspecified, I obviously don't give a shit about their gender and am not a threat. Males are not attracted to me simply because what I say makes sense since, by being unspecified, it's entirely possible I turn them into a laughingstock of their fora if I turn out to be a she-male or whatever you fuckheads like to laugh at other people about most. I don't give a fuck what reasons people have for accepting my advice. I've always given good advice. My only problem has been in being able to take my own when I'm in a situation that warrants it.
If I'm male, I'm somehow "hitting on" any female I try to help. If I'm female, I'm somehow "hitting on" any male I try to help. Where the fuck does someone have to line up to simply be fucking nice without all the bullshit attacjhed to having bothered to do so? Why the fuck can't someone simply give a shit about another human being without something "deeper" being read into it?
