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{{quote|''"The Internet, where the [[Internet Tough Guy|men are 12]], the [[GIRL|women are men]], and the [[Paedo Hunt|children are the FBI]]."''|'''Anonymous''' }}
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As the Internet grew, women became more common. Sadly, men pretending to be women became even ''more'' common as well; it soon became obvious that announcing you were female online (and thus a geek girl) was a surefire way to win lots of attention and accommodation from other users, even to the point of them being tricked into mailing gifts, cash, or performing other favors. This led to anyone claiming to be female to instantly be accosted with demands of "proof" (eventually codified as "Tits or GTFO").
Of course, proving you are female online is something of a conundrum, since any pictures or voice you present as proof can just as easily have come from a sister, girlfriend, or random
This was a lot of fun for real women. Even a vague mention of a boyfriend or husband as an aside would get these righteous Internet College Males screeching in rage that you were an evil [[Attention Whore]] pretending to be female to get things. Girls naturally responded to this by ''[[Sweet Polly Oliver|pretending to be men]]'' just to avoid the verbal harassment and righteous screeching.
Part of the paranoia was [[Justified Trope|justified]] on the ''early'' internet by both [[GIRL
Nowadays, the lingering sentiment can only be seen as a [[Memetic Mutation|meme]] in [[Image Boards|certain corners of the Internet]] and in people's assumption that anyone they meet online is male unless obviously otherwise. You can still see this to some degree in the gaming community, but that too is fading with time. With the advent of Voice over IP it's pretty obvious who's female (at least physically) as your voice will "give you away". It's still good to keep in mind that some people [[Cassandra Truth|will not take your advice seriously]] and that sometimes the software distorts or changes the voice so that people will question your sex regardless.
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== Newspaper Comic ==
* A variation is used in ''[[FoxTrot]]''. Jason meets a fellow [[RPG
** Peter Fox was similarly afflicted, as he, when learning from the family computer that a pop-star girl wants to know more about Peter Fox, Peter suspects that it was Jason and Marcus trying to prank him, causing him to type a rather threatening message. {{spoiler|Turns out it actually was a pop-star girl who wanted to know more about Peter Fox, and not only that, but she closed the blinds and was trying to call the police thanks to Peter's threat.}}
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