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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|GIRLs]] and even some actual girls, taking advantage of the fact that the internet had a great number of socially awkward males who were easily duped into thinking this girl who was paying attention to them was seriously interested in dating them, if only they 'proved' their affection with gifts and [[
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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See also [[Most Fanfic Writers Are Girls]], [[GIRL]] and [[Cross Player]].
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