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OMG Girlz Don't Exist On Teh Intarweb!
The Escapist has a brilliant article penned by a young woman who has to deal with blatant disbelief at her existence. Why? Because there are no women on the internet. From the article: "This is the story of my internet life. (I'm not quite sure if it's a good or bad thing that I have an internet life, but internet life it is.) I'm a girl, I play games and I exist on the internet. Or so you think. Time after time, I get told I'm not a girl and that I don't exist. It's happened so much that I'm beginning to think that it's true. So, I spend some time getting to know them. Who are these mysterious creatures called girls if they don't exist on the internet? What does this mean for the men of the internet?"
or why he's pretending to be a chick, but everyone knows there are no girls on teh internets.
Women are made from sand, and would we want something made of sand on the internet? If you've ever taken a laptop to the beach you know - sand and computers don't mix.
Note that this initial disbelief may soon be followed by, "OMG BOOBZ!!1!" so caution is advised.
"Men of the Internet"
THERE'S a calendar I wouldn't want for Christmas.
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Hell, my mum is and always has been a heavy Red Alert gamer. Prior to Westwood selling up she played online all the time. The other day I stumbled across an old spreadsheet where she'd been collecting player stats.
It doesn't really matter unless you're hitting someone up for something sexual. That's the nature of it, anonymous, with handles designed solely to put continuity into the communication. We're all just text, judged solely by what we say.
But yea, there are girls on the internet, girls on slashdot, girls in WoW. There seems to be a minority of them that identify themselves as such, but hey, that goes for everything: gender, race, religion, etc.
It rarely matters. I've been the only guy in guilds/clans, one of a handful, one of many, etc. Never find this out or really care until enough bonds have formed through the anonymity to actually give a rats ass about the other's actual real life personas.
And of course, the internet is also populated mostly by people that use the anonymity to be jackasses. Post your pics! Mexican Jewlizard! yada yada. You get to see people as they are, socially, with basically no consequences or prejudgements.
It's a wild, wild place, and we likes it like that.
The key to the enjoyment of pop music is to replace any instance of "love" with "C.H.U.D."
I think their version is far more amusing.
I used up all my sick days, so I'm calling in dead.
Just no girls on slashdot.
-Barkeep, a draft of your most hazardous brew, for the world is slowly stepping into focus, and I don't like what I see.
Mostly Men Online Role Playing Girls.
How we know is more important than what we know.
There's women ALL over internet, it's just that they all live inside the porn sites that the men visit.
What a hypocrite you are--you only get to be picky with your women because you have such a low uid.
English is easier said than done.
pix plz.
With a name like 'Whitney Butts' you just know thats a guy!
But he's got to send those pix first. Err, she.
Windows is like decaf - it tastes like the real thing, but it won't get you through the day.
EVERYONE knows that girls only exist on Xanga and MySpace...
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We're posting stories about how a girl complains no one believes she's a girl...a girl with a really, really horrid looking website. Is it that slow a newsday? Didn't Microsoft do anything wrong today?
Life is hard, and the world is cruel
...and her name is John Romero.
The Internet:
Where men are men, women are men, 13 year Old girls are FBI agents.
"The test of the morality of a society is what it does for it's children." -Dietrich Bonhoeffer
its not that we dont believe there are women on the internet, its that we dont believe the people who claim to be women, women are like deer, you see them from your car window when your driving through the countryside, or sometimes - once in a while - you hit one head on and it smashes your car up.
I play FFXI (Final Fantasy MMORPG) and at least half of my friends list is female, and over half of the "linkshell" (like a guild thingy) must be female.
79% of my MSN contact list is female.
My MOTHER, who is an eBay queen and 'leet warez haxor' is, so I'm told, a female.
My three best geek pals (web design guru, game master, anime queen) happen to be female.
Not to mention my little sister, who has a veritable LEGION of friends who are constantly online.
I wonder what internet this daft tart lives on? Or is she just perpetuating a sterotype that no longer applies just to get a moment in the spotlight?
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