Why do guys use female Avatars?

[Trongersoll]

I tend t think of the person i'm responding to as being their Avatar. I'm sure I've called several guys girls based on their avatars. Are they just trying to confuse me? or are they closet crossdressers?

[Mike Christ]

I'm just showing off my artwork

But some guys are just girlish, just as some women are boyish.  Or maybe they're trollin'

[RicRock]

In video games, I always use the female character, if i'm going to spend hours looking at the ass of a character, I prefer it to be female.

[Mike Christ]

In video games, I always use the female character, if i'm going to spend hours looking at the ass of a character, I prefer it to be female.

This is also the logic I use   Who wants to look at a guy all day?

[Trongersoll]

In video games, I always use the female character, if i'm going to spend hours looking at the ass of a character, I prefer it to be female.

After playing WoW for five years, i get that. I guess in never considered a technical forum roleplaying

[Kouye]

I'm pretty puzzled.
How did you spot mine was a female?

[freethink2013]

In a forum situation I think people use the avatar of a pic they like rather than a pic they identify with a lot of the time.

Generally, if someone has a beautiful woman as their avatar on here 999.999% of the time they are male. They aren't pretending to be female rather you are hoping they are a lady.

[dserrano5]

If mine is to be interpreted as a female avatar, all I have to say is that I actually like HK.

[Luno]

If i was a woman, I'd look like my avatar.

[Wed]

In RPGs I use only female avatars. I dont want to look all day long on a guys ass ;-)

[DiamondCardz]

I'm pretty puzzled.
How did you spot mine was a female?

Thanks, but I'm not sure if I particularly needed a mental image of a female unicorn's...yeah.

OT: I don't know. Speaking of avatars, why do the "defaults" exist, they look really ugly and the newbies flock to them >_>

[Welsh]

I'm pretty puzzled.
How did you spot mine was a female?

Thanks, but I'm not sure if I particularly needed a mental image of a female unicorn's...yeah.

OT: I don't know. Speaking of avatars, why do the "defaults" exist, they look really ugly and the newbies flock to them >_>

I'm too lazy to even change my avatar....

[gmaxwell]

Some of the participants here are pretending to be women specifically because they believe it manipulates how others respond to them.

[VolanicEruptor]

Some of the participants here are pretending to be women specifically because they believe it manipulates how others respond to them.

+1

[Luno]

Being a nerd is hot, being a female nerd would be hotter.

[tspacepilot]

I don't have an avatar.

[viboracecata]

I used to place Jessica Alba's avatar, nothing else just because I love her face and want to see it.

[Zangelbert Bingledack]

I used to not get the point of blowjob porn. Why would I want to see a close-up of some guy's dick? Isn't that kind of gay? But then I realized it was like that guy's dick is your avatar, and you can enjoy it vicariously by pretending it's yours.

Meanwhile, I had a friend who couldn't get the point of lesbian porn, since there's no avatar to pretend is you, except one of the girls...which seems kind of gay. However, I liked it because there is a lot of female flesh to see and no dudes there marring the view. The avatar view never occured to me, I just liked all the T&A on display.

In the same way, I think guys who use female avatars think of their forum browsing experience more like a lesbian scene than a blowjob scene: they want everything to look attractive rather than taking on an identity. Or maybe they view avatars as showing off their sensibilities rather than their identities - a miscommunication of sorts between the two camps - where one sees guys who use female avatars as gay because they construe the avatar as obviously a representation of the poster, while the other sees guys who use male avatars as gay because they construe the avatar as obviously a representation of what the poster finds aesthetically pleasing.

[b!z]

^tl;dr: my avatar is not gay

[Raize]

In video games, I always use the female character, if i'm going to spend hours looking at the ass of a character, I prefer it to be female.

This.

I played every MMO and FPS using male characters till games like WoW and Warhammer and "over the shoulder" FPS games came out. If it's entirely first-person I'll still play as a male, but if I'm going to have to stare at a character for hours, I'd rather it be female.