A few years back I was playing alot of
ad&d online in
irc on
undernet.
The
character I was playing was an extremely
violent (towards
orcs at least) elven
magic user known as Alandra Silverflame... Before I would goto the game channel I'd change my name to ^Alandra-.
I played this everyday for almost six months, it was a totally
amazing experience.
As a man I can say I am very
embarassed by the actions of my fellow
men. I was literally
hounded at times, I received
private chat from both other people in the game and other people who saw me sitting in one of the other channels I frequented. Many times the
chats were
explicit and
very rude without/hardly any preamble. Sometimes they were nice until I didn't
respond back or until
I blew them off. Other times they were insulting and degrading to females from the start. There were a few really nice men, but for the most part I found out that The
male half of the
human race is filled with
egotistical sexually driven
morons.
It truely was a
learning experience and one that caused me to never play another female character
online. I never realized how flusterating it could be to be a
woman online.
Anyone who has had a meeting with a woman he met online needs to
masqurade as a woman for just a month
online. Just to give them an idea of what kind of crap a woman has to put up with
online... it helps put things in perspective and will definetly help you appreciate the level of
dedication a woman has to have to meet
men online.
I really can't feature how much crap a woman would take from a
online dating site.
Mind numbing.
As a side note I asked a friend of mine who is a
female computer geek about her experiences
online... her response was: "I avoid the
idiots... *polishes her ignore button*."